Introduced

SB 232 - This act creates new requirements for towing companies operating tow trucks. The new requirements include displaying the business address in a location visible from the street, minimum two thousand square feet of vehicle storage space, minimum seven foot fencing around the vehicle storage space, minimum business hours for viewing and retrieval of stored vehicles, and maintaining a published and operational telephone and telephone number. This act also adds Franklin county to the exempted county list.

This act establishes a requirement that the Missouri State Highway Patrol compile a rotational list of licensed towing companies for the purpose of calling tow trucks to the scene of motor vehicle accidents. Additionally, except in Kansas City, tows performed under Section 304.155 shall not be dispatched through a third party dispatch system unless hired by the towing company. Any tow truck operator who stops and attempts to tow a vehicle from the scene of a motor vehicle accident without having been called from the rotational list shall be subject to criminal penalties as described in this act.

This act is substantially similar to provisions contained in SS/HB 1707 (2014).

MICHELA BIRK


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