Allows severely disabled individuals to apply for renewal of a parking permit for a handicapped person without providing an updated certification or additional medical documents.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1900--A
Cal. No. 774
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, CHU, FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
portation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accord-
ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said
committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third
reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the
order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
severely disabled individuals to renew parking permits without provid-
ing an updated medical certification or additional medical documents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 1203-a of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 1996,
3 is amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows:
4 (i) any resident of New York state who is a severely disabled person,
5 as defined in subdivision [three] four of section four hundred four-a of
6 this chapter, upon application of such person or such person's parent or
7 guardian, provided, however, that an issuing agent shall issue permits
8 only to residents of the city, town or village in which such issuing
9 agent is located, except that, an issuing agent, in [his or her] their
10 discretion, may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is not
11 a resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent is
12 located where such person resides in a city, town, or village in which
13 the governing body has not appointed an issuing agent; and an issuing
14 agent, in [his or her] their discretion, may issue a temporary special
15 vehicle identification parking permit, as authorized by subdivision
16 three of this section, to a person who is temporarily unable to ambulate
17 without the aid of an assisting device, as certified by a physician, who
18 resides in a city, town, or village in which the issuing agent does not
19 issue temporary special vehicle identification parking permits, or who
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 is not a resident of the United States and is temporarily visiting the
2 state; or
3 1-a. Any resident of New York state who is a severely disabled person,
4 as defined in subdivision four of section four hundred four-a of this
5 chapter, shall not be required to provide an updated medical certif-
6 ication or additional medical documents upon application for renewal of
7 a permit issued pursuant to this section. For the purposes of this
8 subdivision, the term "permit" shall not include a temporary special
9 vehicle identification parking permit issued pursuant to this section to
10 a person who is temporarily unable to ambulate without the aid of an
11 assisting device.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
