A driver may park in a space reserved for people with disabilities if the vehicle displays license plates for the disabled:
- Regardless of who is in the vehicle
- Only if the driver is disabled
- And is carrying a disabled person named on the registration ✓
- If someone in the driver's immediate family is disabled
Answer: C. And is carrying a disabled person named on the registration
You may park in a space reserved for people with disabilities only if the vehicle has disabled plates or a permit and is carrying the person with a disability named on the registration or permit.
Why this is the answer
The manual treats reserved parking as a legal requirement that gives motorists with disabilities safe and equal access, and it limits who may use those spaces. Having disabled plates or a permit is only half of it: the person who received that plate or permit has to be inside the vehicle, and the vehicle has to be in use to transport that person. So the plates by themselves do not open up the space, and the person using it must be the one the registration or permit actually names.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Regardless of who is in the vehicle — The vehicle still needs disabled plates or a permit, and the person those plates or that permit were issued to must be riding in it, so who is aboard is never irrelevant.
- B. Only if the driver is disabled — The manual does not require the driver in particular to have a disability; it requires that the person who received the plates or permit be in the vehicle, and that person may be a passenger.
- D. If someone in the driver's immediate family is disabled — A family relationship by itself grants nothing, because the space may only be used to transport the person with a disability described in the registration or permit.
Remember it
Two things travel together: the plate or permit, and the person it was issued to riding along. Take away either one and the space is off limits.