Record #: O2020-2864   
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 5/20/2020 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
Final action: 5/24/2023
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 9 and 2 regarding commercial towing
Sponsors: Villegas, Gilbert
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 25 Dept. of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 44 Towing Disabled Vehicles, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 84 Towing Unauthorized Vehicles
Attachments: 1. O2020-2864.pdf
Related files: R2023-766
Chicago City Council May 20th, 2020 Referred to Committee on Finance

ORDINANCE
SECTION 1. Chapter 9-44 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language struck through and inserting the language underscored, as follows:
9-44-030 Commercial towing vehicle - Daily report required.
It shall be the duty of every person operating a commercial towing vehicle for hire in the city to prepare and deliver to the superintendent of police every day, before noon, a legible and correct report, on a form prescribed by the superintendent, of every motor vehicle picked up or towed by such operator from any public way in the city during the preceding twenty-four hours. The report shall contain the date upon which the towing service was performed, the locations from and to which the vehicle was towed, the name and address of the owner of the towed vehicle, the name and address of the person requesting the towing service, the name and license number of the chauffeur, if the vehicle was chauffeur-driven, and the make, type, state license plate number, and state registration number of the towed vehicle, the city wheel tax license emblem number of the towed vehicle and the city wheel tax license emblem number of the towing vehicle, engine number and serial or factory number of the towed vehicle^ the tow truck owner's Commercial Vehicle Relocator's License number if applicable, the state license plate number of the tow truck, the operator's Relocation Towing Employment Permit number if applicable, and, the operator's Driver's License number or Commercial Driver's License number, as applicable. This section shall not apply to any person operating a towing vehicle exclusively for the purpose of towing vehicles owned by such person.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance) 9-44-070 Violation - Penalty.
Any person or any officer of any corporation, or any partner of any partnership who:
knowingly submits a daily report reguired bv Section 9-44-030 with incorrec...

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