City Council Takes First Step In Regulating Private Towing
Written by Gary Poole
May 4, 2010 – 9:16 pm
After a lengthy and at time contentious debate during their afternoon work session, the Chattanooga City Council unamimously passed on first reading a new ordinance to regulate the non-consensual towing of vehicles from private property.
There was no debate once the measure came up for a vote during one of the shortest council sessions in the past two years, which clocked in at a brisk 16 minutes.
The new ordinance, which will come up for a second and final vote next Tuesday night, would set rates that companies can charge when towing illegaly vehicles from private property.
The rates will be $125 for daytime towing, $135 for nighttime towing, the same rates that had been proposed by the city Beer and Wrecker Board.
The ordinace had been brought back early before the council in order to have an the new rates in place prior to the Riverbend Festival next month.
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