The Chief of Police or designee shall add a tow service to the police rotation list when it is determined:
(A) That public convenience and necessity require the applicant tow service be added to the police rotation list;
(B) The tow service business location and its storage facility are located within the city limits;
(C) Insurance policies as required by the chapter have been procured;
(D) All applicants, operators, owners, investors, partners, limited partners and joint venturers have never been convicted, pleaded no contest or received a prayer for judgment for any felony, assault, theft, or any other crime involving the taking, use, tampering with, or conversion of a motor vehicle;
(E) The tow service will use only tow trucks equipped with revolving or flashing amber or yellow light(s) which shall be operating during any tow;
(F) The tow service will provide 24 hours per day, seven days per week, on-call service;
(G) The tow service will arrive at the location of the vehicle to be towed within 30 minutes after receiving a request for day towing services and within a reasonable time after receiving a request for night, weekend and holiday towing from the Police Department;
(H) The tow service will provide and use a storage area for towed vehicles that is enclosed by a chain link fence or equivalently secure fence or enclosure which shall be illuminated at night and shall have sufficient storage space and facilities to protect from the elements such vehicles as would be damaged by exposure and a sufficient amount of additional storage space to store other vehicles, all within an enclosure having a wall or a solid fence of sufficient height or design to conceal the towed vehicles from view from any street or public way, and illuminated at night;
(I) The tow service will maintain towing equipment which is adequate to perform the towing service in a reasonably workmanlike manner and is properly equipped to tow vehicles in such a manner as to minimize any damage to towed vehicles. All towing equipment shall contain the name and phone number of the tow operator placed on the sides of the tow vehicle in letters no less than three inches in height. At all times and not just for inspection purposes, tow services shall have and maintain in good working order the equipment, tools and supplies required and set out in section 11-7-10.
(J) The requirements of this chapter and all other governing laws and ordinances have been met.
(Ord. No. 07-16, passed 2-8-2007)