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Audits, reports, rules and contracts about towing in Dallas–Fort Worth, each with a short summary in plain words and a link to the agency's own copy.
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Both counties list a $54 fee for a tow or boot hearing request. Dallas County has ten justice courts and Tarrant County eight precincts; a request goes to a justice court in the county the car was towed from.
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The rules our tool checks for Dallas: tow signs and written authorization or a photo for each private tow, free release before the car leaves the property, a police tow number within one hour, a storage lot inside the city named on the signs, the $100 boot limit, and no soliciting at police scenes.
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The citywide fee ordinance that raised Dallas's limits for private-property tows (to $165 for a car) and police-requested tows, changed the weight classes to match the state's, and raised wrecker permit and inspection fees. The marked-up text shows the old amounts next to the new ones.
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Approves a five-year, no-cost agreement with a towing-management company for the Sheriff's emergency and non-emergency tows, and sends revenue from auctions of unclaimed vehicles to a county fund.
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Replaced Denton's police-towing and nonconsent-towing articles with one article covering permits, signs, storage lots, booting and fees. Tow fees follow the state maximum, with a $15 local regulation fee; boot removal is capped at $85 plus $15; and storage lots must release cars at any hour once paid.
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The current fee list for police-ordered tows: $180 standard, $300 an hour heavy (two-hour minimum), $32 administrative, $22.85 impound and daily storage, $50 notification. The page also explains AutoReturn's role, the online vehicle search and online auctions.
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Audited the City's Auto Pound on Brennan Avenue for October 2014 to March 2016. It found inventory records did not show the true number of stored cars, auction checks were deposited 35 to 161 days late, and abandoned cars averaged 202 days in storage before auction. It lists the fees then charged.
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Describes the City-run Auto Pound on 50 acres at Vilbig Road (in use since 1985, about 2,120 cars on an average day), the release process, auctions every other Monday, and how damage claims are handled. It gives yearly impound counts of about 33,000 to 35,600 for fiscal years 2012 to 2016, and says the City looked at privatizing the pound in 2010 but stopped in August 2011.
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Explains Dallas's two tow systems: police-scene emergency wreckers (chapter 15D, seven zones, 36 permitted companies, cars to the Police Auto Pound unless the owner asks otherwise) and private-property tows (chapter 48A, 15 permitted companies). It lists the 2015 private-tow limits of $121 / $191 / $445.
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Tested whether Fort Worth's police-tow fee ($135 since January 2004) covered towing companies' costs and found the light and medium fee reasonable. It gives the fee history back to 2001, explains the rotation list (22 active contractors in 2014) and notes that drivers may choose their own tow company.
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