> > However, any driver (wheelchair user or not) who wants to park in these spaces without getting ticketed or towed must apply for a sticker for their car.
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> > People whose lack of mobility is due to temporary conditions, such as a broken leg or pregnancy, can apply for the stickers in the same way.
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> I think that's how it works here. To use a handicap spot legally, you either have to have a wheelchair symbol on your license plate (permanent disabilities) or either a sticker or a thing you hang from the rear view mirror. I don't know if pregnant women can get a temporarily thing or not, and it might vary from state to state, but I wouldn't have a problem with it.

The procedure (at least in California, and as far as I can remember) for getting a temporary disabled placard is to first get both approval and explanation from your doctor. Mom has a permanent disability placard now because of her fibromyalgia, but she had to go through about four or five years of renewing a temporary one every six months, probably because fibromyalgia wasn't really recognized as even a somewhat disabling disease.

According to the California DMV website, you have to have some sort of handicapping condition: lung disease, cardiovascular disease, a condition that restrains full use of your legs (or even disables use altogether), loss of use of both hands, or practical legal blindness (20/200 or worse in the better eye with corrective lenses).

Don't know whether or not normal pregnancy fits under there, but I doubt it. If a pregnancy required the use of a cane, walker, etc. just to be mobile during the last months, however, then it probably would apply.

Ria