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A temporary disabled parking permit

A temporary disabled parking permit can shorten the walk when your child meets Florida’s medical criteria.

What it is

A temporary disabled parking permit can shorten the walk when your child meets Florida’s medical criteria.

Treatment can make walking difficult, but the diagnosis alone is not the parking test. The clinician checks a qualifying disability and walking limitation, or legal blindness. A parent or guardian can sign for the child.

Eligibility rules
  • The test is legal blindness, or a listed disability that prevents walking 200 feet without stopping to rest.
  • A doctor, physician assistant or nurse practitioner at the clinic can sign form HSMV 83039. A doctor licensed outside Florida needs extra paperwork.
What you get
  • A temporary permit for $15, valid for up to six months.
What the help covers
  • The temporary permit covers a temporary mobility impairment. The certification sets the duration within the six-month maximum.
If you decide to apply
  1. Ask the clinician to assess the qualifying walking limitation or other listed criterion on form HSMV 83039.
  2. Sign as parent or guardian and take the completed certification to the county tax collector.

Your county tax collector; Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles parking-permit page · Official page ↗

What happens next
  • Continued temporary need requires current medical certification. An additional temporary permit requested within 12 months of the original permit’s issue date does not require another fee. A parent or guardian can sign for the child.
Good to know

Cancer treatment or a central line alone does not establish eligibility. The form needs the actual qualifying limitation.

Other details
  • The county tax collector issues the permit based on the completed application and medical certification.
Official sources
Ask your social worker

“If treatment makes walking difficult, would our child meet the temporary permit test? What are the fee and renewal rules, and could the clinic complete the form if it fits?”

Why I’m asking: I want a shorter walk at treatment visits if our child meets the medical criteria.

More background and detailed requirements
Additional program information and published rules

Who does what

The three parts, side by side. The agency decides; nobody on this page does.

You

Print the form, sign as parent, get the certification, pay $15 at the tax collector.

Your social worker

The social worker gets the form to the clinician and back.

The care team

Certifies the 200-foot walking limit and the listed condition on the form.

Who decides
The county tax collector issues it on the clinician's certification.
Ask the care team
“Can you certify the temporary disabled parking form for my child? It needs the 200-feet walking limit and the listed condition, not just the diagnosis.”

How to apply

First step: Print the temporary permit form from flhsmv.gov, have the oncology clinician complete the certification, and take it with $15 to the county tax collector.

  1. Print HSMV 83039 and ask the oncology clinician to complete the certification.
  2. Take it with $15 to the county tax collector.

Official application / program page ↗

Where it starts: Form HSMV 83039, signed by the parent and certified by the clinician, to the county tax collector

What to gather

  • Form HSMV 83039
  • The clinician's certification
  • $15

How long: Issued at the tax collector's counter once the form is complete.

What a yes looks like

A temporary hang-tag valid for up to 6 months.

What a no looks like, and the next move

Ask whether the certification missed the 200-feet test or the listed condition, and have the clinician redo it.

Watch out

  • The test is mobility, not diagnosis: unable to walk 200 feet without stopping to rest, plus a listed disability. Ask the clinician to write it that way.
  • Temporary means up to 6 months; renew with a new certification while treatment lasts.
  • A parent or guardian signs the application for the child. The certifier must be a doctor, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner working under a doctor (or a podiatrist or optometrist).
  • Temporary permit: $15, up to six months. Ask the clinician to document a qualifying walking limitation on HSMV83039; cancer treatment or a central line alone is not a confirmed basis.

The numbers and the rules

The arcane layer, kept on purpose. Checked September 10, 2026.

What it is worth

A temporary disabled parking permit for up to 6 months, $15, with a parent's signature and a clinician's certification.

  • $15 — Temporary permit fee
  • $6 — Temporary permit length, up to
  • $200 (together with a listed disability; legal blindness is an alternative) — Mobility test: unable to walk without stopping to rest, distance

Covers: Disabled parking spaces during treatment

What it costs the family: $15.

The eligibility facts, as published

Permit
temporary, up to 6 months, for a temporary mobility impairment (§320.0848(1)(a)2)
Fee usd
15
Form
HSMV 83039
Signer
the applicant or the applicant's parent or guardian
Certifier
physician (ch. 458, 459, 460), podiatric physician, optometrist, advanced practice registered nurse under a physician's protocol, physician assistant, or an out-of-state physician with licensure documentation
Test
legally blind, or a listed disability that renders the person unable to walk 200 feet without stopping to rest

Expect friction on: Certification wording

The trap: Asking the clinician to certify the diagnosis. The form needs the mobility test (200 feet) plus a listed disability; ask the oncology team to describe the walking limit in those words.

Where I read this

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