Towed in Sacramento Library

Public records about towing in Sacramento

Audits, reports, rules and contracts about towing in Sacramento, 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.

SPD page: Towed Vehicles

Sacramento Police Department ·

The 24-hour dispatch number, how to get a release document at two records counters, the 30-day impound hearing (request within 10 days of the Notice of Stored Vehicle), and the 2024 fees.

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Code Compliance FAQ: Vehicle Abatement and Retrieval of Vehicles Removed by the City

City of Sacramento, Code Compliance ·

Explains the usual 3 to 10 days to fix a tagged vehicle, how to ask for an accommodation before a tow, how to find a removed vehicle (311 or 916-808-5471), and that unpaid vehicles may be sold.

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Sacramento City Code Chapter 5.144 (tow cars) and sections 10.08.110-10.08.120

City of Sacramento ·

City-based tow cars must carry their filed rate schedule and give a written receipt on request; any tow operator must tell an owner who they are and where the car is going; and the release fee applies to listed police tows, not private-property tows.

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SPD General Order 536.02: Vehicle Towing and Release

Sacramento Police Department ·

Definitions and procedures for storage, impound, evidence and recovered-stolen tows, including an inventory of each car's contents and the rule that private tows must release a car if the owner returns before it leaves.

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SPD Tow Rotation Program and the 2024 Tow Rotation Services Agreement (sample)

Sacramento Police Department ·

The rules for companies on SPD's rotation list: maximum rates ($235 a tow, $60 a day), no add-on fees, overcharges punished by suspension until the customer is repaid plus $100, required postings, property release and like-condition storage. The posted copy is a sample, not a signed contract.

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Code Compliance Division Tow Rotation Program

City of Sacramento, Community Development Department ·

A separate rotation list for removing abandoned, wrecked and inoperable vehicles, with the same $180, $235 and $60 fees and the end of the $50 junk-vehicle payment from January 1, 2024.

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Parking Violations Fines and Penalties (July 1, 2023): $100 boot removal fee

City of Sacramento, Public Works, Parking Services ·

The City's parking fine schedule, including the $100 vehicle release (boot) fee under City Code sections 10.08.120 and 10.36.080.

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Fine and Fee Justice: waiver of the $180 police tow fee

City of Sacramento, Economic Development Department ·

The City's page on its fines and fees reform effort. Its first reform waives SPD's $180 towing administrative fee for income-eligible City residents and lists the income limits by household size.

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