Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 01-24-06 Workshop — reading text

View/ CHAPTER 7- 11. WRECKERS AND WRECKER COMPANIES * Page 3 of8 capacity of not less than eight thousand ( 8, 000) pounds; c. Has a commercially manufactured power winch pulling capacity of not less than eight thousand ( 8, 000) pounds; d. Must be equipped with a cradle tow plate, tow sling and bar with safety chains, and/ or wheel lifts; e. If double winch constructed, both winches must be able to operate both jointly and independently; f. If equipped with a hydraulic boom, it must elevate and extend; g. A roll- back wrecker willqualify as long as it meets the minimum requirements of having minimum a ten thousand ( 10, 000) pound gross vehicle weight with a sixteen- foot bed, dual wheels, and one winch with an eight thousand ( 8, 000) pound pulling capacity, and meets all other equipment requirements; h. Must be equipped with a brake lock system. 2) Heavy-duty wrecker: a. Has a minimum manufacturer capacity of not less than thirty thousand ( 30, 000) pounds gross vehicle weight; b. Shall be equipped with a commercially manufactured power crane and winch having a manufacturers' rating of at least fifty thousand 50, 000) pounds; c. Must be equipped with airbrakes; d. Must have dual rear wheels; e. Must be equipped with cable capable of withstanding the required pulling capacity. b) Equipment required that each wrecker must have to tow on the public streets of the city, and to be on the city maintained rotation and/ or selection lists: 1) Each vehicle must be properly equipped with clearance lights, marker lights, and amber colored emergency light, rotor beam or strobe type, an mounted in such a manner that it can be seen in all directions; 2) Wreckers shall be kept in reasonably good appearance and shall be equipped with all fenders, doors, bumpers, and hood; 3) One heavy duty push broom; 4) One shovel; 5) One axe; 6) One crowbar or prybar; 7) One minimum five ( 5) pound dry chemical fire- extinguisher or equivalent displaying a current inspection tag or sticker, performed within the last twelve 12) months; 8) Dollies ( General duty wreckers- excluding roll- backs); 9) One set of jumper cables; 10) One set of red triangles and signal flares; 11) Safety chains; 129? hilite=wreckers; wrecker; http:// library1.municode. com/mcc/ Doc View/ 11418/ l/ 1/19/ 2006 CHAPTER 7- 11. WRECKERS AND WRECKER COMPANIES * Page 4 of8 12) One four-way lug wrench; and, 13) One pair of bolt cutters. c) Liability insurance required: Each applicant shall procure and keep in full force and effect a policy or policies of garage liability and property damage insurance issued by a casualty insurance company authorized to do business in the state, and in the standard form approved by the board of insurance commissioners and the coverage provision insuring the public from any loss or damage that may arise to any person or property by reason of the operation of a wrecker of the company including " on hook" coverage for motor vehicles while bei ng towed or transported by the wrecker company, and providing that the amount of recovery on each wrecker shall be in the limits of not less than the following sums: 1) For damages arising out of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident, onehundred thousand dollars ($ 100, 000. 00); 2) For damages arising out of bodily injury to or death of two ( 2) or more persons in anyone accident, three hundred thousand dollars ($ 300, 000. 00); 3) For injury to or destruction of property in anyone accident, fifty thousand dollars ($ 50, 000. 00). The city shall be added as an additional insured to the policy or policies when the wrecker company is on any of the police department's wrecker and rotation lists. Ord. No. 30- 93, 9 1, 12- 16- 93) Sec. 7- 11-4. Wrecker selection list. a) Police communications shall maintain a wrecker selection list. This list will include, in alphabetical or numerical order, all companies that do not own their own wrecker but may require the services of a wrecker, whether to tow their company owned vehicle or any privately owned vehicle, if designated to do so by the vehicle owner, if wrecked or disabled on the public streets of the city. The selection wrecker service shall meet all minimum requirements as specified in section 7- 11~ 3. The authorization to b e a selection wrecker for any company must be submitted to the police department in writing. Ord. No. 30- 93, 9 1, 12- 16- 93) Sec. 7- 11- 5. Wrecker rotation lists. a) If the of a vehicle involved in an accident or collision is physically unable to owner designate the wrecker company desired or refuses to designate one, the investigating officer shall communicate that fact immediately to police department headquarters. The police department shall keep separate master wrecker rotation lists for general use, bridge rotation, and heavy- duty rotation. The wrecker rotation lists will be in numerical inspection order and will include all wrecker companies which: 1) Have been issued a vehicle permit and inspection permit; 2) Have applied to be on such lists; 3) Maintain twenty- four (24) hour wrecker service with wreckers; 4) Must meet all special and minimum requirements as herein established. View/l1418/ 1/129? hilite= wreckers; wrecker; 1/ 19/2006 http:// libraryl. municode. com/mcc/ Doc CHAPTER 7- 11. WRECKERS AND WRECKER COMPANIES * Page 5 of8 b) General wrecker rotation list requirements: All minimum requirements for the general- duty wreckers and equipment will apply. c) Heavy- duty wrecker rotation list requirements: Wreckers qualified, as defined in section 7- 11- 3( a)( 2) to tow heavy-duty trucks and vehicles, and equipment requirements will apply. d) Bridge rotation list requirements: Due to unusual circumstances arising from Pensacola Bay Bridge traffic and restraints, wrecker companies desiring to be on the bridge rotation list must be able to conform to the special requirements as follows: 1) Maintain a response time to all calls within fifteen ( 15) minutes from the location of the wrecker business to the Pensacola Bay Bridge on a twenty- four ( 24) hour basis. Response time will be measured from the time the wrecker company receives the call from police communications until the wrecker arrives on the scene. 2) Maintain a place of business, as defined in section 7- 11- 12, within five ( 5) miles of the Pensacola Bay Bridge. 3) Comply with all other provisions of this chapter and as stated for the general rotation list. e) Onreceiving the first communication, the dispatcher receiving the communication at police headquarters shall call the first wrecker company on the list to tow the disabled vehicle and remove the same from the public streets of the city. If a wrecker belonging to the wrecker company receiving the communication fails to arrive at the scene of the accident within thirty 30) minutes for general wrecker rotation and heavy-duty or fifteen ( 15) minutes for a bridge rotation call, the investigating officer shall notify police headquarters. The first wrecker called shall be canceled and the next wrecker on the rotation list called. The wrecker whose call was canceled shall be placed in the last position on the rotation list. In each succeeding communication of the inability or refusal of the owner to designate a wrecker, the next company on the list shall be called, and proper notation of each call shall be made on the individual master wrecker card. f) When responding to a rotation call, each business shall charge as a wrecker towing fee an amount that is fair and reasonable, but in no instance to exceed eighty- five dollars ($ 85. 00) for towing disabled vehicles on the streets of the city, when the vehicle requires only the normal wrecker services. In addition, companies required to store vehicles at their facilities shall charge as a storage fee an amount that is fair and reasonable, but in no instance to exceed ten dollars 10. 00) per day. Failure to co mply will cause the wrecker business to be removed from the master wrecker rotation lists kept at police headquarters. g) Requests for voluntary removal from any of the wrecker rotation lists require a written statement to be submitted to the police department before removal from any of the lists. Ord. No. 30- 93, 9 1, 12- 16- 93; Ord. No. 43- 96, 91, 9- 12- 96; Ord. No. 36- 97, 91, 10- 23- 97; Ord. No. 11- 01, 92, 3- 8- 01) Sec. 7- 11- 6. Bills; billing procedure. Each wrecker company licensed to operate within the city shall have prepared billheads with the name and address of the wrecker company printed thereon. The operator of a wrecker, before removing a disabled vehicle, shall prepare a bill on the billhead form showing total amount charged for towing service, in triplicate, a copy of which shall be given to the owner of the disabled vehicle or