§ 72.004. PARKING WITH SPECIAL PERMITS FOR PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY AND PERSONS WITH A PURPLE HEART LICENSE PLATE.

(A) Any other provision to the contrary notwithstanding, a motor vehicle bearing an accessible parking placard or disabled license plate when operated by a person with a disability or a temporary disability or when transporting a person with a disability or a temporary disability may be parked in an accessible parking place or when parked where any parking limit is imposed may be parked for two hours in excess of such parking limit. Such motor vehicle may be parked in a loading zone for that period of time necessary to permit entrance or exit of the person with a disability or a temporary disability from the building or entrance or exit of a person with a disability or a temporary disability from the parked vehicle, but in no circumstances longer than 30 minutes. This subchapter shall neither permit parking in a no stopping or no parking zone nor where parking is prohibited for the purpose of creating a fire lane or to accommodate heavy traffic during morning, afternoon, or evening hours, nor permit a motor vehicle to be parked in such a manner as to constitute a traffic hazard.

(B) An operator of a motor vehicle displaying a Purple Heart license plate issued by a Kentucky county clerk office may park his or her vehicle, without charge for two hours, at a metered parking space in Louisville Metro. This section does not exempt said vehicles from complying with any other state laws or ordinances, including, but not limited to zones that prohibit stopping, parking, or standing of all vehicles; parking time limitations; street sweeping; restrictions of parking spaces; or the parking rules related to the operation of a street vending business. This section does not require Louisville Metro Government to designate specific parking spaces for vehicles displaying a Purple Heart license plate.

(1994 Jeff. Code, § 72.04) (Jeff. Ord. 4-1979, adopted and effective 3-27-1979; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 64-2005, approved 5-17-2005; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 203-2015, approved 11-24-2015; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 76-2020, approved 6-29-2020) Penalty, see § 72.006