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Audits, reports, rules and contracts about towing in the Rio Grande Valley, each with a short summary in plain words and a link to the agency's own copy.
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Explains the 14-day written request (weekends and holidays excluded), the filing place and hours at 100 N. Closner in Edinburg, and links an information packet. The page tells people to call for the fee; the packet lists $54, no cash.
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The $54 fee is from the precinct 2-1 packet read 2026-10-06 for the tool's pack; other precincts may differ.
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Lists ten justice of the peace courts in Port Isabel, Brownsville, San Benito, Los Fresnos, Harlingen and La Feria. It does not mention tow hearings or a tow hearing fee.
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Requires a police certificate of registration for companies doing nonconsent tows, sets rotation-list rules, puts tow fees in the chapter 18 fee schedule, ties storage charges to state law and TDLR rule 85.722, and requires private-property tow operators to notify police within 30 minutes.
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Sets up McAllen's voluntary police rotation list: insurance, a $100 yearly company fee and $35 inspection fee per truck, reporting of abandoned rotation-tow vehicles, and the rates rotation companies agree to, including a $100 private-lot tow and a $40 drop fee.
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A $20 City administration fee collected by the vehicle depository when a nonconsent-towed vehicle is received and fees are collected, sent to the City or its designee.
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Brownsville's towing chapter: enforcement and fines, a city-magistrate tow hearing section, permits, wrecker certification, police rotation lists and rates, the $20 City administration fee, reports of lienholder-requested tows, and licenses for vehicle depositories.
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Gives a hearing before a city magistrate on probable cause for a tow, requested in writing before the sixth working day after storage, held within four working days, with a $50 filing fee. State law separately provides tow hearings in justice court within 14 days.
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We have not confirmed that the municipal court still holds these hearings; the tool does not send people to it.
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Maximum rotation-list charges for nonconsent tows, with an 'initial schedule' of collision haul, hourly, dolly, storage, preservation and labor charges, to be adjusted each December by City Commission resolution.
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No December resolution adjusting the schedule was found online.
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