---
kind: "section"
citation: "23 C.F.R. § 1235.7"
title: "23"
number: "1235.7"
heading: "Parking space design, construction, and designation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/23/1235.7"
---

# §1235.7. Parking space design, construction, and designation.

- (a) Each State shall establish design, construction, and designation standards for parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities, under criteria to be determined by the State. These standards shall:
  - (1) Ensure that parking spaces are accessible to, and usable by, persons with disabilities which limit or impair the ability to walk;
  - (2) Ensure the safety of persons with disabilities which limit or impair the ability to walk who use these spaces and their accompanying accessible routes; and
  - (3) Ensure uniform sign standards which comply with those prescribed by the “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways” ([23 CFR part 655](/cfr/23/part655.md), [subpart F](/cfr/23/subpartF.md)) to designate parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities which limit or impair the ability to walk.
- (b) The design, construction, and alteration of parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities for which Federal funds participate must meet the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 100-641, 102 Stat. 3335 (1988); 23 U.S.C. 101(a), 104, 105, 109(d), 114(a), 135, 217, 307, 315, and 402(a); 23 CFR 1.32 and 1204.4; and 49 CFR 1.48(b).

### Source

Source: 56 FR 10329, Mar. 11, 1991, unless otherwise noted.