No person shall drive, operate, or cause to be operated, nor shall any person employ, permit, or allow another to drive, operate, or cause to be operated, any tow truck over any street in the city for the purpose of providing services for compensation without first having obtained from the appropriate authority a registration certificate authorizing such operation.
(Ordinance 2019-04, sec. 2, adopted 3/21/19)
This article shall apply to all tow truck operations in the city, to the extent that the city regulation thereof is not in conflict with state law, except as limited by the following:
(1) 
No city registration shall be required for any consent tow by a tow truck owner, whether or not such owner has a place of business located within the boundaries of the city.
(2) 
No city registration shall be required for a nonconsent tow by a tow truck owner, other than a police pull.
(3) 
City registration shall be required for police pulls in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(2005 Code, sec. 5.2.04)