SB 490

Under current law, an owner of certain motor vehicles, including an

automobile, registering the motor vehicle with the Department of Transportation

(DOT) who submits a statement certifying that he or she is a person with a disability

that limits or impairs the ability to walk may receive special registration plates for

the motor vehicle that entitle the person to certain parking privileges. For the

purposes of the vehicle registration provisions, the term "owner" includes a lessee

who leases a vehicle for a period of one year or more. Also under current law, a state

resident registering certain motor vehicles, including an automobile, with DOT who

submits a statement certifying that the motor vehicle is leased to a person with a

disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk may receive special registration

plates for the motor vehicle that entitle the lessee to certain parking privileges. DOT,

however, may not issue plates under this latter provision after January 1, 1998.

Under this bill, the provision allowing a person who leases a vehicle to a person

with a disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk to obtain special

registration plates entitling the person with a disability who leases the vehicle to

certain parking privileges is repealed. The provision allowing an owner to obtain

special registration plates entitling the owner, if he or she has a disability that limits

or impairs the ability to walk, to certain parking privileges is unchanged.

For further information, see the

Notes

provided by the Law Revision

Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.