File #: Int 0628-2003    Version: * Name: In relation to towing rates.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 12/15/2003
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to towing rates.
Sponsors: Philip Reed, Diana Reyna, Erik Martin Dilan, Kendall Stewart
Council Member Sponsors: 4

Int. No. 628

 

By Council Members Reed, Reyna, Dilan and Stewart

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to towing rates.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 20-509 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended to read as follows:

§20-509 Rates.  a. Except as otherwise provided, charges for the towing of vehicles shall not exceed [fifty] eighty dollars for the first mile or fraction thereof and four dollars for each additional mile or fraction thereof; provided, however that where a motor vehicle has been booted by a person licensed pursuant to subchapter 32 of this chapter in a private parking lot as defined in paragraph 3 of subdivision b of section 20-531 of such subchapter and such vehicle is subsequently towed, no additional charge may be imposed for the towing of such vehicle.

§2.  Paragraph 4 of subdivision b of section 20-518 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended to read as follows:

4.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, a towing company that removes an accident vehicle to its storage facility at the place of business which qualifies such company for participation in the directed accident response program or to its auxiliary storage facilities approved by the commissioner, shall not charge for the towing of a vehicle registered at a weight of ten thousand pounds or less and the first day of storage for such vehicle a fee exceeding eighty dollars.  A towing company participating in the directed accident response program shall not charge for the towing of an accident vehicle registered at a weight of more than ten thousand pounds and the first day of storage for such vehicle a fee exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars.  Such fees shall be inclusive of all charges for the removing and towing of such vehicle to such storage facility and for the first day of storage. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, a towing company participating in the arterial tow program that removes a passenger vehicle weighing less than four thousand five hundred pounds gross vehicle weight from an arterial roadway, shall not charge for the towing of such a vehicle a fee exceeding eighty dollars for the first mile or fraction thereof and four dollars for each additional mile or fraction thereof.

 

§3. This local law shall take effect 60 days after it is enacted.