(A) Designated parking. Certain parking spaces within the confines of the city shall be designated for use by handicapped persons’ vehicles only and will be posted with appropriate signs to that effect.
(B) Use of designated handicapped parking. The use of designated handicapped parking locations, duly posted and signed shall to that effect, be open to any vehicle which bears the appropriate handicapped Illinois Registration Plate issued by the Secretary of State for the State of Illinois, or a valid handicapped parking permit issued by another governmental agency or which bears a handicapped card furnished in accordance with 625 ILCS 5/11-1301.1 et seq. furnished by the city.
(C) Application for state handicapped registration plate. The issuance of a state handicapped motor vehicle registration plate shall be made with the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois at any facility provided and approved for that purpose by the Secretary of State.
(625 ILCS 5/11-1301.2)
(D) Penalty. Any vehicle parked in violation of this chapter in a posted designated handicapped space which does not bear an state handicapped registration plate, or a valid handicapped parking permit issued by another governmental agency of a city handicapped registration card will be ticketed and the vehicle will be removed in accordance with departmental policies and in accordance with 625 ILCS 5/11-1302. The registered owner of the vehicle as ascertained by the registration plates of the vehicle will be presumed to be in control of the vehicle and will be fined $100. The same registered owner will be held liable for the cost of removal of the vehicle and must pay that cost, plus storage charges, if any, prior to the release of the vehicle.
(E) Handicapped parking areas. Those places designated as “handicapped parking spaces” are listed in Ch. 79, Schd. II.
(1999 Code, § 24-6-5) Penalty, see § 10.99