Request a disability plate

Steps

• Overview

  If you have a qualifying disability or live with someone who does, you may apply for a disability license plate. A qualifying disability is defined as:

  • Blindness
  • Any condition that significantly limits your ability to walk
  • Any condition that requires a wheelchair, walker, crutch or other assistive device

  A disability plate doesn't qualify you for free parking. You must have a disability parking placard with a yellow free-parking sticker to park for free. Get more information on placards and disability parking.

  Your disability plate expires on your birthday.

   

• Eligibility

  Individual:

  A disability plate can be issued to:

  • Passenger vehicles
  • Mobile homes
  • Pick-up trucks
  • Individually owned vans  

  Organization:

  Disability plates are also issued to organizations that serve and transport people with disabilities. 

   

• Method

  By mail: 

  Fill out a disability plate application. A physician's statement will be required as part of the application. Mail the completed application to: 

  Michigan Department of State 
  Renewal by Mail Unit 
  Lansing, MI 48918 

   

  Branch office appointment:

  Bring either your disability plate application or your disability parking placard to a branch office. 

• Fees

   

  • No plate fee is due when replacing an existing plate with a standard white disability plate.  
  • A $5 plate fee is due when purchasing a Spectacular Peninsulas or Mackinac Bridge disability plate.
  • Additional fees are due when ordering a disability fundraising plate or personalizing the plate.   
  • When ordering a disability plate at renewal, or when purchasing a new vehicle, your regular registration fees will still apply.
  • Passenger vehicles, pick-ups and vans equipped with permanently installed wheelchair lift equipment or permanently installed hand controls are eligible for a 50 percent reduction in the annual registration fee if the vehicle is owned by a wheelchair user, or by someone in the household responsible for transporting the wheelchair user. Additional service fees, such as those for personalizing the plate or for purchasing and renewing a fundraising version, are excluded from the discount. Vans used for commercial purposes aren't eligible for the reduced rate.