Hawaii program
A temporary accessible-parking placard (Hawaii PA-3)
A temporary parking placard can help when your child has a qualifying difficulty walking.
What it is
A temporary parking placard can help when your child has a qualifying difficulty walking.
Treatment can make walking from the car to the clinic difficult. The permit depends on medical and walking limitations, not the diagnosis alone. A qualified clinician certifies those limitations on PA-3.
Eligibility rules
- The permit depends on a qualifying mobility limitation, not leukemia alone. The current PA-3 form allows a physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse with the required Hawaii license or military authority to certify it.
- PA-3 combines the listed medical and functional criteria. These can include inability to walk 200 feet without resting, needing another person or a device, or qualifying portable-oxygen use. Ordinary age-related inability to walk is not enough. The child holds the permit; a parent can act as representative. The form allows its specified notarized identity-affidavit alternative.
What you get
- A temporary disability parking permit for $12.
- A permit lasting up to six months when the mobility criteria are met.
What the help covers
- The temporary permit’s length follows the certified need, up to the six-month maximum.
If you decide to apply
- Ask a physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse whether your child meets the PA-3 criteria.
- Have the clinician complete the certification and submit the form through the parking-permit process within 60 days of the signature.
Hawaii Disability and Communication Access Board parking-permit information. · Official page ↗
What happens next
- The certifier’s signature remains valid for 60 days for submission.
- A temporary red placard goes through your county’s process.
- It costs $12 for a certified period of up to six months, with medical certification no more than sixty days old; another temporary period needs a new certification.
- Your social worker can help check the county’s appointment or permitted mail route and the identification and representative documents.
- Replacement fees depend on whether the permit was lost, stolen, confiscated or returned damaged.
Good to know
The diagnosis alone does not qualify your child. The certification needs to describe the walking limitation.
Other details
- A permit request can be discussed at a clinic visit when the team can assess how treatment affects walking.
Official sources
- Disability parking permit frequently asked questions
- PA-3 disability parking permit application, April 2025
- health.hawaii.gov: city and county of honolulu disability parking permit information
- health.hawaii.gov: county of hawaii hawaii island disability parking permit information
- health.hawaii.gov: county of maui disability parking permit information
- health.hawaii.gov: county of kauai disability parking permit information
“If walking becomes difficult, would a temporary parking placard help? What limits apply, and could you help with the medical form if it fits?”
Why I’m asking: I want to make the trip from the car to treatment more manageable.
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
Get the form signed at a clinic visit and send it inside 60 days.
Your social worker
The clinic signs the certification.
The care team
The doctor or nurse describes the mobility limitation.
- Who decides
- The Disability and Communication Access Board.
- Ask the care team
- “Could you sign a PA-3 parking permit form at our next visit? Walking from the car park is hard on treatment weeks.”
How to apply
First step: Ask the clinic to sign form PA-3 at your next visit.
- Ask the clinic to sign form PA-3 at the next visit.
- Send it within 60 days of the signature.
Official application / program page ↗
Where it starts: PA-3 through the applicable county process, with certification no more than 60 days old. A new temporary period needs a new certification; representative and identity rules apply.
What to gather
- Form PA-3
- $12
- the clinic appointment
How long: Not published.
What a yes looks like
A placard valid for up to six months.
What a no looks like, and the next move
Ask the clinician to describe the mobility limitation more fully and re-submit.
Watch out
- It is about mobility, not the diagnosis, so the form has to describe what your child cannot do.
- The signature is only good for 60 days.
The numbers and the rules
The arcane layer, kept on purpose. Checked September 11, 2026.
What it is worth
A temporary permit for up to six months, for $12, on form PA-3.
- $6 — Maximum duration of a temporary permit
- $60 — Validity of the certifier’s signature
- $12 — Fee
What it costs the family: $12.
The eligibility facts, as published
- Test
- a qualifying mobility limitation, not a diagnosis
- Certifier
- Physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse with the required Hawaii license or military authority
- Duration
- up to six months
- Fee
- $12
The trap: The certifier’s signature is only valid for 60 days, so do not sit on the form. The permit itself runs up to six months.
Where I read this
- Disability parking permit frequently asked questions — Hawaii Department of Health, Disability and Communication Access Board, read September 10, 2026