New Handicap Parking Permit Guide Reduces Hassle-by MyParkingPermit.com

NEW YORK, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 37 million Americans are eligible for accessible parking, but the process for securing a parking permit can seem intimidating. To make life easier for drivers with a handicap, MyParkingPermit.com has launched an online state-by-state guide for obtaining a handicap parking permit.

The guide is specially customized with pages for all 50 U.S. states. The guide includes up-to-date, state-specific procedures on how to navigate the permit process. Each page also gauges how easy it is to secure a permit in that state. The bottom of each page displays a checklist of items needed to apply, from the fee to the physician's certification for disability. MyParkingPermit's pages include tips on what to do about lost placards, permit renewals, and where to hang the permit. 

Every state has a different set of procedures for an individual to obtain a disabled parking placard.  For example, one of California's qualifications for a handicap parking permit is, "having impaired mobility due to having lost use of one or more lower extremities, or both hands." Then the site directs users to a state-specific permit application, fee amount, and expiration and renewal dates. Graphics of compliant handicapped parking signs accompany the text.

"The guide is a handy directory for people with short-term or long-term disabilities, or even for people who are moving," said Conrad Lumm, Director of MyParkingPermit. "It streamlines the process of getting a new parking placard, minimizing aggravation by providing information."

To visit the guide, go to http://www.myparkingpermit.com/blog/handicap-parking-permits/

Notes to editors:

1. The following source was referenced: http://www.disabilitycanhappen.org/chances_disability/disability_stats.asp

About MyParkingPermit.com

MyParkingPermit is the world's leading site for custom parking permits. All permits are 40% cheaper than the competitors with no extra charge for printing.

About SmartSign

SmartSign is one of America's fastest growing e-commerce companies and parent of MyParkingPermit, MySafetySign, and more than 50 other sites. The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of signs, tags, mats, and labels. By positioning "signs as solutions," SmartSign has taken a novel approach to ordering signs. Through creating highly targeted, content-rich, and authoritative retail sites, the company provides specific solutions to specific problems, such as providing handicapped parking placards.

SOURCE MyParkingPermit.com