§ 72.20 HANDICAPPED PARKING.

   (A)   Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or when in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, no person shall park a vehicle within a handicapped parking area without proper permit.

   (B)   The City Manager shall have the authority to designate parking spaces for the use of authorized vehicles transporting handicapped persons, and to place signs and/or other markings restricting the parking in spaces to authorized vehicles so transporting handicapped persons.

   (C)   A vehicle which has been issued handicap registration plates as provided for by law, or which is equipped with a decal or device as provided for by law, shall be considered an authorized vehicle.

   (D)   If a handicapped person has not obtained handicap registration plates or a decal or device as provided for above, the City Clerk, upon presentation of a certified statement by a licensed physician that the person is unable to walk 200 feet or more unassisted by another person or without the aid of a walker, crutches, braces, prosthetic device or a wheelchair or without great difficulty or discomfort due to the following impairments: neurologic, orthopedic, respirator, cardiac, arthritic disorder, blindness, or the loss of function or absence of a limb or limbs, may issue a temporary permit to the handicapped person for a period not to exceed three months, which shall allow parking in spaces reserved for handicapped parking in the city.

   (E)   Parking privileges granted by this section are strictly limited to the persons to whom special registration plates, special decals or devices have been issued by the city or the state and to qualified operators acting under his or her express direction while the disabled person is present.

   (F)   Any person violating § 72.20 shall be fined as set forth in § 72.99.

(1990 Code, § 28-276) (Ord. 79-690, passed 9-17-1979; Ord. 81-817, passed 7-27-1981; Ord. 81-826, passed 10-19-1981; Ord. 84-932, passed 2-6-1984; Ord. 85-1022, passed 7-1-1985; Ord. 92-1451, passed 5-4-1992; Ord. 96-1664, passed 2-19-1996; Ord. 2000-1954, passed 5-1-2000; Ord. 06-3151, passed 9-18-2006) Penalty, see § 72.99

Statutory reference:

   Handicap parking, see ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §§ 11-1301.1 et seq.