O68-08IENNE➢ALE ORDINANCE NO. 68 -4
AN ORDINANCE iNEN➢ING KENNEDALE ORDINANCE NO.
67-4, WHICH IS AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE
OPERATION OF WRECKERS FOR THE TOWING AND RE-
MOVAL OF VEHICTJFS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS
OF THE CITY OF KENNEDATaF, TEXAS; THIS AMEND-
MENT PROVIDING FOR A SEPARATE ROTATION LIST
FOR POLICE PULLS, TO BE RESTRICTED TO WRECKERS
AND WRECKER FIRMS MAINTAINING AN ESTABLISHED
PLACE OF BUSINESS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS
OF THE CITY OF KENNEDAT,F, TEXAS, AND CHANGING
THE PLACE FOR STORING VEHICLES ON POLICE PULLS
TO LOCATIONS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF
THE CITY OF KENNEDALE, AND CHANGING THE MAXI-
MUM CHARGE FOR TOWING A VEHICLE, AND OTHERWISE
CONTINUING ORDINANCE NO. 67-4 IN FULL FORCE
AND EFFECT AS ORIGINALLY ADOPTED.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENNEDALE,
TEXAS:
1. SECTION SEVEN, of Kennedale Ordinance No. 67-4, adopted
by the City Council of the City of Kennedale, Texas, on Febru-
ary 9, 1967, and regulating the operation of wreckers within
said City, is hereby amended, and shall hereafter read as
follows:
"SECTION SEVEN. Wrecker Rotation Lists, Procedure And
Qualifications.
"(a) The Chief of Police shall compile a master list,
in alphabetical order, of all wrecker companies meeting each
of the following qualifications, which list shall be known
as the Wrecker Rotation List for Owner's Request. Said list
shall be composed of wrecker companies which have:
(1) Been issued a license under this
ordinance;
(2) Requested to appear on such Wrecker
Rotation List;
(3) Indicated availability for call
twenty-four hours a day;
(4) Indicated availability of an
attendant twenty-four hours a day to
release impounded vehicles from the
wrecker company yards upon presentation
of proof of ownership or release by the
Police Department;
(5) Established uniform prices for
services rendered to standard passenger
automobiles not in excess of the following:
$12.50 for towing a vehicle from one point
in the City to another point within the
City of Kennedale; $10.00 an hour for use
of a dolly, such time to begin when the
dolly leaves the place of business and
to end when it is placed in position under
the vehicle; $10.00 an hour for removal of
a vehicle from a location off the street
right-of-way, such charge to be made from
the time the operator begins to remove said
vehicle until it is on a traveled portion of
the street; $10.00 an hour for removal of
a vehicle that is in some unusual condition,
even though within the street right-of-way,
which necessitates extraordinary work in
effecting its removal; S1.00 per day of
twenty-four hours for storage of an auto-
mobile, commencing with the time the vehicle
is placed in storage. (Hourly charges can
be in addition to the towing charge, as can
also the storage charge, provided that hourly
charges shall be computed to the next quarter
hour required in performing such extra work.)
u(b) The Chief of Police shall compile a second
master list, in alphabetical order, of all wrecker companies
meeting each of the qualifications listed in the preceding
Subparagraph (a) of Section Seven, and meeting the further
qualification that said wrecker company maintains a fixed
place of business situated within the corporate limits of
the City of Kennedale, Texas, which list shall be known as
the Wrecker Rotation List for Police Pulls.
"(c) When it becomes the duty of an investigating
police officer to summon a wrecker upon request or permis-
sion by the owner of a disabled vehicle that the rotation
list be used, then the investigating officer shall call
the name appearing on the Wrecker Rotation List for Owner's
Request who is next entitled to receive a call, and such
listed wrecker companies shall be entitled to receive calls
in consecutive rotation, beginning at the top and going to
the bottom of the list.
"(d) When it becomes the duty of an Investigating
office to summon a wrecker because the owner is unable, by
reason of physical condition or absence or arrest, to give
permission, or if the owner refuses to designate or give
permission to remove a vehicle, and said vehicle needs to
be removed because disabled or left in violation of law up-
on public property, or upon private property as a result of
an accident or occurrence on public property and the private
property is not owned by the owner of the vehicle, or on any
other occasion constituting a 'police pull' as heretofore
defined in this Ordinance, then the investigating officer
shall call the name appearing on the Wrecker Rotation List
for Police Pulls who is next entitled to receive a call,
and such listed wrecker companies shall be entitled to re-
ceive calls in consecutive rotation, beginning at the top
and going to the bottom of the list.
t`(e) The investigating officer shall determine by
call to Police Headquarters which wrecker company is next
in rotation on either of the rotation lists hereinabove men-
tioned. A wrecker company maintaining a place of business
within the corporate limits of the City of Kennedale may ap-
pear on both lists, if it meets the necessary qualifications
above set forth, and the summoning of a wrecker company under
one list shall not affect its right to be summoned on the
other list, according to the foregoing rules. If the wrecker
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company first called on either list is not available for
any reason, then the call shall be placed to the next con-
secutive listed wrecker company on the proper rotation list,
and when the lists, respectively, are completed, calls will
again start in rotation from the top of the respective lists."
2. Except as hereinabove amended, said Kennedale Ordinance
No. 67-4 is expressly continued in full force and effect as
originally adopted.
3. This Ordinance shall take force and effect immediately
upon its adoption and approval.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 14th day of November,
1968.
APPROVED:
Donal T. Lyon, Mayor Pr
City of Kennedale, Texas
ATTEST:
Jewe4l Boyd, City Seer
(CITY SEAL)