§ 6.80.450. Prohibited acts.

It is declared that the following acts are prohibited and unlawful and the license or permit of any person doing any such acts may be revoked, suspended, placed on probation or not renewed:

A.

To fail to comply with all reasonable and lawful requests of the owner or operator of the vehicle to be towed as to designation;

B.

To remove or transport any vehicle, the owner of which is in violation of any law of the metropolitan government or of the State of Tennessee, except by the explicit instructions of a metropolitan police officer or a state highway patrolman;

C.

To disregard the instructions of any metropolitan police officer or state highway patrolman during the transportation of the vehicle to its designation;

D.

To wait for employment by standing or parking upon any street, alley, road, highway or thoroughfare or upon public property;

E.

To interfere with the orderly flow of traffic along the streets, alleys, roads, highways or thoroughfares, except upon the direction of a metropolitan police officer or state highway patrolman;

F.

To engage in cruising, except in those places and under the circumstances which the commission by rules and regulations may permit;

G.

To invite or permit loitering within or near his wrecker;

H.

To transport a vehicle other than by the most direct and safest route and without delay from the point of pickup to the assigned designation;

I.

To fail to comply with any of the laws of the metropolitan government, the State of Tennessee, the United States or the rules and regulations of the commission which reflect unfavorably on the fitness of the driver, driver helper or employee to be employed in the operation of a wrecker service.

J.

Reserved.

Flashing Lights. Any person operating a wrecker may utilize flashing lights only when standing on the roadway for the purpose of removing a vehicle and while actually towing any vehicle. Wreckers are prohibited from using flashing lights while going or returning from the location of vehicles if not engaged in towing such vehicles. Further, the operators of tow vehicles shall observe all traffic regulations while going to or returning from the locations of vehicles or while engaged in the towing of vehicles.

However, the operator of a wrecker who is operating a wrecker for an emergency wrecker service licensed by the metropolitan transportation licensing commission may turn on the yellow rotating beacon prior to reaching the location of the incident if both of the following two criteria are met: First, the operator must be responding to an incident scene called into the company by the emergency communications center. Second, traffic has slowed down because of the incident to a point that will prevent the wrecker from getting to the scene in a timely manner, which is thirty minutes after receiving the call from the emergency communications center.

(Ord. BL2010-649 § 1, 2010; Amdt. 1 to Ord. BL2009-525 § 1, 2009; Ord. BL2009-434 § 1, 2009; Ord. BL2000-247 §§ 14, 15, 16, 2000; Ord. 96-612 § 1 (part), 1996)