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provided in or on privately owned parking lots, parking garages, or other parking areas and <br />designated in accordance with that paragraph, unless one of'the following applies: <br />A. The motor vehicle is being: operated by or for the transport of a person with a <br />disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk and is displaying a valid removable <br />windshield placard or special license plates; <br />B. The motor vehicle is being operated. by or for the transport of a handicapped <br />person and is displaying a parking card or special handicapped license plates. <br />(2) Any motor vehicle that is parked in a special marked parking location in <br />violation of paragraph (b)(1) of this section may be towed or otherwise removed from the <br />parking location by the law enforcement agency of the political subdivision in which the <br />parking location is located. A motor vehicle that is so towed or removed shall not be <br />released to its owner- until the owner presents proof of ownership of the motor vehicle and <br />pays all towing and storage fees normally imposed by that political subdivision for towing <br />and storing motor vehicles. If the motor vehicle is a leased vehicle, it shall not be released <br />to the lessee until the lessee presents proof that the person is the lessee of the motor vehicle <br />and pays all towing and storage fees normally imposed by that political subdivision for <br />towing and storing motor vehicles. <br />(3) If a person is charged. with a violation of paragraph (b)(1) of this section, it is <br />an affirmative defense to the charge that the person is, in f act, "handicapped" as defined in <br />this section. below-, or suffered an injury not more than seventy-two hours prior to the time <br />the person was issued the ticket or citation and that, because of the injury, the person meets <br />at least one of the criteria contained in paragraph (A)(1) of Section 4503.44 of the Ohio <br />Revised Code. <br />(c) When a motor vehicle is being operated by or for the transport of a person with a <br />disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk and is displaying a removable windshield <br />placard or a temporary removable windshield placard or special license plates. or when a <br />motor vehicle is being operated by or for the transport of a handicapped person and is <br />displaying a parking card or special handicapped license plates, the motor vehicle is <br />permitted to park for a period of two hours in excess of the legal parking period permitted <br />by local authorities, except where local ordinances or police rules provide otherwise or <br />where the vehicle is parked in such a manner as to be clearly a traffic hazard. <br />(d) No owner ofan office, facility, or parking garage where special parking locations are <br />required to be designated in accordance with paragraph (a) or this section shall fail to <br />properly mark the special parking locations in accordance with that paragraph or fail to <br />maintain the markings of the special locations, including the erection and maintenance of <br />the filed or movable signs. <br />(e) Nothing in this section shall. be construed to require a person or organization to apply <br />for a removable windshield placard or special license plates if the parking card or special <br />license plates issued to the person or organization under prior law- have not expired or been <br />surrendered or revoked. <br />(f) Whoever violates any provision of paragraph (b) above is <uuilty of an unclassified <br />misdemeanor and. upon issuance and service of i-f= lw­oi- she � s-�c�t tirr3�ly-sty �f�e <br />