Subject: 9658/City Code/35-157/Vehicle Storage Cost
Date: Mon, 7 May 1990 15:16:00 -0500


                                ORDINANCE NO. 9658
                   
                   
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND PART II, CHATTANOOGA 
                   CITY CODE, SECTION 35-157, RELATIVE TO 
                   VEHICLE STORAGE COSTS.
                   
                                                     
                   
       	    	 SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE 
       CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That Part II, Chattanooga City 
       Code, Section 35-157 be amended by adding thereto a new 
       subparagraph (4) as follows:
            (4)	 The wrecker service shall notify the registered 
                 owners and lienholders, within fifteen (15) days 
                 after any vehicle is towed pursuant to a request by 
                 any officer or official of the City of Chattanooga, 
                 of the location of the stored vehicles and the 
                 costs of securing possession of the towed and 
                 stored vehicle.  Any wrecker service that fails to 
                 comply with the notice provisions of this section 
                 shall only be entitled to receive the costs of 
                 towing the vehicle and the costs for storing the 
                 vehicle during the fifteen (15) day notice period.  
                 The City of Chattanooga Police Department is hereby 
                 authorized to provide, upon written request, to the 
                 wrecker service company registration records on 
                 stored vehicles for the purposes of issuing the 
                 notice required by this section.
            
       	    	 SECTION 2.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance 
       shall take effect two (2) weeks from and after its passage as 
       provided by law.
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading Jan 14,	   1992.     _/s/________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
       
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:_______ DISAPPROVED:_______
       
       	    	      	   	     DATE:_________________ ______, 1992.
       
       
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       KOF:cjc	      	   	     	             MAYOR