(A) When a motor vehicle which is being operated by or for the benefit of a handicapped person is displaying an automobile registration plate as provided in KRS 186.042, an out-of-state handicapped registration plate, a handicapped parking permit issued by any veterans’ administration hospital or a special parking permit issued to a handicapped person as prescribed in KRS 189.460, the motor vehicle may be parked in a designated handicapped parking place.
(B) When parked in a space where a parking limit is imposed, the vehicle may be parked for a period of two hours in excess of the legal parking period permitted, except where ordinances or police regulations prohibit parking on a highway for the purpose of creating a fire lane or where the ordinance or police regulation provides for the accommodation of heavy traffic during morning, afternoon or evening hours or where the motor vehicle is parked in such a manner as to clearly be a traffic hazard.
(C) No person shall park in a designated handicapped parking area in a motor vehicle not displaying either a handicapped automobile registration plate as provided in KRS 186.042 or an out-of-state handicapped registration plate on the rear of the vehicle unless he or she displays on the rear view mirror of his or her motor vehicle a special parking permit issued to the handicapped. No person shall park a vehicle displaying a special parking permit in a designated handicapped parking area when such vehicle is not being used for the benefit of a handicapped person.
(D) Parking spaces for disabled people shall be at least 96 inches wide and shall have an adjacent access aisle 60 inches wide, minimum. Parking access aisles shall be part of the accessible route to the building or facility entrance. Two accessible parking spaces may share a common access aisle. Parked vehicle overhangs shall not reduce the clear width of an accessible circulation route.
(E) (1) Accessible parking spaces shall be designated as reserved for the disabled by a sign showing the international symbol of accessibility.
(2) Such signs shall be above grade.
(1991 Code, § 12-44) (Ord. 990-210, passed 4-9-1990) Penalty, see § 70.99