Wyoming 2025 2025 Regular Session

Wyoming Senate Bill SF0023 Enrolled / Bill

Filed 02/18/2025

                    ORIGINAL SENATE
FILE NO. SF0023
ENROLLED ACT NO. 4, SENATE
SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2025 GENERAL SESSION
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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; expanding the types of 
health care providers who have the authority to submit a 
letter on behalf of a patient applying for a handicap 
placard; making conforming amendments; and providing for an 
effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.  W.S. 31-2-213(c), (d)(ii)(intro) and 
(g)(ii)(B) is amended to read:
31-2-213.  Department to supply registration 
certificates, plates and stickers; removable windshield 
placards.
(c)  The department shall issue a special tamper 
resistant removable windshield placard to an applicant 
submitting a letter from his physician, 
practice registered nurse, physician assistant, physical 
therapist, occupational therapist, podiatrist or 
optometrist stating the applicant has a disability that is 
expected to last a minimum of twelve (12) months which 
limits or impairs the ability to walk, or to any person 
responsible for the regular transportation of eligible 
persons with a disability that is expected to last a 
minimum of twelve (12) months which limits or impairs the 
ability to walk who submits such a letter on behalf of an 
eligible person. The placard shall display the 
international symbol of access. When a vehicle is parked in 
an area reserved for the handicapped, the placard shall be 
suspended from the rearview mirror inside the vehicle, so 
as to be in plain view of any person looking through the 
front windshield of the vehicle from the sidewalk or 
roadside. For motor vehicles which do not have rearview 
mirrors, the placard shall be displayed on the dashboard of  ORIGINAL SENATE
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ENROLLED ACT NO. 4, SENATE
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2025 GENERAL SESSION
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the parked vehicle, on the side nearest the curb or 
roadside. Upon request, one (1) additional placard shall be 
issued to applicants who have not been issued special 
license plates.
(d)  As used in this section:
(ii)  "Eligible person" means a person with 
disabilities which limit or impair the ability to walk as 
determined by a licensed physician 
registered nurse, 
occupational therapist, podiatrist or optometrist, 
including:
(g)  The department shall issue a temporary removable 
windshield placard under the same procedures and subject to 
the same conditions as provided in subsections (c) through 
(e) of this section except:
(ii)  The temporary placard shall:
(B)  Expire on and bear an expiration date 
which shall be visible from outside the vehicle when the 
card is properly displayed under subsection (c) of this 
section and be based on the information in the 
letter required by subsection (c) of this section. ORIGINAL SENATE
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ENROLLED ACT NO. 4, SENATE
SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2025 GENERAL SESSION
3Section 2.  This act is effective July 1, 2025.
(END)
Speaker of the HousePresident of the SenateGovernorTIME APPROVED: _________DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.
Chief Clerk