Tex. Transp. Code § 681.002 · Chapter 681. PRIVILEGED PARKING
DISABLED PARKING PLACARD.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall provide for the issuance of a disabled parking placard to a person with a disability.
(b) A disabled parking placard must be two-sided and hooked and include on each side:
(1) the international symbol of access, which must be at least three inches in height, be centered on the placard, and be:
(A) white on a blue shield for a placard issued to a person with a permanent disability; or
(B) white on a red shield for a placard issued to a person with a temporary disability;
(2) an identification number;
(3) an expiration date at least three inches in height; and
(4) the seal or other identification of the department.
(c) The department shall furnish the disabled parking placards to each county assessor-collector.
(d) A disabled parking placard must bear a hologram designed to prevent the reproduction of the placard or the production of a counterfeit placard.
(e) In addition to the expiration date included on a disabled parking placard under Subsection (b), the expiration date must be indicated on the placard by a month and year hole-punch system.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1353, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1362, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1160 (H.B. 3095), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.681.htm
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