Sec. 681.0032.  ISSUANCE OF DISABLED PARKING PLACARDS TO CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS.  (a)  The department shall provide for the issuance of disabled parking placards described by Section 681.002 for a van or bus operated by an institution, facility, or residential retirement community for the elderly in which a person described by Section 504.201(a) resides, including an institution licensed under Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code, and a facility licensed under Chapter 246 or 247 of that code.
(b)  The application for a disabled parking placard must be made in the manner provided by Section 681.003(b) and be accompanied by a written statement signed by the administrator or manager of the institution, facility, or retirement community certifying to the department that the institution, facility, or retirement community regularly transports, as a part of the services that the institution, facility, or retirement community provides, one or more persons described by Section 504.201(a) who reside in the institution, facility, or retirement community.  The department shall determine the eligibility of the institution, facility, or retirement community on the evidence the applicant provides.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 513, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by: 
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 728 (H.B. 2018), Sec. 20.003(c), eff. September 1, 2005.