§ 5-50. Issuance, inspection sticker and inspection requirements.

The city council shall issue a license to provide emergency wrecker service to applicants who comply with the provisions of this article and shall issue an emergency wrecker inspection sticker to applicants upon inspection and approval of each vehicle. The emergency wrecker inspection sticker must be affixed securely to the upper left-hand corner of the windshield of the inspected wrecker. Before issuance of an emergency wrecker service license and inspection sticker, the following requirements must be met:

(a)

An applicant shall submit each emergency wrecker which will be used in the service for inspection in a manner determined by the chief of police, and each wrecker must comply with the following minimum requirements:

(1)

Each wrecker shall be not less than one ton in size and be equipped with booster brakes.

(2)

Each wrecker shall be equipped with a power-operated winch, winch line and boom, with a factory-rated lifting capacity of not less than six thousand (6,000) pounds, single-line capacity.

(3)

Each wrecker shall carry, as standard equipment, a tow bar, debris box, safety chains, a fire extinguisher, wrecker bar, broom, shovel and flares.

(4)

Each wrecker and all of its equipment shall be in safe and good working condition.

(5)

Each emergency wrecker shall have a towing dolly available.

(b)

Each licensee shall maintain twenty-four-hour wrecker service and shall maintain a twenty-four-hour telephone answering service.

(Ord. No. 659, § 3, 11-6-79; Ord. No. 2012-14, § 8, 8-28-12)