North Dakota program
A temporary parking permit
A temporary parking permit when your child’s mobility meets North Dakota’s medical test.
What it is
A temporary parking permit when your child’s mobility meets North Dakota’s medical test.
Walking from a distant parking space can be difficult during treatment. The permit depends on how your child can move, rather than the cancer diagnosis itself. A clinician can assess whether the criteria fit.
Eligibility rules
- The clinician certifies a functional mobility impairment on SFN 2886.
- A doctor, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, chiropractor or physical therapist can sign.
What you get
- $3 for a temporary permit lasting three months.
- Access to designated accessible parking when the permit is used under its rules.
What the help includes
- The temporary permit uses three-month periods.
If you decide to apply
- Ask a qualified clinician to assess your child’s mobility and complete page two of SFN 2886.
- If you decide to request the permit, send the completed form and $3 to the Department of Transportation.
North Dakota Department of Transportation · Official page ↗
After you ask
- The permit lasts three months; if your child still needs it, the clinician signs a new form. You can request two permits at $3 each, by post to the Motor Vehicle Division or at a motor-vehicle office.
Good to know
A diagnosis alone is not enough. The certification concerns what your child can physically do.
Other details
- A temporary permit can fit a temporary limitation. Its use depends on the person with the certified mobility need.
Official sources
“Does our child’s mobility meet the temporary permit rules? Would it help with treatment visits, and could you help with the form if it fits?”
Why I’m asking: I want to make the trip from the car easier when walking is difficult.
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
Take the form to a clinic visit and post it with $3.
Your social worker
A qualifying provider signs the certification page.
The care team
Records and letters when the application asks for them.
- Who decides
- North Dakota Department of Transportation.
- Ask the care team
- “Can you sign the second page of the North Dakota mobility-impaired parking permit form for my child?”
How to apply
First step: Print SFN 2886 and take the second page to the next clinic visit.
- Print SFN 2886 and take the second page to the next clinic visit.
- Ask any of the qualifying providers to sign; you do not have to wait for the oncologist.
Official application / program page ↗
Where it starts: Complete SFN 2886 and have the second page signed by a qualified provider.
What to gather
- Form SFN 2886
- $3
How long: The temporary permit lasts three months and is nonrenewable; continued need requires a new supported request.
What a yes looks like
A placard through the post.
What a no looks like, and the next move
Usually the certification page. Ask which provider can sign it.
Watch out
- The signature is about what your child can physically do, not the diagnosis.
The numbers and the rules
The arcane layer, kept on purpose. Checked September 11, 2026.
What it is worth
A nonrenewable three-month temporary parking permit, $3 each, with up to two permits per supported application.
- $3 — Fee per permit
- $3 — Validity of a temporary permit
Covers: Closer parking at the hospital and elsewhere
What it costs the family: $3 a permit.
The eligibility facts, as published
- Test
- a listed qualifying limitation certified on SFN 2886, including portable oxygen or the form’s specified walking, cardiac, pulmonary, vascular, orthopedic or neurological criteria; diagnosis alone is insufficient
- Form
- SFN 2886, second page signed by the provider
The trap: The test is what your child can physically do, not the diagnosis. The clinician has to certify the functional impairment on the second page of the form.
Where I read this
- SFN 2886, Application for Mobility-Impaired Parking Permit — North Dakota Department of Transportation, read September 10, 2026
- Mobility-Impaired Parking Permits — North Dakota Department of Transportation, read September 10, 2026