Handicap Parking Permits
| Persons with disabilities not as severe as those
qualifying for a Handicap license plate, but still serious enough to
qualify to use handicap parking spaces, have been given permits
(placards) to
display for this purpose. Beginning sometime in the 1970s these permits
were made on motorcycle license plate blanks and were displayed on the
dashboard of the recipient’s vehicle. (Interestingly, the DMV
publication New Mexico License Plates - 1984 Edition states
that these placards were to be displayed on the vehicle's sun visor, but
no information was given as to how they might be fastened there.
And during the two decades that they were in use, there was never a
confirmed sighting of them being placed anywhere except on the
dashboard.) The motorcycle size permits were
later replaced by blue “hang-tags” which are to be hung from the rear
view mirror when the vehicle is parked in a handicap space. But the
similarity in size and color of the earlier motorcycle-plate-size
permits has caused countless unknowing persons to falsely claim that
they are handicap license plates for motorcycles. They are not.
They have nothing whatsoever to do with the registration or licensing of
any motor vehicles—and particularly not motorcycles. To read the
full DMV description of these placards and their use, click
here to see the
New Mexico License Plates - 1984 Edition pamphlet, and scroll
down to page 14. |
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| Handicap Parking Hang Tag Permit Sometime around the year 2000 the metal dashboard parking permits were replaced with laminated hang tags which are hung from the rear view mirror when the vehicle is parked. A photograph of the permit holder is displayed on the back side of the permit. Because these are generally issued to persons with temporary disabilities, they bear an expiration date. |
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