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Wounded Warrior Parking Placard — No Meter Fees, and Past the Posted Limit

A free placard that exempts the driver from fees in public metered parking areas and allows parking in time-limited spaces beyond the posted limit, except in zones posted at thirty minutes or less. Requires a disabled parking permit and a rating of 50% or greater.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A free placard that exempts the driver from fees in public metered parking areas and allows parking in time-limited spaces beyond the posted limit, except in zones posted at thirty minutes or less. Requires a disabled parking permit and a rating of 50% or greater.

What it's worth: No fee for the placard, and no fee in public metered parking

  • The department states there is no fee for the placard itself.
  • The exemption is described for public parking areas with metered parking; private lots are not mentioned.
  • The extension beyond a posted time limit does not apply in zones designated at thirty minutes or less.

Who is entitled to it

  • The placard is issued to the veteran.
  • You served in the armed forces.
  • Your rating is 50% or greater.
  • Your home is in Oregon.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Get the ordinary disabled person parking permit first. The placard sits on top of that permit — it does not replace it.
  2. 2Have the rating documented at 50% or greater. Both conditions have to be met, not either one.
  3. 3Read the exception before relying on it: a zone posted at thirty minutes or less is outside the extended-time allowance.
  4. 4Do not assume private lots. What is described is public parking areas with metered parking.
  5. 5Keep the placard current with the underlying disabled parking permit; the permit’s own renewal governs.
Form
The motor vehicle division’s disabled person parking permit, then the placard
File with
Oregon DMV, with the department’s certification of the rating
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter
Periodic
Re-confirmed from time to time.
CorrectionThe thirty-minute exception is the detail that gets missed. In a zone posted at thirty minutes or less the placard does not buy extra time, whatever it does elsewhere.
Known gapThe department names a Senate Bill rather than a codified section, and neither has been read. Renewal terms and whether the placard follows the driver or the vehicle are not established here.

Sources

Why only one source type: Read from the department’s own transportation page. The motor vehicle division’s own permit page and the ORS text were not reached this session, so the permit mechanics are described only as the department states them.

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