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 up to and including 1/2 ton.
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 onsite 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
or 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.
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.
TRUCK
Any motor vehicle other than an automobile, as defined above, and
which requires heavy-duty towing.
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.