HB 1457

The " Disabled Drivers Law of 1975 "" regulates parking privileges for disabled drivers in this state. For purposes of such law, a ""disabled driver"":  Means a person who is disabled by paraplegia, amputation of leg, foot or both hands, or is disabled by loss of use of a leg, foot or both hands, or other condition, certified to by a physician duly licensed to practice medicine, resulting in an equal degree of disability (specifying the particular condition) so as not to be able to get about without great difficulty, including impairments that, regardless of cause or manifestation, require the use of a wheelchair or cause the person to be so ambulatorily disabled that the person cannot walk 200 feet without stopping to rest and includes, but is not limited to, those persons using braces or crutches and those with pulmonary or cardiac ills who may be semiambulatory .  Includes the owner of a motor vehicle with vision of not less than 20/200 with correcting glasses in both functioning eyes .  Includes the owner of a motor vehicle who is so ambulatorily disabled that the person cannot walk 200 feet without stopping to rest and who is seeking treatment or healing solely by prayer through spiritual means in the practice of religion in accordance with the creeds or tenets of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts. This bill adds to the definition of a ""disabled driver"" under such law a person who is in the second or third trimester of a pregnancy or who has a pregnancy certified to be high risk by the person's physician ."