NYS Handicap Parking Permit?

Question

My family owns that handicap parking permit, but it's for New York State. In the summer we go to New Jersey. Will this work in NJ too, or do we need to get a new one?

Thanks

Answer 1

Visiting from Out of State Or Traveling Outside New York State......

New York State honors out-of-state plates and permits for people with disabilities, and most other states also honor New York's permits and plates.

To be sure if you travel to another state, check with the police or motor vehicle agency of the other state about whether they honor New York State issued license plates or permits for people with disabilities.

Answer 2

Just remember - a RED permit is temporary (6 months); the BLUE one is good for 2 years. .As long as it has not expired, the tags are good in any state. .Keep a copy of the paperwork with you, too.

Answer 3

it's good everywhere

Answer 4

handicap Parking Permits allow the handicap user to go anywhere anytime. They have special priviliages to park in a Hardicaped marked parking spot. You do not need a new one. This is good everywhere you go.

I had a choice of a hangtag, which I hang from my mirror when I park and remove it to drive (it's a big thing that gets in the way), and a permanent disabled license plate. The advantages to a hangtag are:

You can take it down and pretend to be a stealth normal person. Your disability is only on display for all to see when you park.

You can move it from vehicle to vehicle. It has your driver's license number on it. This means that when you rent a car or borrow one from a friend or relative, or even travel as a passenger in somebody else's car, you can still use the hangtag to park.

The problem is, I would often forget to hang it when I park in a disabled parking space. "I'm sorry officer, but my disability involves a loss of memory" just doesn't cut it. I probably forgot it 5 or 6 times. I was caught twice. Both tickets were dismissed after I presented the hangtag at the local police station... but the next time I would have had to pay a nontrivial fine. I finally bit the bullet and got a disabled license plate for my car. I also have a hangtag which I use in my wife's car and when we travel. That way we get the best of both worlds.In hindsight, I should have acknowledged that MS has compromised my memory and gone ahead and gotten the license plate in the first place.

The first time I parked in a disabled slot at work (with a certain amount of trepidation - after all, people might see me), I got out of my car and before I had gone more than 10 feet a colleague from another department walked past and said "You know, you don't look like the kind of person that one usually associates with parking in a disabled spot". I explained what was going on in more detail than he probably wanted to hear. He's a nice guy, and I think that he genuinely meant the comment at a surface level - I sure as h**l didn't look disabled at the time. But the unconscious subtext of the comment, the part that wasn't verbalized, was perhaps that I am trying to beat the system by getting a disabled tag when I really didn't need it. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive about it, but as I said, there is academic research that shows that this kind of unconscious prejudice is endemic.