SB32 Alabama 2011 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Motor vehicles, handicapped parking placards and parking space signs, disability further defined, restricting access to public transportation prohibited, use of bollards authorized, municipality authorized to deputize persons for issuing tickets, Secs. 32-6-231, 32-6-233.1 am'd. (2011-20106)

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Existing law requires a person who uses handicapped parking to have a disability</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would further require the person to have a physical disability that impedes mobility in order for a person to use handicapped parking</p><p class="bill_description"> Existing law provides for the issuance of removable windshield placards to individuals who are disabled</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would authorize the Commissioner of the Department of Revenue to require the removable windshield placard to have printed on it a photograph of the person to whom the placard was issued</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would authorize the commissioner to implement a fee for the cost of a photo placard</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would prohibit parking a motor vehicle so as to restrict access to public transportation under certain conditions</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow municipalities to deputize trained persons to issue parking tickets to persons who illegally park in a handicapped parking space</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would authorize the use of bollards in the access aisle next to a handicapped parking space</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 32-6-231 and 32-6-233.1 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to handicapped parking placards and parking space signs; to further require that a person using handicapped parking have a physical disability that impedes mobility; to authorize the Commissioner of the Department of Revenue to require the removable windshield placard to have printed on it a photograph of the person to whom the placard was issued; to authorize the commissioner to implement a fee for the cost of a photo placard; to prohibit parking a motor vehicle so as to restrict access to public transportation under certain conditions; to allow municipalities to deputize trained persons under certain conditions; and to authorize the use of bollards. </p>

Subjects

Motor Vehicles