[Added by Ord. No. 90-12; amended 10-21-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07; 3-16-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-04]
It shall be unlawful for a vehicle not displaying a license
plate, decal or special parking permit issued under § 46.2-731,
46.2-739 or 46.2-1238 of the Code of Virginia of 1950,[1] as amended to date, to be parked in a parking space reserved
for the handicapped on public property or on privately owned parking
areas open to the public. Any disabled person, vehicle owner, or volunteer
for an institution or organization to which disabled parking license
plates, organizational removable windshield placards, permanent windshield
placards, or temporary removable windshield placards are issued or
any person to whom disabled parking license plates have been issued
under Subsection B of § 46.2-739 shall be allowed to park
the vehicle on which such license plates or placards are displayed
for up to four hours in parking zones restricted as to length of parking
time permitted.
[1]
Editor's Note: Section 46.2-1238 was repealed by Acts
1994, c. 866.
A summons or parking ticket for the offense may be issued by
law enforcement officers and other uniformed personnel employed by
the City to enforce parking regulations without the necessity of a
warrant being obtained by the owner of the private parking area.
Parking spaces reserved for the handicapped shall be identified
by above-grade signs.
Violation of this article shall be punishable by a fine of $100
and the vehicle being towed.
