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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 22-9 Schedule of charges.">
  <section prefix="§" num="22-9" heading="Schedule of charges.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Schedule to be filed.">
      <para num="(1)">When applying for a license, the applicant shall file with the Police Commissioner a schedule that clearly sets forth that person’s proposed charges for towing and for services incident to towing.</para>
      <para num="(2)">These charges may be measured by mileage, time, and type of service.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Maximum charges.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Towing.">No matter how calculated, the towing charges may not exceed the amount of $150 per tow unless:<para num="(i)">the vehicle is a commercial vehicle under &lt;cite data-path="|31|§1-1|(f)"&gt;§ 1-1(f) {“Definitions – A to L: Commercial Vehicle”} of this article&lt;/cite&gt;; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the tow of the vehicle:<para num="(A)">requires removal from an embankment, ditch, waterway, trench, hole, or heavily wooded area; or</para>
          <para num="(B)">otherwise requires specialized and exceptional services for the vehicle’s removal.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Storage.">The schedule must set a maximum storage fee of no more than $50 per day.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="No change without amended schedule.">A licensee may not change the charges without filing with the Police Commissioner an amended schedule that shows the proposed changes.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Rejection of schedule.">
      <para num="(1)">The Police Commissioner may reject any proposed charges if, in the Commissioner’s opinion, the charges are excessive for the service to be performed.</para>
      <para num="(2)">In that case, the Commissioner shall return the proposed schedule or amended schedule to the applicant or licensee, as the case may be, with suitable notice of the reasons for rejecting it.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1966, art. 31, §113</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 19, §204</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 57-998</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 75-921</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 08-077</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-266</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-307</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
