Fine Increase for Non-Handicapped Handicap Parking Parkers
The Transit and Ground Transportation Authority will increase fines from $50 to $200 for those without disabilities inappropriately parked in handicap parking spaces.
Director of the National Secretariat for the Disabled said it is a shame that sanctions have to be placed to enforce respect for people with disabilities, but that next week his organization and the transportation authority will sign an agreement to facilitate the application of fines.
The Secretariat will lend two vehicles and drivers and the authority will provide two officials to make the rounds of commercial centers in search of offenders.
Callers wishing to denounce these offenses may call the Transit and Ground Transportation Authority at .
La Prensa reports.
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For some time now, I have been conducting field research towards a PhD in this emerging multi-disciplinary field, presently dubbed 3rd and 4th World Handicap Studies, pioneered by myself and a small but highly devoted international community of academics, artists, thinkers and city planners – perhaps the world’s only Handicap Think Tank.
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