(A) The licensee shall provide a light-duty wrecker or heavy-duty wrecker or both of sufficient size and weight, as defined in § 113.01.
(B) All wreckers shall be equipped with warning lights required under state law.
(C) The licensee shall provide continuous 24-hour-a-day service each day of the year, and there shall be an attendant on duty at the storage lot during regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.), Monday through Friday, except for emergencies and wrecker service calls. The daytime calls for the daytime rate will be for calls received from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The nighttime call rate will be for calls received from 5:01 p.m. until 7:59 a.m., Monday through Friday. The night rate will be charged for all calls received on weekends and holidays.
(D) The licensee shall assume all liability and shall indemnify and save the city harmless from such liability for damages sustained by vehicles while being towed or stored and for all personal injuries occurring to any of the firm’s employees or other persons and shall maintain the required insurance policies.
(E) The licensee shall not release any vehicle directly impounded by the city without authorization by the Police Department.
(F) The licensee shall charge for their services such rates as may be fixed by the City Council.
(G) Wrecker services shall perform towing service for the city on a rotation basis.
(H) No licensee shall intercept police calls by short-wave radio for the purpose of soliciting business.
(I) The licensee shall provide:
(1) Available space for properly accommodating and protecting a minimum of 15 disabled motor vehicles to be towed or otherwise removed from the place where they are disabled. The storage space for vehicles shall be enclosed by a minimum six-foot chain link fence or a fence of similar strength and shall have all entrances and exits secure from public access; and
(2) A storage vault or storage room on the storage lot or premises which is adequate to secure and protect personal property, which may be left in vehicles towed to a private wrecker.
(J) The following regulations for wrecker operators shall apply.
(1) Operator must have a valid Class “C” operator’s license issued by the State Department of Motor Vehicles, G.S. § 20-7.
(2) Wrecker operators will be responsible for clearing debris from highway caused by accident and will remove any parts from the highway that are torn or come off any vehicle as the result of an accident.
(3) Wreckers must arrive at scene within 30 minutes upon notification of a request for wrecker; if not, the next wrecker on rotation will be dispatched.
(4) Wrecker operators or owners of wreckers will not argue or show disrespect toward any officer or other wrecker operator at the scene of the accident.
(5) Any complaints by wrecker operators or owners will be investigated by the Wrecker Inspector when they are properly documented and signed.
(K) (1) The name of the wrecker company must be clearly printed on both sides of the wrecker with day and night telephone numbers. Magnetic signs are permissible.
(2) Wrecker facilities and safety and service equipment will be subject to inspection by the Wrecker Inspector any time.
(3) Only one day and night telephone number will be accepted for rotation calls.
(4) Each wrecker company must have individual storage lots and/or facilities for inside storage.
(5) In emergency circumstances, an officer may bypass the rotation list.
(Prior Code, § 113.03) (Ord. passed 5-9-1989)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see G.S. § 20-7