02-07-12 Wrecker Committee Meeting and Public Hearing

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§ 78-27� LA PORTE CODE giving the make, model, motor number and state .license number of each additional towing vehicle. He shall also file the proper permit fee to cover the additional number of towing vehicle permits. (b) He shall also file with the city secretary or his designee a new insurance policy, or a Proper endorsement on the existing policy, covering the additional towing vehicles. (c) The city secretary or his designee shall examine such supplemental towing vehicle application, fee and policy, and if they are in order, shall issue towing vehicle permits covering each additional towing vehicle. (d) Whenever an owner wishes to discontinue the use of a towing vehicle during the period covered by his permit and replace it with another, he shall file an affidavit stating that he has discontinued using the towing vehicle covered by his permit, and desires to use another towing vehicle in its place. He shall also a teach a certificate from his insurer that such insurer has been notified and has agreed to make the appropriate transfer of coverage. The city secretary shall, upon the payment of a transfer fee in an amount established by the city and listed in appendigA of this Code, issue the owner a new permit covering the replacement towing vehicle as provided in section 78-273, and cause the old towing vehicle permit to be canceled and voided. In the affidavit, as well as the certificate from the insurer, the old and new towing vehicle shall be described by make, model, motor number and license number: (Code 1970, § 6-6; Ord. No. 1746, § 1(6-6), 2-25-91; Ord. No. 96-2136, § 1(6-6), 9-23-96) Secs. 78-275-78-295. Reserved. Subdivision = Auto T ether Permit Sec. 78-296. Required. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate, or cause to be driven or operated, any auto wrecker upon any public street in the city for the purpose of towing or hauling wrecked or disabled vehicles, either for hire or as an incident to obtaining the business of .storing, wrecking or repairing such wrecked or disabled vehicles, without having first obtained an auto wrecker permit, from the city, duly issued to such person to operate an emergency auto wrecker on the streets of the city. The holder of an auto wrecker permit shall not be required to obtain a towing vehicle permit in addition thereto.. (Code 1970, § 6-2(b); Ord. No. 1746, § 1(6-2(b)), 2-25-91; Ord. No. 96-2136, § 1(6-2(b)), 9-23-95) . Sec. 78-297. Aliplication. Any owner desiring to operate an emergency auto wrecker in the city shall make application to the city secretary for an auto wrecker permit. Such application shall be submitted upon forms to be furnished by the city secretary, and the applicant shall furnish the foLowing proof -arid information with his application: (1) The name and address of the owner shall be stated, and if the auto wrecker is to be operated under the name of some company other than the name of the owner, then the Supp. No. 24 CD78.24