New York Laws
Article 32 - Stopping, Standing, and Parking
1203-H - Metered Parking Waiver for Certain Disabilities.

(a) are residents of New York state; and
(b) are residents of the city, town or village in which such issuing
agent is located, except that, an issuing agent, in his or her
discretion, may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is not
a resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent is
located where such person resides in a city, town, or village in which
the governing body has not appointed an issuing agent; and
(c) hold a valid driver's license issued by New York state; and
(d) are severely disabled persons, as defined in subdivision four of
section four hundred four-a of this chapter, whose severe disability, as
certified by a licensed physician, limits one or more of the following:
(i) fine motor control in both hands;
(ii) ability to reach or access a parking meter due to use of a
wheelchair or other ambulatory device; or
(iii) ability to reach a height of forty-two inches from the ground
due to the lack of finger, hand or upper extremity strength or mobility.
4. For the purposes of this section, such waiver permit shall be for
use exclusively in a vehicle when the person to whom it has been issued
is driving and unaccompanied by a person able to put payment into a
parking meter. Such permit shall not be transferable and shall be
forfeited if used by any other person. Any abuse by any person to whom
such waiver permit has been issued shall be sufficient cause for
revocation of said permit.
5. The special metered parking waiver permit issued by the
commissioner shall be recognized statewide and is the only valid permit,
other than a special vehicle identification parking permit issued by
cities having a population of one million or more pursuant to paragraph
fifteen of subdivision a of section twenty-nine hundred three of the New
York city charter, for the waiver of metered parking fees for certain
severely disabled drivers.

6. A person who knowingly and willfully, with the intent to deceive,
makes a false statement or gives information which such individual knows
to be false to a public official to obtain a metered parking waiver
permit in addition to any other penalty provided by law, shall be
subject to a civil penalty of not less than two hundred fifty dollars
nor more than one thousand dollars.