(a) "Auxiliary site" means a tow vehicle storage lot located at a place other than the towing operator's premises.
(b) "Full-time" means twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, for the term of the license.
(c) "Normal business hours", for licensee, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day for the term of the license.
(d) "License" means a revocable authority, pursuant to the Toledo Municipal Code, enabling a towing operator to:
(1) Perform police ordered vehicle or other object tows.
(e) "Licensee" means any person holding a valid safety license. Any violation of this Chapter by an agent or employee of the licensee shall be deemed a violation by the licensee.
(f) "Person" means every natural person, partnership, limited liability company, single proprietorship, corporation, fiduciary, association or other entity.
(g) "Police ordered stored vehicle" means any vehicle or other towed object in storage after the completion of a police ordered tow.
(h) "Police ordered tow" means any towing order issued by the Toledo Police Department pursuant to the Municipal Code or by the statutes of the State.
(i) "Premises" and "primary premises" means the place where the towing operator's office is located.
(j) "Private tow" means any vehicle tow performed at the request or direction of the owner, or the agent of or the authorized representative of the owner.
(k) "Roll back truck" means a truck equipped with an electric or hydraulic winch and a platform having a minimum length of seventeen feet nine inches designed for the platform to be lowered to the ground to receive a vehicle pulled on it by the electric or hydraulic winch and then carried rather than pulled or towed.
(l) "Storage" means retention of a towed vehicle at the City operated Impound Lot.
(m) "Storage facility" means any location which has been licensed for storage by the Director of Public Safety as a storage facility, used or intended to be used to impound towed vehicles or other objects including any premises, auxiliary sites, lots, yard and buildings.
(n) "Store" means to place in storage.
(o) "Third party stored vehicle" means any vehicle in storage after completion of a third party tow.
(p) "Third party tow" means any tow requested by or ordered by any person who is neither the owner of the towed vehicle nor the agent or authorized representative of the owner, and made from or to any location within the City. A repossession tow made to or from any location within the City is a third party tow.
(q) "Tow" means to move or remove a vehicle or other object to another location using a tow vehicle. Towing includes the preparation of, the connection of and the disconnection of the vehicle and the tow vehicle.
(r) "Towing operator" means a person owning a business engaged in the towing of vehicles and, in some cases, in the storage of towed vehicles.
(s) "Tow vehicle" means any truck or other vehicle adapted or used for the commercial purpose of towing, winching, carrying or otherwise removing another vehicle.
(t) "Vehicle" means every device defined in Section 301.67 of the Traffic Code.
(u) "Tow vehicle operator" means any person driving or operating a tow vehicle.
(v) "Impound Lot" means the City owned and operated tow yard.
(Ord. 432-08. Passed 7-15-08.)