The following words and terms when used in this
chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise:
AUTOMOBILE
A private passenger automobile, station wagon, van, sport
utility vehicle or pickup truck.
BASIC TOWING SERVICE
The removal and transportation of an automobile from a highway,
street or other public or private road, or a parking area, or from
a storage facility, and other services normally incident thereto,
but does not include recovery of an automobile that has left the roadway
and does not include any additional labor required to clean up the
scene.
INSIDE BUILDING
A vehicle storage facility that is completely indoors, having
one or more openings in the walls for storage and removal of vehicles
and is secured by a locking device on each opening.
MOTORCYCLE
A motorcycle, motor bike or bicycle with motor attached and
any other motor-operated vehicle similar to a bicycle or tricycle,
including all-terrain vehicles.
OUTSIDE SECURED
An automobile storage facility that is not indoors and is
secured by a fence, wall or other man-made barrier that is at least
six feet high and is equipped with a passive alarm system or a similar
on-site security measure. The facility is to be lighted at night.
OUTSIDE UNSECURED
An automobile storage facility that is not indoors and is
not secured by a fence, wall or other man-made barrier, and all other
storage facilities not defined above as inside building or outside
secured.
RECOVERY OF VEHICLE
The recovery of an automobile from a position beyond the
right-of-way berm, or from being impaled upon any other object within
the right-of-way or berm. It shall also include the recovery of a
vehicle which is overturned or on its side.
TRUCK
Any motor vehicle other than an automobile, as defined above,
and which requires heavy-duty towing.
TOW VEHICLE
A vehicle equipped with a boom or booms, winches, slings,
tilt beds, wheel lifts or under-reach equipment specifically designed
by its manufacturer for the removal and transport of private passenger
automobiles.
WINCHING
Moving a vehicle by use of the cable or winch from a position
that is not accessible for direct hookup by conventional means of
loading onto a tow vehicle. It shall not include pulling a motor vehicle
onto a tilt bed or car carrier or lifting a vehicle with a conventional
tow sling.
YARD TOW
The removal of the vehicle from the towing operator's storage
yard for the benefit of another towing operator who is taking the
vehicle from the storage site and whose tow vehicle is physically
unable to gain access to the vehicle while it is inside the storage
yard.