Baltimore City Council
File #: 14-0351    Version: 0 Name: Trespass Towing - Maximum Fee Per Tow
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 3/24/2014 In control: Judiciary and Legislative Investigations
On agenda: Final action: 12/5/2016
Enactment #:
Title: Trespass Towing - Maximum Fee Per Tow FOR the purpose of setting the maximum fee that can be charged per tow by a trespass tow operator; and generally relating to trespass towing.
Sponsors: Robert Curran, President Young, Carl Stokes, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, William H. Cole, IV, Sharon Green Middleton, Nick Mosby, Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, Brandon M. Scott, Bill Henry
Indexes: Fees, Towing, Trespass
Attachments: 1. 14-0351 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. BDC - 14-0351.pdf, 3. Transportation - 14-0351.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: Councilmember Curran
                                                                                                                                                          
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Trespass Towing - Maximum Fee Per Tow
 
FOR the purpose of setting the maximum fee that can be charged per tow by a trespass tow operator; and generally relating to trespass towing.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
  Article 15 - Licensing and Regulation
  Section(s) 22-8
  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 - Trespass Towing
 
ยง 228.  Charges.
 
  (a)  Schedule to be filed.
 
(1)      Every person engaged in providing towing services shall, at the time of application for a license, file with the Board a schedule setting forth the applicant's proposed charges for towing and for any services incident to towing.
 
(2)      The charges shall be stated clearly on the application for a towing services license filed by the person engaged in the towing business.
 
 
  (b)  Permitted basis.
 
The charges may be measured by mileage, time, and type of service or may be measured on a flat fee basis.
 
  (C) MAXIMUM CHARGE.
 
NO MATTER HOW CALCULATED, THE TOTAL CHARGES MAY NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF $250 PER TOW.
 
  [(c)] (D)  Changes.                                          
 
These charges shall not be changed without filing with the Board an amended schedule showing the charges proposed.
 
  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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