City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0319

• File #: 09-0319
• Version: 0
• Name: Impound Towing - Fees
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 4/20/2009
• In control: City Council
• Title: Impound Towing - Fees FOR the purpose of setting maximum towing, storage, and related charges that may be imposed on the owners or operators of impounded vehicles; establishing a period within which these charges may not be increased; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related provisions; and generally relating to impound towing.
• Sponsors: Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, Mary Pat Clarke, William H. Cole, IV
• Indexes: Fees, Impoundment, Towing

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/27/2009	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
4/23/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/23/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/23/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/23/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/20/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
4/20/2009	0	City Council	Assigned

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: Councilmember Curran

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Impound Towing - Fees

FOR the purpose of setting maximum towing, storage, and related charges that may be imposed on the owners or operators of impounded vehicles; establishing a period within which these charges may not be increased; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related provisions; and generally relating to impound towing.
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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments
Article 31 - Transit and Traffic
Section(s) 31-42(d) and 31-47
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 31. Transit and Traffic

Subtitle 31. Clear Streets and Impoundment

§ 3142. Employment of tow trucks.

(d) Fees.

(1) [The] SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATIONS SET IN PARAGRAPH (4) OF THIS SUBSECTION, THE towing charges shall be [set] AGREED TO in advance[, arrived at] by [agreement between] the towers, the Commissioner, and the Director[, with any]. ANY disputes as to [such] THE charges [to] SHALL be settled by the Commissioner.

(2) [In] IF the [event] towing is performed by City forces or vehicles and [no] THE employment of PRIVATE towers [becomes necessary] IS UNNECESSARY, the same [schedule of] TOWING charges [shall] apply.



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