Here in CA, it’s a $250 fine if you do not have a handicap card hanging from your inside mirror; or you have a license plate which has the handicap logo.
If there were any fines involved - then perhaps the violators would not be so eager to park there. But, I thought this was a federal fine; so it should be the same all over the country.
I parked in a handicapped spot of a business that was closed for the day in 1985
It was a town hall, closed, it was an old school, we had our Tae Kwon Do classes in the old gym
I got a $250 ticket for parking in a handicapped spot for a closed business!
That got me
Oh, God, please not a Federal fine. This is so much a state issue. We don't need the federal government so deeply involved in these things.
Another point, not necessarily to you: who says the parking interloper didn't also have a handicap placard? They hand those things out like candy. There's an Obama voter, old white guy with union and Obama bumper stickers, down the street from me who has permanent handicap on his license plate, yet he can walk four blocks to the dog park and back with no difficulty.
PS, the fines in California are upwards of 400.00, and they are mandatory, meaning that you can't plead to a lesser offense.
Handicapped Parking is frequently abused. A colleague drove her car with her disabled husband’s tab dangling from her mirror and parked at the WH reserved spot. I was mortified.
Some public parking garages have ‘free’ handicapped spaces while everyone else has to pay big bucks to park. All those parking are at work.
Don’t understand why parking spaces in malls- which are separated by a few feet are reserved - users still have to navigate to the stores etc.,
There should be some allowances for persons who are physically impaired, if only temporarily, with a window sticker from a physician.
It’s 250 dollars here in Ohio too.250 is a minimum,the fine can go to 500.