Parking card for people with disabilities

Use of the permit

In accordance with the Road Traffic Regulations, the parking permit for people with disabilities entitles cars driven by or whose passenger is a person to whom this permit has been issued to use parking spaces for people with disabilities (marked with additional sign 844 "Disabled" or road sign 942) both in Latvia, as well as in other Member States of the European Union.

In the territory of Latvia, cars marked with a disability parking permit are not subject to the operation of signs 302, 303, 327 (sign 302 "No driving", sign 303 "No driving for motor vehicles", sign 327 "No parking") as well as the embarkation or disembarkation of disabled persons in the area of operation of sign 326 "No stopping".

The parking permit for people with disabilities must be placed in the interior of the car next to the windscreen.

The Road Traffic Law imposes a fine in the amount of six fine units, which is thirty euros in monetary terms, for driving a vehicle for which a parking permit for people with disabilities has been installed without permission, but for parking in places marked with Additional Sign 844 or Road designator 942. with a vehicle without a parking permit for people with disabilities, a fine of eleven fine units or fifty-five euros in monetary terms shall be imposed on the driver of the vehicle.