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Audits, reports, rules and contracts about towing in Corpus Christi, each with a short summary in plain words and a link to the agency's own copy.
These are government documents. We link to the official copies. Summaries are ours; read the record itself before you rely on it.
Address and hours of the City impound lot, what to bring to get a car released (photo ID, proof of insurance, current registration or a paid one-trip permit; a notarized letter if someone else picks it up), the fee list, and phone numbers for investigative holds and belongings.
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The City's towing rules: permits, the police rotation list, maximum fees (§ 57-249), itemized invoices, the chief's power to order refunds of overcharges on police tows, access to belongings left in a towed car (§ 57-250), photos before a private-property tow (§ 57-253), and how a towing fee study is requested (§ 57-254).
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Lists a Towing Hearing Fee of $54 and the payment methods the courts accept. An older Justice of the Peace page (2017) still online lists $20; the tool treats the 2024 schedule as current.
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nuecesco.com blocks scripted reads; read in a browser on 2026-10-06 for the tool's pack. Not re-opened in this pass.
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CCPD's one-page fee sheet. It matches the City Code except for the drop fee, which the sheet lists as $55 and the City Code (§ 57-249(4)(a)3) lists as $50.
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Raised the maximum wrecker fees, let the City contract with an outside company to administer parts of the wrecker program (but not law enforcement or the choice of rotation companies), gave Category B wreckers 60 minutes to respond, and widened the grounds for denying or revoking a permit. In effect October 1, 2022.
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Explains the 2022 changes. It says an officer was assigned to oversee wrecker companies, that Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Harris County and Round Rock use tow management companies, and that the fee increase was expected to bring in about $200,000 a year, recovered from owners at pickup or from the sale of unclaimed vehicles.
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A five-year agreement, up to $135,000, for software used to dispatch rotation tows and manage the City impound lot. Future years are paid per tow: $3.00 for each City tow and $0.50 for each private tow. The memo estimates about 14,000 vehicles a year are towed to the City lot.
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A $779,279.78 contract to build a 2,700-square-foot forensic garage and evidence room at the impound lot and to rebuild its parking area. The project came from Proposition 7 of the 2012 bond election, approved by voters on November 6, 2012.
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Added the $20 City administrative fee per vehicle recovered from the City impound lot and moved $61,000 into the budget for four civilian impound positions and software upgrades.
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A surprise cash count at the City's vehicle impound lot on September 23, 2016, under the 2016 audit plan. The memo to the Audit Committee says the cash fund was intact.
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The signed audit memo attached on Legistar is a scanned PDF with no readable text; our summary is from the agenda memo.
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Replaced article V of chapter 57. The staff memo lists the changes: higher fees, no charge for dollies or go-jacks, the photo rule for private-property tows, owners' access to belongings, and larger trucks for the light rotation list. It says police held six meetings with wrecker companies from 2012 to 2014.
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