A driver may park in a space reserved for people with disabilities if the vehicle displays the proper license plates:
- Regardless of who is in the vehicle.
- And only if the driver is disabled.
- And is carrying the disabled person named on the registration. ✓
- And someone in the driver's immediate family is disabled.
Answer: C. And is carrying the disabled person named on the registration.
A vehicle may park in a disability space only with the proper plates or permit and while it is carrying the disabled person named on the registration or permit.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says reserved disability spaces can be used only with disability plates or a permit, and only when the person who received them is in the vehicle. It also says the vehicle must be transporting the person with disabilities described in the registration or permit. That means having the plates is not enough by itself; the qualifying disabled person must actually be riding in the vehicle.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Regardless of who is in the vehicle. — The plates or permit alone are not enough, because the disabled person they belong to must also be in the vehicle.
- B. And only if the driver is disabled. — The rule does not require the driver to be disabled; it requires the person named on the registration or permit to be in the vehicle.
- D. And someone in the driver's immediate family is disabled. — A disability in the driver's immediate family does not qualify unless that person is the one named on the registration or permit and is in the vehicle.
Remember it
Think plates or permit plus the person they belong to riding along.