I’ve heard some people treat it as a disabled space, but some who treat it as an electric vehicle charging space first, but it’s “also accessible.” What parking authority is allowed to cite these spaces?
I’ve heard some people treat it as a disabled space, but some who treat it as an electric vehicle charging space first, but it’s “also accessible.” What parking authority is allowed to cite these spaces?
There’s a lot of amiguity about around this and people have been cited:
https://twitter.com/brandenflasch/status/1682051749954084867
As you can see, though, generally the rules are on the side of using them last.
Eh, not really. The person that voided the ticket made a mistake.
It’s pretty unambiguous that the signage means that you must have disabled plates and must be charging. It’s an AND condition not an OR condition.
Ask yourself this: If you had both regular handicap and handicap charging spaces, what signs would you put up for the latter to distinguish them from the former? The answer is easy: You’d do exactly what is in the photo.
Right now there aren’t enough EVs to matter in North Carolina, but I guarantee they will stop voiding tickets once enough disabled people complain that all the handicap spots are taken by EVs.
No, that’s not how it works anywhere that has clarified it. Nowhere has clarified to say you must be disabled to charge there. They have all gone with OR. In the remaining states, confusion reigns. New spaces must have a certain % of disabled access spaces. The charging disabled spaces are intended as ‘only charge here if you need to’.