§ 3.49.010. Definitions.

Unless otherwise specified in this Chapter, the following terms, as used in this Chapter, mean as follows:

Accident means any occurrence which renders a vehicle wrecked or disabled as defined in this section.

Authorized public agency means an officer of the police department, the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office, the Kansas Highway Patrol, an employee for the Sedgwick County or City Fire Department or a dispatcher for the Special Police Information Data Entry and Retrieval Unit (SPIDER) of the police department.

Chief of Police means the Chief of Police for the City of Wichita and his or her designee.

Dispatched service call means an occasion when the dispatcher for the Special Police Information Data Entry and Retrieval Unit (SPIDER) of the Wichita Police Department calls licensed emergency wrecker at the request of the owner or person in charge of a wrecked or disabled vehicle or at the request of a law enforcement officer to remove a vehicle because it is wrecked or disabled.

Emergency wrecker company means a person who owns, controls, or has a financial interest in an emergency wrecker service.

Emergency wrecker service means the business of towing wrecked vehicles from the streets of the City upon request of an authorized public agency.

Heavy tow means the towing of any vehicle with a Gross Vehicle Weight greater than 5,000 pounds and that is on a roadway, level shoulder, or other level surface that can be accessed with a tow truck.

Impounded vehicle means any wrecked or disabled vehicle or any other vehicle which has been towed by order of an authorized public agency and which is not to be released except by authority of an authorized public agency.

Licensee means a person licensed to engage in emergency wrecker service.

Motor vehicle means every vehicle which is self-propelled, and which has a vehicle identification number.

Owner means any person who holds the legal title of a vehicle or who has the legal right of possession thereof, or the legal right of control of a vehicle.

Street means any street, alley, avenue, lane, public place, square or highway within the corporate limits of the City.

Specialized tow means any tow which requires the uprighting of a vehicle, winching over 30 feet or the removal of a submerged vehicle from a body of water.

Standard tow means the towing of any vehicle with a Gross Vehicle Weight less than 5,000 pounds and that is on a roadway, level shoulder, or other level surface that can be accessed with a tow truck.

Vehicle means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, which has a vehicle identification number, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

Vehicle Identification Number means an identifying number, serial number, engine number, transmission number or other distinguishing number or mark, placed on a vehicle, engine, transmission or other essential part by its manufacturer or by authority of the division of vehicles or Kansas Highway Patrol or in accordance with the laws of another state or county.

Wrecker contractor means the Emergency Wrecker service company or companies who have been awarded a contract by the City of Wichita, after a competitive selection process, for the impounding of motor vehicles by the Wichita Police Department.

Wrecked vehicle means any vehicle that has been damaged as the result of colliding with another vehicle or object so as to reasonably necessitate that such vehicle be removed by a wrecker.

Wrecker means any motor vehicle designed to be used primarily for removing wrecked or disabled vehicles upon any street.

Wrecker rotation list means a list of wrecker companies licensed on or before March 1 ^st of each year, maintained by the Chief of Police, as provided for in this Chapter. Such term shall include all wrecker companies properly licensed within ninety days of the passage of this ordinance.

(Ord. 45-668 § 1; Ord. No. 36-968 (part); Ord. No. 49-207, § 1, 2-28-2012)