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Local authorities designate a certain number of parking spaces, particularly in town centres, for use by people with severe disabilities involving exceptional mobility difficulties and blind people. These are marked with a blue ‘P’ sign and an additional sign bearing the wheelchair symbol, or an additional sign explicitly requiring a parking permit to be displayed.
Authorisation to use these specially marked parking spaces is evidenced by a special parking permit in light blue or blue. The permit must be displayed inside the vehicle where it is clearly visible from outside (e.g. on the dashboard).
The necessary exemption permit and parking permit can be applied for at your local council. Simply displaying a severe disability card or other cards (e.g. an orange parking permit) is not sufficient in itself to prove entitlement to use the specially marked disabled parking spaces. Only the light blue (European) or dark blue (marked ‘nur BY’) parking permit is valid here. ‘Nur BY’ parking permits are no longer issued, but remain valid until the expiry date stated on them.
For the group of people mentioned, the ability to use appropriately signposted parking spaces in central locations is not a privilege, but simply a way of compensating for a very difficult life situation. For many of these people with severe disabilities, finding a disabled parking space occupied means that they may have to drive home empty-handed. Due to their severe disability, they cannot, for example, simply get out of their car to ask whether someone could move a vehicle parked there illegally for a short while.
For this reason, the police are keeping a close eye on these parking spaces and are consistently having vehicles parked there without authorisation towed away.
Although an applicant may not meet the criteria for being issued with a blue parking permit for people with severe disabilities, in the case of certain medical conditions, the granting of parking concessions through the issue of a special permit under Section 46(1)(11) of the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO), accompanied by the issue of an orange parking permit, may be considered. This special permit may also grant parking concessions (e.g. free parking at a parking meter); however, it does not confer the right to use specially marked disabled parking spaces (those displaying the ‘wheelchair symbol’).
Prerequisites
The entry of the codes ‘aG’ or ‘Bl’ on the severely disabled person’s card, or a medical assessment (not by a GP) carried out by the Bavarian Centre for Family and Social Affairs.
The issuing authorities (local authorities) are bound by the medical assessment carried out by the Bavarian Centre for Family and Social Affairs. They have no scope to deviate from this assessment or to make their own classifications regarding the degree of disability.Required documents
Disability card bearing the codes ‘aG’ or ‘Bl’
Alternatively, a classification notice from the regional office of the Bavarian Centre for Family and Social Affairs
A photograph of the applicantLegal basis
- Section 12(3) of the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO)
Stopping and parking
- § 46 Para. 1 No. 11 Road Traffic Regulations (StVO)
Special authorisation and permit
- Section 49(1)(12) of the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO)
Administrative offences
- § Section 24 of the Road Traffic Act (StVG)
Traffic offence
- Section 25(1) of the Act on the Duties and Powers of the Bavarian State Police (Police Duties Act – PAG)
Safeguarding
- Section 12(3) of the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO)
Further links
- Disabled parking spaces and other parking facilities
Information on the EU-standard blue parking permit or the German national orange parking permit
- Disabled parking spaces and other parking facilities
Notes
The validity of disabled parking permits and the associated exemption is limited to a maximum of five years, even if the severe disability card itself is issued for a longer period or indefinitely.