Handicap placard on a golf cart
 

Is it legal to use a handicap placard when parking a golf cart in a handicap space either on a road or parking lot? I was told by a reliable source that the placard should only be used on a car.

If a 75 gets out of his/her golf cart, parked in a handicap spot with a handicap placard - has a cane or has trouble maneuvering, do you think a sherif will issue a summons and tell the person to move?

You can use on your cart however, unless you have a way a make it very hard to remove I wouldn't recommend it. They do get stolen. Enforcement here is almost non-existent so use at your own peril.

It should be for people in wheelchairs only (like on the placard), IMO.
According to google AI:
Yes, a valid disability placard can be used to park a golf cart in a handicap space in Florida. Golf carts are treated the same as other vehicles for handicap parking. The placard should be displayed on the golf cart, either on the rear-view mirror or secured to the cart. Parking without a placard could result in a ticket.

We have 2 handicap placards, one for the car and one for the golf cart, it was easy to get the second one. Also, when using the car, we forgot to move the placard from the visor to the dash, and yes, we did get a ticket for $250, I was able to appeal and I had to appear in person with the original placard to get the ticket dismissed, lesson learned.

What if the sheriff comes along when the driver is not there to prove disability?

I placed a card on my husband’s golf cart. Taped it on with lots of clear shipping tape.

While entering the parking lot of Mulberry VA a sheriff was standing behind a pickup with a motility lift, parked in handicap. However there was not a plate or placard. She looked through the window. then Sheriff called inside to find where the owner was. Entered the clinic, with staff found the owner. She explained lack of placard. He had forgotten but it was in the cab. Sheriff, asked permission for keys, went outside and placed placard. Thanked him for his service and left. He was a Korea veteran. Outstanding what the sheriff did. She could have just written the ticket and left.

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.

Around here the whole lot should be handicapped parking…..:: then have front for wheel chair access only. :highfive:

Why would the front need to be wheel chair access at all? People in wheelchairs don't need to worry about falling or balance or their hips hurting from walking too far.

There should be a part of an entire aisle dedicated to wheel-chair only access, with a sidewalk up the whole aisle where people front in. That way they get out of the car, into their transport chairs (or down their lift if it's a handivan), wheel onto the sidewalk in front of their vehicle, and not worry about traffic until they get to the end of the sidewalk in front of the store(s).

It's the people who can still walk, but need assistance, who need those closer spaces.

I don’t agree. I was up north to visit my family recently and we went a restaurant and it was packed with all the handicapped spaces taken. I dropped mom and family off at the front door (she has a state placard assigned to her) and when I parked in a normal space there was a family getting a handicapped person out of their van and into the establishment from half way across the parking lot in the dark and with some rain. If I am driving mom, I try to not park in the handicapped spot and instead drop her off and or get a spot close to the handicapped ones within reason. Many times I laugh because the regular spots are sometimes closer to the door than the handicapped ones (some of the pools here are an example). As you said, it might not be the driver that’s handicapped and like I said above it should be reserved for wheelchair handicapped.

I was really responding to the original post about using a handicapped placard with a golf cart.

If people are using fake placards (which I am sure happens in both cars and golf carts), that’s a different issues. It’s a societal problem.

The placard is NOT limited to those in wheelchairs.

There are a plethora of disabilities that warrant receiving a disability placard.

Wheelchairs are only one of them...

I had knee replacement surgery on October 7. I’m having the other knee done on January 30. I don’t need a wheelchair. During recovery I use a walker and a cane. I applied for and received a temporary handicapped card which I have and will use sparingly for a few weeks after each surgery. Is that OK with you?