Advantages of disabled people in parking

Advantages of disabled people in parking

"This card entitles its holder to use a preferential parking space for PPPs transporting disabled people," this says on the back of the familiar blue preferential parking card in hourly paid and municipal property parking areas. This card is part of the rights and benefits that the law guarantees for poor health.

Right to use a preferential parking card

     Not every disability may benefit from a preferential parking card. It is issued only to persons with permanent disabilities. These are persons who, as a result of anatomical, physiological or mental impairment, have a permanently reduced ability to perform activities in a manner and to the extent possible for a healthy person. Individual municipalities have introduced their own but similar criteria to assess whether persons are eligible. Such are the cases in which persons with disabilities can only move with the aid of a wheelchair, orthopedic appliances, external prostheses, crutches, or foreign assistance, ie. persons who cannot stand upright without the use of technical aids. Persons with more than 90% of permanent disability due to heart and lung diseases, as well as visual impairments, have this right. In order to be able to characterize a person with permanent disability and be able to claim a parking card, he or she must have a reduced performance or type and degree of impairment of at least 50 per 100. If the person suffers from such a disability, it must be determined by a procedure established by the medical examination bodies (TELC / DELC / NELC). What is this procedure? The authority to be addressed by a person is the Mayor of the municipality at the permanent or current address of the person. He usually appoints a standing committee to review the applications, which he may, at his discretion, call on the person or legal representative of the person to clarify the case. The documents to be attached to the application are the following: 1. Identity card to compare data from it and it returns. 2. A copy of the decision of TELK, NELK or DELK in order to certify the permanently reduced working capacity or the type and extent of the damage, accompanied by the original, which shall be verified upon submission of the documents and returned;   3. Color photo to be up-to-date - needed to stick on the parking card. 4. Notarized power of attorney - a copy when the request is not submitted by the disabled person, accompanied by an original, which is verified upon submission of documents and returned; 5. Another document certifying the representative authority, if the person submits documents for issue to another person. For example, a birth certificate if she issues it to her child. The price must be paid for the card set by the municipality, but not more than the cost of its issuance. The card is issued within 14 days. If it is refused or the decision is not followed, the express or tacit administrative refusal may be appealed. The card is issued according to the standard standard for the European Union. Therefore, if it is issued by another EU Member State, it is also valid on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria. The preferential parking card is a light blue color with a white "disabled" symbol on a dark blue background and is referred to as a "disabled parking card". Its contents include: date of issue, serial number, names, signature and photograph of its holder, hologram and other elements. All texts are in Bulgarian and the card is obligatory laminated.