How to request the removable disability parking placard

It is the authorisation to use parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities. Being removable, it hangs or is placed in whichever vehicle the person is travelling in at the time, whether their own, a relative’s or that of whoever is taking them to an appointment. That portability is the practical reason many people need the placard even if they do not drive: what is being certified is the person’s condition, not ownership of a car.

CESCO does not publish on this list the clinical criteria that entitle someone to the placard. What it does publish is that the procedure includes Form DTOP-DISC-010, and on CESCO’s list that kind of form is the one a health professional completes. In other words: eligibility is certified by whoever treats you, and CESCO processes that certification. Whether your situation is permanent or temporary, and which conditions qualify, is the conversation to have at the appointment.

• Three 2×2 photos.Verified against the official source
• Form DTOP-DISC-375.Verified against the official source
• Form DTOP-DISC-010.Verified against the official source

• The two completed forms and the three 2×2 photos.
• Photo identification of the applicant, which is standard for any CESCO transaction.

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   Step 1: Download both forms before the medical appointment

   CESCO publishes DTOP-DISC-375 and DTOP-DISC-010 on its list of applications and forms. Take them printed to the appointment: going to CESCO first to ask and then to the doctor is two trips where one would do.

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   Step 2: Have the health professional complete their part

   This is the step that decides the process and the one you cannot do yourself. Use an appointment you already have rather than booking a separate one, and check before leaving that the form is signed and complete: going back for a signature is the most common cause of delay.

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   Step 3: Get the three 2×2 photos

   Three, not one. The 2×2 format is the same as passport photos, so anywhere that takes them will do. Getting three at once is cheaper and avoids an extra trip if one comes out blurred.

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   Step 4: Book a CESCO appointment and hand it all in together

   CESCO runs on an appointment system. Bring the three photos and both forms, the medical one already completed. CESCO publishes neither a cost nor a timeframe for this placard, so ask when you hand it in if you need to plan around a date.

At a CESCO office, with an appointment. Forms DTOP-DISC-375 and DTOP-DISC-010 are on CESCO’s list of applications and forms.

• Going to CESCO first, when the process starts with the medical form.
• Bringing a single 2×2 photo when CESCO asks for three.
• Handing in the DTOP-DISC-010 unsigned or incomplete.
• Confusing the removable placard with the fixed disability plate, which is a different procedure.
• Assuming you have to drive to be entitled to the placard.
• Going without an appointment.

These are the government pages this guide is based on.

• Directoría de Servicios al Conductor (CESCO)

  CESCO

  www.cesco.pr.gov