Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 06-24-03 regular Council agenda — reading text

that such 128 wrecker vehicle owned by the licensee. Each permit for a wrecker vehicle shall state and the 129 wrecker has been inspected and approved under the direction of the Police Department shall be affixed to the inside of the windshield of the appropriate wrecker securely 130 permit 131 vehicle. The inspection fee shall be established by Council resolution upon recommendation by 3  and every wrecker permit shall 132 the City Manager. No wrecker permit shall be transferable, at 12:00 midnight on September 30 of the fiscal year in which it is issued. 33 expire 134 a form prepared and made 135 ( d) Applications for a wrecker permit shall be made upon 136 available by the Police Department. upon presentation of receipt for payment of the 13 7 occupational license. 138 139 ( e) This ordinance shall only apply to rotation wreckers and contracted wreckers 140 conducting business in the City. 141 OF SECTION 5. AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 38, SECTION 38- OPERATION 5 142 of Wreckers; 143 WRECKERS; WRECKER SELECTION. Chapter 38, Section 38- 5 Operation 144 Wrecker Selection, is hereby amended to read as follows: 145 146 Section 38- 5 Operation of Wreckers; Wrecker Selection. 147 148 ( a) If the owner or operator of a vehicle involved in an accident or collision is physically unable 149 to designate a desired wrecker company or declines to designate one. the investigating officer 150 shall communicate that fact immediately to police communications. The Police De.partment in 151 shall keep a master rotation list. in alphabetical order. of all wrecker companies participating 152 the wrecker rotation program, On receiving the first the communications communication.. 153 officer receiving such transmission at police headquarters shall call the first wrecker company to the wrecker 154 on the rotation list to tow the disabled vehicle. If a wrecker belonging compa!Y \ arrive the of accident within thirty- five ( 35) 155 receiving the communication fails to at scene an first wrecker 156 minutes. the investigating officer shall notify police communications. The 157 company called shall be cancelled and the next wrecker company on the rotation list shall be on the 158 called. The wrecker company whose call was cancelled shall be placed in last position In each 159 rotation list and a notation of failure to respond shall be recorded as a remark. to designate a 160 succeeding communication of the inability or refusal of the owner or operator wrecker. the next company on the list shall be called. and proper notation of each such call shall 161 within thirty- 162 be made on the master list. Six ( 6) failures to respond to the dispatched location constitute violation of this 163 five ( 35) minutes within a twelve (12) month rolling period will a 164 ordinance and may be groundsfor disciplinary action as provided for in Section 2 of this 165 ordinance. 166 167 W (h)No peFSOO wrecker operator shall follow m a motor vehicle any police ambulance, car street in to a report of an automobile 168 or wrecker which is traveling on a public response 169 collision or accident for the purpose of soliciting business, 170 of an accident or collision on the 171 W W No person shall drive a wrecker to or near the scene streets of the City for the purposes of soliciting business unless such person has been called to 172 the scene by the Police Department; provided, however, that when it is necessary to prevent 173 of this 174 death or bodily injury to any person involved in an accident or collision, the prohibition 175 subsection shall be inapplicable. 4 176 an accident determines that a vehicle which has been 77 ( e)@ When a police officer investigating to proceed safely under its own 178 involved in a collision or accident upon a public street is unable or operator thereof is physically unable to drive such vehicle, such 179 power, or when the owner that he or she the 180 officer shall request the owner or operator to designate the wrecker company owner or operator has designated the wrecker 181 ewaeF desires to remove the vehicle. When the 182 company desired, the police officer shall communicate that fact immediately to police 183 ReaGquarters communications, and it shall be the duty of the communications officer receiving a wrecker to the scene 184 such infonnation at headquarters to call the designated company to send an eooupatianal 185 of the accident or collision, provided that the vJ1ecker service has obtamea business in the city. Any 186 liOOflSe 8:fKi '. vreoker permit authoriziftg the vJfecker service to 00 38, 6( 5) of this 187 wrecker responding to accident scenes shall fulfill all requirements of Section 188 chapter. 189 scene of any wreck, accident or 190 W W No police officer investigating or present at the 191 collision on a public street shall directly or indirectly, either by word,gesture, sign or otherwise, recommend to any person the name of any particular person engaged in the wrecker service or 192 influence in manner the 193 repair business, nor shall any such officer influence or attempt to any decision of any person in choosing or selecting a wrecker or repair service. However, any 194 direct that a vehicle, 195 police officer, in the exercise of his discretion as a police officer, may from the 196 whether towed by a wrecker selected by the owner or operator of the vehicle or vH:lg the vehiele directly to the 197 wrecker rotation list, be taken by the driver of the vJfeoker to'. 198 ~ olice Department headquarters and there held by the City for any lawful purpose. 199 200 W ill Each wrecker company licensed to operate in the City shall have prepared billheads of a 201 with the name and address of the wrecker company printed thereon. The operator wrecker, before removing a disabled vehicle ITom the scene, shall prepare a bill on such billhead 202 203 fonn showing the total amount charged for towing service, in triplicate, the original which of 204 shall be given to the owner or operator of the disabled vehicle or his authorized representative, 205 one copy attaehed to the police report, and the other copy retained by the owner of the 206 wrecker. 207 vehicles are not vehicles, 208 ( t) g). (is hereby declared and detennined that wrecker It emergency