Can you really park in handicap parking spots that still don't have the signs?

There was a service dog in the restaurant which needed dispatching. A former EBRPSO cop now in Lafayette switched back to his original training when he got the call and found the first parking spot available.

Nothing to see here folks, move along, resume your normal lives.

From Indiana Code (from the website on the bumper, this is Lafayette, Indiana not Lafayette, LA) LINK:

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The reserved space or spaces under this chapter must be reserved by posting immediately adjacent to and visible from the space or spaces a vertical sign measuring at least forty-eight (48) inches from the base of the sign, located in a manner that will not be obscured by a vehicle parked in the space

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So if I'm reading it correctly, the space has to have a vertical sign also.

But I bet that cop wouldn't hesitate to write a ticket to someone else without a handicapped tag.

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So if I'm reading it correctly, the space has to have a vertical sign also.

But I bet that cop wouldn't hesitate to write a ticket to someone else without a handicapped tag.

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Right, but those laws didn't apply to construction before March 2012 and looking at google street view, both handicap spots look like this so that means the cop did 1 of 2 things.

A) Saw the handicap spot and didn't give any fricks.
B) Saw that IHOP didn't have any legal handicap spots and thus is in violation in the law and didn't give any fricks.

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I was under the impression that spots created before 2012 didn't have to have the sign on a pole, so long as they are not in need of maintenance.

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