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• I ~ Ordinance 1746, .Page ,17 owner thereof is physically unable to drive such vehlcle, the officer shall request the owner to designate the wrecker company the owner desires to remove that vehicle. When the owner has designated the wrecker company desired, the pollee oiflcer shall communicate the fact Immediately to Police Department Headquarters, and it shall be the duty of :•hn dispatcher receiving such Lntormatlon at Ieadquarters to call the designated company provided the company can respond to the location within 20 minutes. In the event the company Dan not respond !n the designated time, the owner shall be so Informed and given an opportunity to designate another company. (d) In the event the owner of a vehlcle lnvolv~d In an accident or collision is physically unable to designate the wrecker company desired, or refuses to designate one, tl~e lnvestlgating otflcer shall communicate the fact immediately to Police Department Headquarters. Tlie Police Department shall maintain a wrecker rotation list which shall contain the names and addresses of each wrecker service company that compiles with the provisions of this ordinance In order that said company might be called upon for wrecker service by the Pollee Department. The pollee oiflcer receiving a call at Police Headquarters for wrecker service shall Dell the first wrecker company on the list to tow the disabled vehiole or move the same from the public streets of the city. After the company at t!~e top of the list receives a call then the company's name shall be placed at the bottom of the list and the next company shall be moved to tl~e top of the list and It shall receive calls. -This process shall be repeated until each company prov.lding wrecker service under the provisions of this ordinance has received calls. The Po1Lae Department shall notify each wrecker company in suftlclent time prior to Lts rendering said wreaker servlae Ln order that the company might adequately provide the necessary men and equipment to answer said calls. Speclilcally requested wreckers must be duly licensed by the State and able, to respond to tl~e scene within a~ twenty (20) minute time frame. Ii they, cannot respond !n that time frame, the oiflcer In charge will advise the requesting party and request a wrecker from the rotating list. • _'i