Section 18-2403. EMERGENCY PARKING PERMITS

 

2403.1Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, holders of emergency parking permits issued by the Director may stand or park their vehicles in available parking space in the roadway in accordance with the provisions of this section, at the following locations:

 

(a)Entrances to office buildings, apartment buildings, hotels, nursing homes, and residences;

 

(b)Loading zones;

 

(c)Within spaces set aside for holders of official parking permits;

 

(d)Within part or all of the twenty-five foot (25 ft.) space on the far or non-approach side of the intersection of a one-way street with another street, but not within ten feet (10 ft.) of the curb line of the intersecting street or within a marked crosswalk; and

 

(e)Taxicab and sightseeing vehicle stands.

 

2403.2Emergency parking permits shall be used only while the holder is actually responding to an emergency believed to be one in which the life or death of any individual is dependent upon standing or parking by a physician in the places permitted in § 2403.1.

 

2403.3While a vehicle for which a permit has been issued is parked in accordance with this section, the permit shall be displayed so as to be clearly visible through the windshield of the vehicle.

 

2403.4No person other than the permittee named on the permit shall use an emergency parking permit or display it on a vehicle operated or parked. Any such use or display by a person other than the permittee shall constitute a violation of these regulations by the permittee and by the person who so used or displayed it. [MISDEMEANOR: See § 1110]

 

2403.5Upon a satisfactory showing that an applicant is a physician duly licensed as such by the District of Columbia, the Director of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles Services is authorized to issue an emergency parking permit to the applicant.

 

2403.6Each emergency parking permit shall be numbered and shall bear the name and address of the physician to whom it is issued, the description of the vehicle operated by the physician, and the number of the current registration tags issued for the vehicle.

 

2403.7Each emergency parking permit shall be issued and remain valid on the condition that the Director may, at any time, require the holder of the permit to justify, in writing, any particular use of the permit, and to clearly set forth in such justification the conditions which led to the belief that the life or death of an individual was dependent upon standing or parking a vehicle in one of the places set forth in § 2403.1 and the name of the person who requested or required the emergency medical or surgical assistance of the permittee.

 

2403.8If the Director find from a written justification submitted in compliance with § 2403.7, or from independent investigation, or both, that an emergency parking permit has in any instance been used to park a vehicle in any areas set forth in § 2403.1 at a time when the holder had knowledge, or reason to believe, that no emergency situation described in § 2403.2 existed, or find that a permit was used in violation of § 2403.4, the Director is authorized to revoke the permit, and, upon written notification of the revocation, the permittee shall surrender the permit to the Director.

 

2403.9Failure to surrender a revoked emergency parking permit upon request shall constitute a violation of this chapter.