The public safety communications center shall establish and maintain a wrecker rotation list of light duty and heavy duty wrecker permit holders.
(a) When the police officer investigating an accident determines that any vehicle involved in the accident is unable to safely proceed under its own power, or when the police officer determines that the driver of any vehicle involved in an accident is physically unable to safely move the vehicle to a location where it will not create a traffic hazard, such officer shall request the driver to designate a permit holder or tow truck operator of the driver’s choice to remove the vehicle.
(1) When the designation has been properly made, the police officer shall communicate the name of the designated permit holder or tow truck operator to the public safety communications center or its authorized agent.
(2) The public safety communications center or its authorized agent shall cause the designated permit holder or tow truck operator to be called and directed to the scene.
(b) If the owner of a vehicle is physically unable to designate a permit holder or tow truck operator to remove the vehicle, or if he or she fails or refuses to designate one, or has no preference, then the police officer shall communicate that fact immediately to the public safety communications center or its authorized agent. The public safety communications center or its authorized agent shall then call the permit holder next in line on the wrecker rotation list and request the permit holder to tow the vehicle from the scene. After the last permit holder on the list has been called, the next such call shall go to the first permit holder on the list.
(c) The permit holder, upon being notified of the call, will dispatch the necessary number of the permit holder’s or the permit holder’s agent’s tow trucks to remove all police pulls from the scene. The permit holder receiving and accepting notification from the City of Longview public safety communications center will be responsible for each tow truck dispatched to the scene meeting all the requirements of this section and any statutory provisions of the State of Texas. If the permit holder after arrival at the scene determines, in conjunction with the police officer in charge, that assistance is needed that cannot be provided by the permit holder, then the police officer in charge will notify the public safety communications center to contact and cause the next available permit holder on the appropriate rotation list to be dispatched to the scene.
(Ord. No. 2925, § 2, 5-25-00; Ord. No. 3294, § 4, 2-12-04)