[Adopted 6-15-1982 as L.L. No. 1-1982]
This Part 2 shall be known and cited as the
"Town of Bedford Local Law No. 1-1982 Regulating Parking for the Handicapped."
The Town of Bedford recognizes that the regulation
of parking to facilitate the needs of handicapped or severely disabled
citizens is significant and necessary as an aid to those citizens
specifically, and is also significant and necessary generally, for
the health, safety and welfare of all of the citizens of the Town
of Bedford, and this Part 2 is intended to provide such control and
regulation.
As used herein, the following words shall have
the meanings below set forth:
Any person having any one or more of the following impairments,
disabilities or conditions which are permanent in nature:
Has limited or no use of one or both lower limbs.
Has a neuromuscular dysfunction which severely
limits mobility.
Has a physical or mental impairment or condition
which is other than those specified above, but is of such nature as
to impose unusual hardship in utilization of public transportation
facilities, and such condition is certified by a physician duly licensed
to practice medicine in this state as constituting an equal degree
of disability (specifying the particular condition) so as to prevent
such person from getting around without greater difficulty.
A blind person.
Those specific parking permits that the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles has distributed to the Town of Bedford, which permit entitles
handicapped or severely disabled persons to park in any area of the
Town of Bedford which has been so designated by the State of New York,
County of Westchester or Town of Bedford as a place for parking for
handicapped or severely disabled persons. The design of such permits
shall be as determined by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, and
such permits shall be issued upon application by any handicapped or
severely disabled person who is a resident of the Town of Bedford.
[Amended 7-18-1989; 5-17-2005 by L.L. No. 8-2005]
Any person who stops, stands or parks a motor
vehicle in a space clearly marked for use by the handicapped without
displaying a special municipal parking permit or whose motor vehicle
is not registered in accordance with § 404-a of the Vehicle and
Traffic Law of the State of New York and is not actually being used
for the transportation of a handicapped or severely disturbed person
shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $100 for the first offense,
by a fine not exceeding $200 for the second offense and by a fine
not exceeding $500 for the third and any subsequent offenses.
