Yes, a disabled-person placard trumps residential parking requirement

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Q. In our vicinity determination are posted signs, “NO STOPPING ANYTIME but with valid permit.” The metropolis issues residential parking permits if a definite percent of residents connected the thoroughfare hold to them and wage a fee. Well, determination is simply a conveyance that is parked present regular with a handicap placard. The conveyance does not beryllium to immoderate idiosyncratic who lives successful the tract (so helium oregon she doesn’t person a residential parking permit). The operator has been seen walking either into the tract oregon from the tract to wherever they live. Is it ineligible to utilized the handicap placard successful this manner?

– B. Cagle, Santa Ana

A. Probably.

State instrumentality allows those with a valid disabled-person licence sheet oregon placard to parkland nether conditions that others cannot.

And this is 1 of those instances if the placard is being utilized properly, said Cpl. Sonia Rojo, the spokeswoman for the Santa Ana Police Department. She added that if anyone believes the handicap credential is not valid, a telephone to Santa Ana P.D. connected a non-emergency enactment volition get a postulation officer, if available, to cheque it out.

There are countless disabilities that warrant the privilege, and it tin beryllium hard to archer by show if a idiosyncratic should bask it. A aesculapian nonrecreational indispensable motion disconnected connected a operator oregon a rider getting specified a sheet oregon placard; determination are restrictions to guarantee the disabled idiosyncratic is benefiting from the sheet oregon placard.

Besides being allowed to parkland successful handicap parking spaces, and wherever residential permits are successful play, those decently utilizing the plates oregon placards can:

— Park alongside a bluish curb, dissimilar others.

— Park alongside a greenish curb, which carries a clip limit, for arsenic agelong arsenic desired.

— Park for escaped connected a nationalist thoroughfare with metered parking.

Q. Honk, I request your fatherly advice. A mates of weeks agone I received my caller registration sticker successful the message and enactment it connected my motortruck the aforesaid day. Problem is … the sticker was for my Chevy Corvair. Not my Chevy truck. Oops. I’ll ruin the sticker attempting to region it.I don’t privation to fib and assertion I ne'er got it, hoping for a escaped replacement. Also, I would alternatively not discarded immoderate officer’s clip with a postulation halt and having to nutrient my valid registration. Nor bash I privation to swap the motortruck sheet to my car to spell to a car show. I cognize you’re laughing astir my mistake – arsenic I am. Hope you tin assistance maine out.

– Greg Czopek, Long Beach

A. Honk is laughing with you – not astatine you. A fewer weeks back, helium was disquieted helium had made the aforesaid mistake portion tending to his fleet.

He popped your question up to the Department of Motor Vehicles’ office successful Sacramento and was told you simply person to fork implicit 23 bucks and get a replacement registration sticker.

Greg, you tin bash it online astatine the authoritative site, dmv.ca.gov – don’t fuss with a backstage concern that charges an added fee. Or you tin spell done the Automobile Club of Southern California if you are a member.

You tin besides sojourn a DMV kiosk for specified a task; among the places you tin find 1 is successful immoderate market stores. For locations, hunt for “kiosks” connected the DMV website oregon Google “DMV kiosks.” The instrumentality volition spit retired your caller sticker.

Interestingly, Greg, each registration sticker has a unsocial fig “that tin beryllium identified (with) that car,” said Tino Olivera, an serviceman and spokesperson based successful the California Highway Patrol’s Santa Ana presumption house.

To inquire Honk questions, scope him astatine honk@ocregister.com. He lone answers those that are published. To spot Honk online: ocregister.com/tag/honk. Twitter: @OCRegisterHonk

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