Texas Administrative Code

Texas Administrative Code

TITLE 16	ECONOMIC REGULATION
PART 4	TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION
CHAPTER 86	VEHICLE TOWING AND BOOTING
RULE §86.500	Reporting Requirements--Towing Company

(a) If a political subdivision begins regulating nonconsent tow fees, the towing company must update the fee schedules provided to the VSF and used by the towing company before the 30th day after the ordinance goes into effect.

(b) Any changes in nonconsent tow fees regulated by a political subdivision must be provided to the VSF by the towing company before the 30th day after the effective date of the change.

(c) Complete lists required. Each time a towing company provides a nonconsent towing fee schedule to the VSF, the towing company must include a complete list of all nonconsent towing fees charged by the towing company. Partial towing fee schedules are not acceptable. Each fee schedule required by this chapter is a complete schedule of all nonconsent towing fees of the company.

(d) If a municipality establishes private property tow fees that are less than the private property tow fees authorized by §86.455, the fee schedule must separately identify those municipalities and list each authorized fee.

(e) If a municipality establishes private property tow fees that are greater than the private property tow fees authorized by this section, the private property tow fee schedule may not exceed each fee authorized by §86.455.

Source Note: The provisions of this §86.500 adopted to be effective April 15, 2008, 33 TexReg 2940; amended to be effective May 3, 2010, 35 TexReg 3486; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7788; amended to be effective January 16, 2012, 37 TexReg 116