Baltimore City Council
File #: 05-0287    Version: 0 Name: Towing Services - License Fees
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 11/21/2005 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/8/2006
Enactment #: 06-357
Title: Towing Services - License Fees FOR the purpose of modifying the application, license, and related fees for persons engaged in certain towing services; correcting, clarifying, and conforming certain language; and generally relating to the licensing and regulation of towing services.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: Fees, Licensing, Towing
Attachments: 1. 287-1st Reader.pdf, 2. 05-0287 - 3rd Reader.pdf

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

 

                     * WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.

                     THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.

                     INTRODUCTORY*

 

                     CITY OF BALTIMORE

                     COUNCIL BILL          

 

                                                                                                                                                           

Introduced by:  The Council President

At the request of:  The Administration (Department of Transportation)                                           

 

 

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Title

Towing Services - License Fees

 

FOR the purpose of modifying the application, license, and related fees for persons engaged in certain towing services; correcting, clarifying, and conforming certain language; and generally relating to the licensing and regulation of towing services.

Body

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments

Article 15 - Licensing and Regulation

Section(s) 22-5(a) and 22-6

Baltimore City Code

(Edition 2000)

 

SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

 

                     Baltimore City Code

 

                     Article 15.  Licensing and Regulation

 

                     Subtitle 22.  Towing Services

 

§ 22-5.  Applications.

 

(a)  In general.

 

(1)                     Applications shall be made on forms [to be] furnished by the Board.

 

(2)                     [The] WITH THE APPLICATION, THE applicant shall pay [to the Director of Finance a filing] A NON-REFUNDABLE APPLICATION fee of [$10] $100 [when the application is made].

 

 

                                          (3)                     Before the examination, the applicant shall pay an additional NON-REFUNDABLE fee, to be set FROM TIME TO TIME by the Board of Estimates[, which shall be] IN an amount sufficient to cover the cost to the City of necessary background checks and investigations.

 

§ 22-6.  Issuance; fees.

 

(a)  In general.

 

[Upon] ON approval BY THE BOARD of a license application [by the Board] AND PAYMENT OF THE APPLICABLE LICENSE FEE, the Director of Finance shall issue [a] THE license.

 

(b)  Annual fee.

 

The annual license fee [shall be $25] IS $50 [per] FOR EACH vehicle [utilized] TO BE USED by the licensee [to tow a motor vehicle] FOR TOWING  under this subtitle.

 

(c)  Replacement fee.

 

[In case of loss, mutilation, or destruction of] IF a license IS LOST, MUTILATED, OR DESTROYED, a duplicate shall be issued [at a cost of $2 per license] ON PAYMENT OF A REPLACEMENT FEE OF $10.

 

SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

 

SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.

 

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