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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
The driver doesn't have to prove anything. My mom got a handicap card when she had a stroke and lost her peripheral vision, balance, and ability to focus her eyes. The driver was her aide, who took her to the doctor's office and grocery shopping, with a transport chair kept in the back. My dad is also unable to move around (he's now unable to leave the house without medical transport or a hydraulic lift into his wheelchair for a "walk" around the block), but when he was able to sit in the car, his aide would drive him to and from. Any kind of walking more than a few hundred feet would exhaust him and we'd have to turn around and go home. But he was able to walk with a walker, for that few hundred feet. In other words - from a handicap spot, to the table in the restaurant.
He hasn't been able to drive for almost 6 years, so no - the DRIVER wouldn't prove a thing.
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If parked in a handicapped space the operator of the vehicle needs to prove he/she is in fact the person with the handicap or is operating the vehicle for a person with a handicap (the owner of the placard) and the person with the handicap is/was in fact being transported. This is to prevent someone without a handicap from just using the car with the handicap placard from parking in a handicapped spot for their own advantage. A handicap placard is issued to an individual NOT a car. I would assume the same rules go for a handicapped registration but I can't speak to that.