(a) Upon receipt of the aforesaid application, certificate of insurance or acknowledgement thereof, and the license fee, the Director of Finance shall notify the Director of Public Safety who shall cause an inspection to be made of the equipment of the applicant.
(b) Should the applicant not hold a valid special use permit for the applicant's premises and/or any auxiliary site to be used by the applicant, the Director of Public Safety may provide the applicant with a letter of intent to issue a towing license contingent upon granting of a special use permit by the City.
(c) When the Director of Finance is assured that a special use permit has been issued for the applicant's premises and any auxiliary site to be used by the applicant, the Director of Finance shall issue to the applicant a towing license and, as evidence thereof, shall issue a decal for each tow vehicle bearing thereon an assigned tow vehicle license number. The decal shall be permanently affixed to the lower left corner of the windshield of each such tow vehicle.
(d) When a license has been issued and the decals affixed as above, the Commander of the Police Records Section shall cause the name of the licensee to be entered upon the police tow list. The Commander of the Police Records Section shall divide the City of Toledo into at least three (3) approximately equal towing districts as determined by the Safety Director and shall maintain a police tow list assigning each licensee to one of the tow districts to provide as nearly as possible equal towing service in each of the districts and attempting to assign the towing company to the district within which the tower maintains its principal place of business, provided however, in the event that a tower cannot be assigned to the district where its principal place of business is located, it may be assigned, if possible, to an adjacent district. Police calls within any given district shall be rotated among the towers assigned to that district.
(Ord. 432-08. Passed 7-15-08.)