Wilton Police to Conduct Handicap Parking Campaign

From The Wilton Police Department.

Beginning Wednesday November 1, 2017 and through November 19, 2017 the Wilton Police Department will be conducting a campaign that strategically focuses on handicap parking violations. The campaign will be two-fold. First, it will involve education. Local property owners will be educated on the proper marking of handicap spaces. In addition, the public will be educated on the law as it pertains to handicap parking and the usage of a validly issued handicap placard. Second, the campaign will involve enforcement of handicap parking violations throughout the Town of Wilton.

The law specifies that it does not allow a state resident with a disability to park in an area that is reserved for handicap parking if he or she does not display the special plate or placard on or in their vehicle. Handicap placards and vehicles bearing a special license plate may not use a handicap parking space unless the vehicle is being driven by or carrying a passenger to whom the placard or plate were issued.

People who have been issued a handicap placard must display it as follows:

1. The placard must be hung from the front windshield rearview mirror when using a
handicap parking space.
2. If there is no rearview mirror, the placard must be placed in clear view on the
dashboard.

Connecticut General Statute 14-253a is enforceable on public and private property and states:

Any person who parks a motor vehicle in a designated parking spot reserved for exclusive use by blind persons or persons with disabilities AND does not display either a “special license plate, a license plate displaying the international symbol of access, a “removable windshield placard,” or a placard that is the same as a removable windshield placard except that the international symbol of access appears on a red background is guilty of an infraction.