The Need For A Better Towing Enforcement System

This is a really good article link about the public contesting towing fees. It would appear that there are some unscrupulous towing companies that do abuse their position as a city contractor and illegally tow cars. There are also towing companies that are charging unauthorized fees. Both the illegal towing and the unauthorized fees are wrong. Its not good for the public or the scores of towing companies who do their job with integrity to be caught up in a situation this contentious. I think better marking of the tow zones and cameras watching the zones would solve a lot of problems

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Cameras in Chapel Hill aid tow companies - Orange County - NewsObserver.com

Cameras in Chapel Hill aid tow companies

BY KATELYN FERRAL - Staff Writer

Newsobserver.com

CHAPEL HILL -- Chapel Hill may change its towing rules after an upward spike in complaints about predatory towing downtown.is a camera a tower or wreckers best friend?

Companies have been using surveillance cameras to catch illegal parkers on private business lots - a tactic towing companies call innovative, but others call predatory.

"It's a very negative experience for people," Town Manager Roger Stancil said

current town rules, passed in 2008, require tow companies to post clear, large signs about towing rules on the lot, submit a report to police 30 minutes after a car is towed and cap fees at $100.

There are no rules against using cameras on private lots.

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There are going to be some busy towers in New York

City to give red-light scofflaws the hook

By DAVID SEIFMAN City Hall Bureau Chief

Last Updated: 7:46 AM, August 2, 2010

Posted: 3:16 AM, August 2, 2010

EXCLUSIVE

The city is about to put the brakes on thousands of drivers who've beaten the red-light camera program out of $47 million, The Post has learned.
The red-light runners will be in for a shock when they check their parking-violation records and find past-due summonses dating back to 2003 added to their accounts.
And that's not the worst of it.

About 40,000 drivers who owe less than $350 each in unpaid parking tickets and, therefore, haven't been subject to towing are going to leap onto the towing hit lists when the unpaid red-light infractions are added to their totals.

Starting Sept. 13, following public announcements, city marshals will be authorized to tow any vehicle with a combined $350 owed for parking tickets and red-light summonses.

Red-light summonses have been overseen by the Transportation Department since 1993 and weren't included in Finance Department's database of parking violations.

As a result, city marshals and deputy sheriffs assigned to hunt down parking scofflaws didn't pursue drivers who ignored tickets after being caught on camera blowing through red lights.

The Transportation Department employed collection agencies to track those drivers with limited success.

With 664,000 unpaid red-light summonses -- totaling $47 million -- in judgment, officials are making no apologies for the sudden crackdown.

"We've always said these violations would subject you to being towed," declared Finance Department spokesman Owen Stone.

Most drivers caught zooming through red lights tend to cough up the $50 fine fairly quickly since it's tough to dispute photographic evidence. In 2009, the city generated $32.3 million from 150 hidden traffic cameras.
But some cunning culprits discovered that ignoring red-light summonses didn't necessarily mean risking having their cars towed.

"If you didn't pay, it didn't stop you from registering your car," admitted one red-light scofflaw who works for the city and said everyone in his office was aware that enforcement of the red-light violations was limited.
The scofflaw said he forked over hundreds of dollars to immediately settle all his fines, fearing the new towing offensive.

Lucky for him, he settled up.

About five dozen vehicles were mistakenly yanked from the streets last week despite the grace period. Officials promised to rectify matters for all the affected owners.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_to_give_red_light_scofflaws_YWqie986OgpG6gstmNdREO#ixzz0vSAzaj27


City marshals will soon target cars owned by scofflaws ignoring red-light summonses - NYPOST.com

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