Showing posts with label federal regulations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federal regulations. Show all posts

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Council bill would prohibit towing without tickets

Article Summary

  • The Philadelphia  city council has voted that a car cannot be towed from a private lot without a ticket 
  • The council is enacting this to stop what they call "rogue towers"
  • Some towing groups believe this will create a paperwork nightmare for police
Key quote from article

"This will be 56,000 times every quarter that a policeman may have to be called to issue a ticket, and I'll be interested to see on a map . . . where policemen were issuing tickets when major crimes were occurring elsewhere in the district," Green said.