(A) Any other provision to the contrary notwithstanding, a motor vehicle bearing a decal in its front windshield issued by the County Clerk pursuant to appropriate county ordinances for handicapped persons, when operated by a handicapped person or when transporting a handicapped person, may be parked in a designated handicapped parking place, or when parked in a metered parking space may be parked for two hours for no fee, or when parked where any parking limit is imposed may be parked for two hours in excess of the parking limit. The motor vehicle may be parked in a loading zone for that period of time necessary to permit entrance or exit of the handicapped person to or from the parked vehicle, but in no circumstances longer than 30 minutes.
(B) This section shall not permit parking in a "no stopping" or "no parking" zone nor where parking is prohibited for the purpose of creating a fire lane or to accommodate heavy traffic during morning, afternoon, or evening hours, nor permit a motor vehicle to be parked in such a manner as to constitute a traffic hazard.
(C) No person shall park in a designated handicapped parking area in a motor vehicle not displaying either a handicapped auto registration plate as provided in KRS 186.042 or out-of-state handicapped registration plate on the rear of the vehicle unless he displays on the dashboard of his motor vehicle a special parking placard issued to the handicapped. No person shall park a vehicle displaying a special parking placard in a designated handicapped parking area when such vehicle is not being used for the benefit of a handicapped person.
Penalty, see § 72.99