Disabled veteran's license plate-handicapped parking.

WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0034

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0077

Disabled veteran's license plate
-handicapped parking
.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Esquibel, K., Botten, Byrd, McOmie and Moniz and Senator(s) Burns, Cooper, Johnson, Meier and Nutting

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
motor vehicles; authorizing persons who have been issued disabled veteran
'
s license plates to park in handicapped parking spaces as specified;
conforming
provisions;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 31
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2
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213(c), (d)(ii)(intro), (iii)
(intro)
and (h)
(intro)

is
amended to read:

31
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2
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213.

Department to supply registration certificates, plates and stickers; removable windshield placards.

(c)

The department shall issue a special tamper resistant removable windshield placard to an applicant submitting a letter from his physician stating the applicant has a disability that is expected to last a minimum of twelve (12) months which limits or impairs the ability to walk, or to any person responsible for the regular transportation of eligible persons with a disability that is expected to last a minimum of twelve (12) months which limits or impairs the ability to walk who submits such a letter on behalf of an eligible person. The placard shall display the international symbol of access. When a vehicle is parked in an area reserved for the handicapped, the placard shall be suspended from the rearview mirror inside the vehicle, so as to be in plain view of any person looking through the front windshield of the vehicle from the sidewalk or roadside. For motor vehicles which do not have rearview mirrors, the placard shall be displayed on the dashboard of the parked vehicle, on the side nearest the curb or roadside. Upon request, one (1) additional placard shall be issued to applicants who have not been issued special license plates.
In lieu of
the
display
of
the placard as specified in this subsection,
a vehicle may park in
a
space reserved for handicapped parking in accordance with W.S. 31
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5
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501 if a special license
plate
issued for the vehicle is displayed on the vehicle in accordance with
W.S. 31
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2
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205
.

(d)

As used in this section:

(ii)

"Eligible person" means a person

who has been issued a disabled veteran's license
plate
in accordance with W.S. 31
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2
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215, or a person
with disabilities which limit or impair the ability to walk as determined by a licensed physician, including:

(iii)

"Special license plate" means a license plate that

was issued
in accordance with
W.S. 31
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2
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215, or a license plate that
displays the international symbol of access:

(h)

Effective January 1, 1993, any person eligible for a special placard under subsection (c) of this section may apply to the county treasurer for special license plates for a motor vehicle owned by that person.

Except as authorized under W.S. 31
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215, s
pecial license plates shall not be issued to any person who is eligible only for a temporary removable windshield placard under subsection (g) of this section. Special plates issued under this subsection are subject to the following:

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 20
11
.

(END)

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