(A) Rotation list. Each Official Police Tow Service designated as an Official Police Tow Service shall be placed on a “rotation list” in an initial order to be determined by the Police Department. The rotation list shall be used whenever a driver or owner of a disabled vehicle is unable to specify a particular garage or tow service, or whenever an authorized Police Department employee requests the storage or impounding of a vehicle.
(B) Turns in rotation. Each Official Police Tow Service shall be called, in turn according to the established rotation list, to respond to a Police Department request for towing service and, when in turn, shall have exclusive right to provide service as follows:
(1) The Official Police Tow Service at the top of the order on the rotation list shall have preference to tow all vehicles from a specific scene, provided that Official Police Tow Service responds with all equipment needed to accomplish the tows within the response time specified herein.
(2) Whenever an Official Police Tow Service cannot respond with all equipment needed to accomplish all tows at a specific scene within the response time specific herein, the next Official Police Tow Service on the rotation list shall be called to provide service to the remaining vehicle(s).
(C) Loss of turn in rotation. Whenever an Official Police Tow Service cannot, for any reason, respond with any equipment needed to accomplish the requested service within the response time specified herein, that Official Police Tow Service shall be passed over and the next Official Police Tow Service on the rotation list will be called. The Official Police Tow Service shall become eligible to provide service again only in its next turn in rotation.
(D) Exceptions.
(1) Whenever the driver or owner of a disabled vehicle specifies a particular club, association or tow service to be called to provide service, such calls shall not constitute a "rotation" call.
(2) Whenever a Police Department employee determines that an emergency exists because an Official Police Tow Service is unable, for any reason, to provide adequate tow service, the Police Department employee shall have the right to have such duties performed by any other means available.
(3) Whenever an Official Police Tow Service is called to tow a city police vehicle within the city’s corporate limits, such call shall not constitute a “rotation” call.
(Ord. 1161, passed 7-12-00; Am. Ord. 1407, passed 3-7-18)