Record #: O2014-2513   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 4/2/2014 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
Final action: 4/30/2014
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Chapters 3-56 and 9-84 regarding penalty for failure to purchase wheel tax license and regulations regarding non-consensual towing or relocation of unauthorized vehicles
Sponsors: Mendoza, Susana A., O'Shea, Matthew J.
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 3 - Revenue & Finance - Ch. 56 Wheel Tax Licenses, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 84 Towing Unauthorized Vehicles
Attachments: 1. O2014-2513.pdf
Referred to: Committee on License and Consumer Protection

ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City") is a body politic and corporate under the laws of the State of Illinois and a home rule unit of government under Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, as a home rule unit of government, the City may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the regulation of tow truck operators for non­consensual towing is necessary to promote the general health and safety of its citizens by protecting vehicle owners from towing mistakes, to expedite the recovery of non-consensual towed vehicles, to ensure that owners of towed vehicles can quickly redeem their cars, and to ensure towing in accordance with proper posting; and
WHEREAS, the City Council believes that the proposed safety regulations governing performing of non-consensual towing would promote the public safety by ensuring owners are informed as to the location of the towed vehicle in order to expedite the recovery of the vehicle by the owner; now, therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. The above recitals are expressly incorporated into and made a part of this ordinance as though fully set forth herein.

SECTION 2. Section 3-56-150 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding the language underscored and by deleting the language struck through, as follows:
3-56-150 Penalty.
(a) Any person who shall take, destroy, remove or obliterate any wheel tax license emblem provided for in this chapter, without the consent of the owner of the vehicle, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $200.00 for each offense. Every such wrongful destruction, obliteration or removal of such wheel tax license emblem from any vehicle shall be considered a separate offense. • ¦

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
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