Advocates say parking permits widely abused
July 5th, 2008
From The New York Times:
Disability advocates in Connecticut are seeking stricter regulation and enforcement for disability parking placards. Advocates of reform say that too many lifetime passes are issued to people who don’t need them, and that the state has no system in place to punish violators.
“We have no effective way of retrieving these placards when someone dies,” said State Senator Donald J. DeFronzo, a New Britain Democrat and co-chairman of the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee. “We hear stories of these things being handed down almost as if they were part of someone’s estate.”
A reform bill died in the 2008 legislative session after motor vehicle officials estimated that oversight would cost $1.1 million annually.
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