(a) A licensee shall specify and require an item of apparel or an item placed on the apparel to be worn by vehicle immobilization operators employed by the licensee, which item must be of such distinctive and uniform design as to readily identify the licensee’s vehicle immobilization service and must bear the name of the licensee’s vehicle immobilization service. The item specified by each licensee must be approved by the director to ensure that operators of one licensee may be easily distinguished from operators of another.
(b) While on duty, a vehicle immobilization operator shall wear the item specified by the licensee who employs the operator and shall comply with such other identification regulations prescribed by the vehicle immobilization service license.
(c) Every vehicle immobilization service shall have company dress standards for vehicle immobilization operators employed by the licensee. These standards must be kept on file with the director and must include the following:
(1) While on duty, a driver may not wear:
(A) apparel with offensive or suggestive language;
(B) cut offs; or
(C) tank tops or halter tops.
(2) Shoes must be worn at all times in the manner for which they were designed. A vehicle immobilization operator may not wear beach or shower thongs.
(3) A vehicle immobilization operator and the operator’s clothing must conform to basic standards of hygiene and be neat, clean, and sanitary at all times. (Ord. 27629, eff. 10-1-09)
(a) A licensee commits an offense if he, either personally or through an employee or agent, immobilizes a vehicle on:
(1) a public street; or
(2) any area between the property line of private property abutting a public street and the center line of the street’s drainage way or the curb of the street, whichever is farther from the property line of the private property.
(b) It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a) that:
(1) the vehicle was immobilized on a portion of public right-of-way leased by the city to the person requesting immobilization of the vehicle, if such immobilization was not prohibited by the lease and the immobilization was done:
(A) by a vehicle immobilization service currently licensed under this chapter; and
(B) in compliance with all the requirements of this chapter and any other applicable city ordinance or state or federal law; or
(2) the vehicle immobilization was authorized by a police officer or a traffic and parking controller under Section 28-5.1 of this code. (Ord. 27629, eff. 10-1-09)
(a) A licensee commits an offense if he, either personally or through an employee or agent:
(1) directly or indirectly gives anything of value, other than a sign or notice required to be posted under this chapter, to a parking lot owner in connection with the immobilization of a vehicle on the parking lot; or
(2) has a direct or indirect monetary interest in a parking lot on which the licensee, for compensation, immobilizes or causes the immobilization of an unauthorized vehicle.
(b) A parking lot owner commits an offense if he, either personally or through an employee or agent:
(1) accepts anything of value, other than a sign or notice required to be posted under this chapter, from a vehicle immobilization service in connection with the immobilization of a vehicle on the parking lot; or
(2) has a direct or indirect monetary interest in a vehicle immobilization service that, for compensation, immobilizes or causes the immobilization of an unauthorized vehicle on the parking lot.
(c) It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a)(2) that:
(1) the licensee is an owner or employee of the parking lot on which the vehicle is immobilized; and
(2) the licensee’s vehicle immobilization service does not charge any vehicle immobilization fee authorized under Section 48C-44(a) of this chapter or any other fee, fine, or penalty to a vehicle owner or operator for removal of a boot; except that, the licensee may collect any outstanding parking fee, not including any fine or penalty, from the vehicle owner or operator in accordance with Section 48C-44(b) of this chapter.
(d) It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (b)(2) that:
(1) the parking lot owner is an owner or employee of a licensed vehicle immobilization service; and
(2) the vehicle immobilization service in which the parking lot owner has a financial interest does not charge any vehicle immobilization fee authorized under Section 48C-44(a) of this chapter or any other fee, fine, or penalty to a vehicle owner or operator for removal of the boot; except that, the parking lot owner may collect any outstanding parking fee, not including any fine or penalty, from the vehicle owner or operator in accordance with Section 48C-44(b) of this chapter. (Ord. 27629--)
(a) A parking lot owner commits an offense if he, either personally or through an employee or agent, immobilizes or causes the immobilization of a vehicle on a parking lot unless at the time a vehicle is parked on the parking lot, the parking lot owner provides a receipt in accordance with Subsection (b) of this section to a vehicle owner or operator in exchange for payment of the parking fee.
(b) A parking lot owner shall provide the receipt required under Subsection (a) of this section by either an electronic pay station or a uniformed parking lot attendant, and the receipt must indicate:
(1) the amount paid to park the vehicle by the vehicle owner or operator;
(2) the date and time the parking fee was received from the vehicle owner or operator;
(3) the time when authorization for the vehicle to be parked on the parking lot expires; and
(4) the location of the parking lot on which the vehicle is parked. (Ord. Nos. 27629; 27803)
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