Fraudulent Disabled Placard use..

I know this type of posting has been brought up. There is an issue and I am looking for ideas or maybe what your own CCRs say. Our CCRS are simple and read only tenants are allowed to use our disabled parking. We do not allow for guest parking as our garage is secure, and it requires an opener. No guest are allowed to park in our disabled parking. It’s for tenants or owners only.

I have lived here nearly 20 years and it’s always worked. Now we have an owner who is using his moms placard. We know this as he admitted to it. He was seen parking his care or his guests car using this placard without the owner. He has been cited. Now he has parked his second car in the disabled spot with his moms placard. The owner of this placard isn’t here. We know this as we see the owner of the car parked in the disabled bay leave in our security camera ALONE. His house is dark, nobody answers the door. He is using it as his own spare parking pace. He parked if there last week and guess what he was with his mom. He has left this car there for 7 days straight. He is using his primary car, is alone and nobody is on his residence. This has displaced one of our disabled owners. Speaking to the jerk goes nowhere and he threatens lawsuit for harassing.

Our board is contemplating time limits ( days ) for cats to be parked on the spots. Proof the owner of the placard live here like mail, or having proof she lives her not just him saying she does.

At this point DMV I feel should be notified again as we know the owner/ his elderly mom isn’t here! She supposedly can’t be left alone. His house is dark and he is leaving for work solo.

Suggestions ? Our atty suggested NOT to tow as this could cause a slippery issue. But we can change our parking rules to make this more fair for the others who haven’t been able to access this spot.

Call the proper authorities who handle these issues. They are best resource not the HOA.

who issues the placards? That is who you report it to. Police are not that resource.

MichelleC8, you are correct that DMV enforces the law that prohibits fraudulent use of placards. See https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/about/reportfraud and a buzillion other sites saying the same. Notably: "California Vehicle Code Section 4461(b) (c) prohibits anyone from lending their placard or knowingly allowing the use of their placard by anyone." It appears to me the problem is not so much the son. Instead, the problem is no one on your board or at your HOA has the courage to make use of a perfectly good law that legislators and other civil servants labored over for a long time. God forbid someone rocks the boat, and for the better, where you are. In the event someone is willing to step up, this someone should document massively, submit the complaint and documentation to California DMV, and see what happens.

What particularly galls me is that, by not reporting this to DMV, you and others are potentially hurting someone who is actually disabled. Shame on all of you.

Can you re enter the last sentence?

Why do you have disabled parking spaces. I'm in New Jersey and we don't have disabled spots in our parking lot. Each unit get one assigned spot and their 8 spots that can be used first come first serve. If someone needed a disabled spot they would have to use their assigned spot for that.

And why does the board need to report this? Why can't you or a neighbor do it? It's NOT an HOA thing. It's the illegal use of a Placard.