Special parking is provided for those persons who display a disability parking permit. These spaces are enforced 24 hours per day, seven days a week. The permit is also valid in any legal space not reserved for other special parking. In order to qualify for an OSU Disability Parking Permit, the person must have a state issued Disability Parking Placard. Any unauthorized vehicle parked in a physically disabled person's parking space is subject to being immediately towed from campus.

Temporary medical permits will be issued to persons with a temporary medical disability to allow more convenient parking than otherwise afforded by their regular permit. To obtain a temporary medical permit one should submit a letter requesting handicap parking from your attending physician or a doctor at the University Health Services on a legal, original prescription form or a computer-generated form on business letterhead with the length of time requested. Temporary Medical permits may park in any legal space on campus not reserved for other special parking, with an OSU paid permit. These Temporary Medical Permits may not be valid off the OSU campus.

Both physically disabled and temporary medical permits are for the absolute and specific use of the permit holder only. Visitors having a state handicap placard, as for all visitors to the OSU campus, are required to obtain a visitor permit when parking on campus.