(a) The following fees are authorized for providing emergency wrecker service to vehicles (except for vehicles owned by the city):
(1) $150 for towage of a vehicle with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of not more than 10,000 pounds, plus a fee of $73 for each hour over two hours that is required to complete the tow, with partial hours paid in quarter hour increments.
(2) $300 for towage of a vehicle with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds but not more than 26,000 pounds, plus a fee of $109 for each hour over two hours that is required to complete the tow, with partial hours paid in quarter hour increments.
(3) $550 for towage of a vehicle with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of more than 26,000 pounds, plus a fee of $182 for each hour over two hours that is required to complete the tow, with partial hours paid in quarter hour increments.
(4) $73 for any service a wrecker operator or driver performs that renders a vehicle operable, including, but not limited to, removing or straightening a bumper or fender, or another similar service.
(5) When dispatched by the chief of police to a location more than 100 yards outside the corporate limits of the city to tow a vehicle from the dispatched location to a location inside the corporate limits of the city, $4 for each loaded one-way mile that the wrecker travels, measured from the dispatched location to the nearest point of the corporate limits of the city using the most direct and expeditious route.
(6) When dispatched by the chief of police to a location inside the corporate limits of the city to tow a vehicle to a location more than 100 yards outside the corporate limits of the city, $4 for each loaded one-way mile that the wrecker travels, measured from the nearest point of the corporate limits of the city to the vehicle delivery location using the most direct and expeditious route.
(7) No additional fee may be charged for linkage of a vehicle prior to a tow or for the use of towing dollies, go-jacks, winching, or air bags.
(b) The charges allowed in Subsections (a)(1), (2), and (3) are calculated from the time a wrecker is dispatched by the chief of police to the time the vehicle to be towed is delivered to a location designated by the chief of police.
(c) A licensee or permittee commits an offense if he, either personally or through an employee or agent:
(1) charges more than the maximum towage fee allowed by this section for the particular vehicle towed;
(2) charges any fee in addition to those lawfully charged under this section; or
(3) requests payment of a fee for emergency wrecker service from a person or in a manner not authorized by this article or rules and regulations established by the director or the chief of police pursuant to this article. (Ord. Nos. 13977; 14685; 15612; 16403; 17673; 18566; 21175; 21311; 24661; 27487; 30993; 32362)