Bill Text: NC S477 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Free Handicap Placard/Certain Organizations
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S477 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-S477-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
S 1
SENATE BILL 477
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Short Title: Free Handicap Placard/Certain Organizations. |
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Sponsors: |
Senator Pate (Primary Sponsor). |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate |
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March 30, 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize qualifying organizations to receive a free handicapped windshield placard for each vehicle used to transport handicapped persons.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑37.6(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) Handicapped Drivers
and Passengers; Distinguishing Placards. – Handicapped Drivers and Passengers;
Distinguishing Placards. – A handicapped person may apply for the issuance of a
removable windshield placard or a temporary removable windshield placard. Upon
request, one additional placard may be issued to applicants who do not have a
distinguishing license plate. Any organization which, as determined and
certified by the State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency, regularly transports
handicapped persons may also apply. These organizations may receive one
removable windshield placardplacard, free of charge, for each
transporting vehicle. When the removable windshield or temporary removable
windshield placard is properly displayed, all parking rights and privileges
extended to vehicles displaying a distinguishing license plate issued pursuant
to subsection (b) shall apply. The removable windshield placard or the
temporary removable windshield placard shall be displayed so that it may be
viewed from the front and rear of the vehicle by hanging it from the front
windshield rearview mirror of a vehicle using a parking space allowed for
handicapped persons. When there is no inside rearview mirror, or when the
placard cannot reasonably be hung from the rearview mirror by the handicapped
person, the placard shall be displayed on the driver's side of the dashboard. A
removable windshield placard placed on a motorized wheelchair or similar
vehicle shall be displayed in a clearly visible location. The Division shall
establish procedures for the issuance of the placards andand, except
as otherwise provided in this subsection, may charge a fee sufficient to
pay the actual cost of issuance, but in no event less than five dollars ($5.00)
per placard. The Division shall issue a placard registration card with each
placard issued to a handicapped person. The registration card shall bear the
name of the person to whom the placard is issued, the person's address, the
placard number, and an expiration date. The registration card shall be in the
vehicle in which the placard is being used, and the person to whom the placard
is issued shall be the operator or a passenger in the vehicle in which the
placard is displayed."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to removable windshield placards issued or renewed on or after that date.
