Ordinance 1984-07ORDINANCE NO. 84-7
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GILROY AMENDING
SECTION 24A.2. AND ENACTING SECTION 24A.12.
OF THE GILROY CITY CODE REGULATING TOWING
SERVICES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Section 24A.2 of the Gilroy City Code
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 24A.2. Towing list; application.
Any person desiring to be authorized to perform
towing services shall submit an "application for
towing service" to the chief of the police department.
The application shall include the name and business
address of the applicant, the name and residence
address of the owner or owners of the applicant; the
twenty-four-our telephone number by which the
applicant may be summoned; the name of any club or
organization by which the applicant is authorized to
provide road service to members; the location, size
and security features of the storage facilities on
which vehicles not otherwise consigned will be
stored as well as the location to which the public
must come to claim stored vehicles; a statement that
towing services will be provided on a twenty-four-hour
a day basis for each day of the year and that the
applicant will accept responsibility for any and all
personal property left in towed and stored vehicles;
a current business license; and a copy of the board of
equalization license required by the California Revenue
and Taxation Code.
SECTION II. Section 24A.12. is enacted to read as
follows:
Sec. 24A.12. Removal from private property - Infraction.
It shall be unlawful and an infraction for a towing
service to impose a charge on the owner of a motor vehicle
for hooking up or removing that vehicle under the provisions
of Vehicle Code Section 22658 without first complying with
sections 24A.2, 24A.5, 24A.6 and 24A.8 of this Chapter.
Any purported charge or fee imposed in violation of
this section is hereby declared illegal against public
policy, voidable and unenforceable.
SECTION III. Ail other ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
ORDINANCE NO. 84-7
SECTION IV. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in full force thirty (30) days from and after
its adoption and approval.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 21st day of May, 1984,
by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCI~MBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
APPROVED:
ALBERT, GAGE, KLOECKER,
MUSSALLEM, PATE, VALDEZ
and HUGHAN
NO~
NONE
ATTEST:
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ORDINANCE NO. 84-7
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I, SUSANNE Eo STEINMETZ, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do
hereby certify that the attached Ordinance No o' 84-7 is an
original ordinance, duly adopted by the Council of the City of
Gilroy at a regular meeting of said Council held on the ' 21st
~day of May , 19 84 , at which meeting a quorum was
pres ent o
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Official Seal of the City of Gilroy, this 25th day of
May , 19 84.
/City Clerk Of C'ity of Gilroy ~