(A) Parking with a special parking permit for persons with disabilities. As set forth in KRS 189.456(7), it shall be unlawful for any operator of a motor vehicle to park, stop, or permit any motor vehicle to stand in a parking space designated and reserved for persons with disabilities unless the motor vehicle displays an auto registration plate designating the vehicle licensed as belonging to a person with disabilities or exhibiting a license plate issued to a disabled veteran, or exhibiting the special parking permit for persons with disabilities. The motor vehicle belonging to a person with disabilities may be parked in a loading zone for that period of time necessary to permit entrance or exit of the person with disabilities to or from the parked vehicle, but in no circumstances longer than thirty (30) minutes.
(B) Process for residential parking for persons with disabilities on public streets.
(1) From time to time, the City of Alexandria may designate reserved parking on publicly-owned streets, where there is on-street parking, so as to accommodate persons with disabilities as defined in KRS 189.456. Interested persons shall file an application with the Alexandria Police Department for such a parking space.
(2) Such requests shall be reviewed by the Alexandria Public Works Director if it is found that the person making the application has obtained the required special parking permit for persons with disabilities from the County Clerk, and that local ordinances or state statutes do not prohibit parking on the street, he or she shall designate a reserved parking space for persons with disabilities in the front, rear or side of the residence of the applicant if there is no off-street parking accommodating the applicant's residence, or if the off-street parking that accommodates the residence is (in the Public Works Director's opinion) unusable or impractical for use by the person with disabilities.
(3) There shall be a one-time fee of one hundred dollars ($100) for the establishment of the reserved handicapped parking space permitted pursuant to this section to help defray the cost of signage and processing. Such a fee will be collected at the time of application. Should the application be denied, the applicant shall be reimbursed the one hundred dollars ($100).
(4) Designated parking spaces cannot be more than twenty (20) feet in length.
(5) The person shall be subject to all other local ordinances and state statutes governing the parking of vehicles on the street where the reserved space has been designated including but not limited to the provisions of KRS 189.456 and 186.042.
(6) The person making the application pursuant to this section shall be required to register annually with the City Police Department within five (5) days of the anniversary of the date in which the reserved parking space for persons with disabilities is first designated. Failure to renew a designated parking space shall be grounds to remove the relevant disabled/handicapped parking sign in addition to its status of the partitioned roadway.
(Ord. 14-85, passed 10-24-85; Am. Ord. 2023-01, passed 2-2-23) Penalty, see § 72.99