As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
(a) "Chief of Police" means the Chief of the Police Division.
(b) "Permit" means the document authorizing the operation of a wrecker service for solicitation of business and for participation in the wrecker dispatch rotation system.
(c) "Solicit" means persistent effort to persuade or entice a person needing towing service to choose a specific wrecker operator.
(d) "Wrecker" or "tow operator" means a person engaged in the business or offering the services of a vehicle wrecker or towing service to the general public, whereby disabled motor vehicles are towed or otherwise removed from the place where they are disabled by use of a wrecker so designed for that purpose or by a truck, automobile or other vehicle so adapted to that purpose.
(Ord. 3781. Passed 4-24-79.)