Reserved Parking (accessible) sign
Marks parking spaces reserved for vehicles displaying a disability placard or plate.
What to do
Park here only if your vehicle displays a valid disability placard or plate.
Park in these spaces only if your vehicle carries a valid disability placard or plate, and keep the striped access aisle beside them clear.
Permissive parking signs use green on white; the accessibility symbol is white on blue.
Where it's used
Section 2B.53 requires the Accessible Parking (R7-8) sign wherever parking spaces are reserved for persons with disabilities, and the sign must display the official International Symbol of Accessibility. It is a vertical white permissive parking sign with a green legend and border and the white-on-blue wheelchair symbol. Where the spaces are designed for wheelchair vans, a VAN ACCESSIBLE (R7-8aP) plaque must be mounted below it.
Don't confuse it with
- No Parking Any Time: NO PARKING ANY TIME is a red prohibitive sign that bans everyone, while this green sign reserves spaces for qualified vehicles.
- No Parking (symbol): The R8-3 symbol sign bans all parking; the accessible sign allows parking only by vehicles displaying a valid disability placard or plate.
- Type
- Regulatory signs
- Shape
- Vertical rectangle
- Colors
- white, green, blue
- MUTCD code
- R7-8
- MUTCD section
- 2B.53
On state permit tests
Our questions for 2 states ask about this sign, including New York and Pennsylvania.
Test yourself
This sign marks a parking space reserved for: (New York practice test)
- Compact cars
- Vehicles with plates or a permit for people with disabilities, transporting that person
- Electric vehicles
- Delivery vehicles
Show answer
Vehicles with plates or a permit for people with disabilities, transporting that person. You can park in reserved disability spaces only if you have the special plates or permit and the person who received it is in the vehicle.
Who may legally park in a space marked with a RESERVED PARKING (disabled) sign? (Pennsylvania practice test)
- Any vehicle with hazard lights on
- Delivery trucks
- Vehicles displaying authorized disabled registration plates or placards
- Anyone for 15 minutes
Show answer
Vehicles displaying authorized disabled registration plates or placards. These spaces are reserved for vehicles with authorized disabled or severely disabled veteran plates or placards; others may be fined and towed.
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Combined Maximum and Minimum Speed LimitsFrom the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), 11th edition, section 2B.53. Sign image: public domain, source.