(A) Any wrecker company located in the city and duly licensed by the state and county may make application to the city to be placed on the city’s list of wrecker services called by the Police Department to remove wrecked and disabled vehicles from the public streets and highways. Effective January 15, 1999, a wrecker service is deemed to be located in the city only if it meets the following criteria:
(1) The wrecker service must maintain an office in the city, including a telephone and records of wrecker services provided within the city; and
(2) The wrecker service must regularly maintain at its office one or more serviceable wreckers, which must be listed for property taxes to an address located within the city limits.
(B) (1) The wrecker services on this list will be called on a rotating basis in cases where no preference is expressed or operator. An applicant must provide, in writing, such information as the Chief of Police shall require. All wrecker services on the rotation list must operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If vehicles are kept on-site, they must be kept entirely within a locked fence. The maximum charge for towing cars that are not wrecked when called from the rotation list shall be $40.
(2) Any wrecker service failing to answer three rotation calls within a seven-day period shall be subject to removal from the rotation list in the following manner, and shall be so notified in writing: first offense, 30 days; second offense, 60 days; third offense, indefinitely. To be placed back onto the rotation list after an indefinite suspension, the wrecker service must submit, in writing, to the Police Chief, proof that they are prepared to respond to calls as needed.
(3) Any other wrecker service located in the county and within five miles of the city may be called by a police officer when no rotation wrecker service is readily available.
(Code 2019, § 14-20.1) (Ord. passed 5-8-1989; Ord. passed 6-12-1990; Ord. passed 9-14-1998; Ord. passed 5-12-2003)