Number: RS22697
Title: Federal Law on Parking Privileges for Persons with Disabilities
Authors: Carol Toland, American Law Division 
Abstract: State law generally governs parking privileges for people with disabilities. However, federal regulations offer a uniform system of parking privileges, which includes model definitions and rules regarding license plates and placards, parking and parking space design, and interstate reciprocity. The federal government encourages states to adopt this uniform system. As a result, most states have incorporated at least some aspects of the uniform regulations into their handicapped parking laws. This report describes the federal role in parking privileges law, outlines the uniform system's model rules, and briefly discusses state responses to the model federal rules.
Pages: 6
Date: November 10, 2008