2011-011 ORD WRECKER, TOWING AND STORAGE FACILITIES

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S. Each towing company requesting the towing fee study shall cooperate with the City to conduct the study. Each such towing company shall provide to the City information determined by the City finance department to be reasonably necessary to determine the fair market value of towing services regulated under this article. 6. The City finance department shall complete a towing fee study not later than the 120th day after receiving all information required under Subsection (5). 7. The City finance department shall present the City Council the results of the towing fee study. The City Manger shall give to each towing company that owns or leases tow trucks registered with the City written notice of the time, date, and location of the City Council meeting at which the study is to be considered. The notice must be sent by United States regular mail to the towing companies' addresses listed in the latest registration applications on file with the Chief of Police. 8. Based on results of the towing fee study, the City Council may change the non-consent towing and incident management fees. The maximum fees must represent the fair market value of the services of a towing company performing non-consent and incident management tows originating in the City. 9. The City is not required to conduct more than one towing fee study within a two-year time period, measured from the date the City Council most recently considered a towing fee study. Sec. 36-17. Unclaimed Vehicles. (a) The Department shall be notified, in a manner determined by the Department, by the storage facility that it is in the possession of a vehicle abandoned for (10) ten days with the following information: (1) the location from which the vehicle was removed and the date and time of removal, the reason for the removal of the vehicle; (2) a physical description of the vehicle to include the year, make, model, color, state, license plate number and the vehicle identification number, the trade name of the vehicle tow service; and (3) the name, address and telephone number of the vehicle storage facility to which the vehicle was taken; and the name of the operator of the towing vehicle. (b) When a storage facility acquires possession of private property, non- consent or police-towed motor vehicle, the storage facility is entitled to: (1) towing charges (not to exceed posted or set rates); -16-