City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2015-2353

• File #: 2015-2353
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 12/11/2015
• In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
• On agenda: 12/15/2015
• Final action: 12/21/2015
• Enactment date: 12/21/2015
• Enactment #: 72
• Effective date: 12/28/2015
• Title: Ordinance amending and supplementing the City of Pittsburgh Code, Title Five ("Traffic"), Article III ("Towing") by amending Chapters 521, 523 525 as well as Title VII, Article VII ("Service Businesses"), Chapter 764, with respect to tow businesses operating within the City and the towing fee schedule applicable thereto.
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 05 - TRAFFIC

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/28/2015	2	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
12/21/2015	2	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
12/16/2015	1		Affirmatively Recommended as Amended
12/16/2015	2	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended as Amended	Pass
12/16/2015	2	Standing Committee	AMENDED	Pass
12/15/2015	1	City Council	Waived under Rule 8	Pass
12/15/2015	1	City Council	Read and referred

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Ordinance amending and supplementing the City of Pittsburgh Code, Title Five ("Traffic"), Article III ("Towing") by amending Chapters 521, 523 525 as well as Title VII, Article VII ("Service Businesses"), Chapter 764, with respect to tow businesses operating within the City and the towing fee schedule applicable thereto.

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WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh does not currently operate its own tow pound and instead relies upon a private contractor for this purpose; and

WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh's current towing fee schedule has not been revised in many years and it does not reflect current market rates for such services; and

WHEREAS, the City's Department of Public Safety seeks to amend and supplement the City of Pittsburgh Code in order to establish a revised towing fee schedule, provide for the possibility of City-operated tow pounds in addition to contracted services with private towers and to make other miscellaneous revisions to the City's practices and procedures with regard to towing.

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. City of Pittsburgh Code, Title Five ("Traffic"), Article III ("Towing"), Chapters 521, 523 and 525, as well as Title VII, Article VII ("Service Businesses"), Chapter 764, are hereby amended and supplemented as follows:
TITLE FIVE: - TRAFFIC
ARTICLE III: - TOWING
CHAPTER 521: - SCOFFLAWS
? 521.01 - VEHICLE IMMOBILIZATION, REMOVAL AND IMPOUNDMENT.
Any vehicle having five (5) or more unpaid past due tickets, summonses or other process, issued against it, charging that the vehicle was parked, stopped or standing in violation of the Commonwealth Vehicle Code, this Traffic Title or any other traffic ordinance of the City is deemed to be a public nuisance and the Police Department, Pittsburgh Bureau of Police ("PBP"), Pittsburgh Parking Authority ("PPA") and/or any other authorized City agent assigned to traffic duty is hereby authorized to:
(a) Remove the vehicle or caus...