No person shall solicit any wrecker business in any manner,
directly or indirectly, within the city at the scene of a wrecked
or disabled vehicle, regardless of whether the solicitation is for
the purpose of soliciting the business of towing, repairing, wrecking,
storing, trading or purchasing the vehicle. The presence of any person
engaged in the wrecker business who has not been notified by the department
of public safety pursuant to this article or by the owner of the vehicle,
on any street, at an accident scene or place of disablement, shall
be prima facie evidence of a solicitation and violation of this section.
(2005 Code, sec. 5.2.40)
No employee of the city shall recommend to any person, directly
or indirectly, either by word, gesture, sign or otherwise, the name
of any particular wrecker service. However, city employees may offer
to notify the next certificate holder on the rotation list of the
need for wrecker service.
(Ordinance 2019-04, sec. 5, adopted 3/21/19)
Each certificate holder under this article must maintain a fee
schedule for police pull services, which fees shall be the same as
its fees for its non-police pulls requiring the same services.
(2005 Code, sec. 5.2.42)
Any wrecker service operator, whether a certificate holder or
not, shall cease the removal of a vehicle upon request of the vehicle’s
owner or operator and upon payment of the charges incurred to that
point, except in the case of police pulls and cases in which the police
officer in charge determines that public safety requires the removal
of the vehicle.
(2005 Code, sec. 5.2.43)
Any wrecker service operator, whether a certificate holder under
this article or not, shall at all times comply with all rules pertaining
to minimum insurance requirements and minimum safety standards for
the operation of tow trucks adopted by the state commission of licenses
and regulation pursuant to article 6687-9b, V.T.C.S.
(2005 Code, sec. 5.2.44)
