168B.14 REGULATION OF VEHICLE TOWERS LIMITED.
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168B.14 REGULATION OF VEHICLE TOWERS LIMITED.
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Subdivision 1. Definitions.
For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given them:
(a)"Vehicle tower" means a person engaged in the business of towing or recovering vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, tow bar, tow line, or dolly for the purpose of moving or transporting wrecked, damaged, disabled, replacement, or abandoned vehicles; and
(b)"Municipality" means a statutory or home rule charter city or a town.
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Subd. 2. Request by owner.
No municipality may prohibit the operation within its boundaries of a vehicle tower who is not licensed by that municipality and who is responding to a service request from a person who is the owner or operator or the agent of the owner or operator of the motor vehicle for which vehicle towing service is requested.
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Subd. 3. Private property.
No vehicle tower may remove a motor vehicle by towing, carrying, hauling or pushing from private property except at the request of a person who is the owner or operator or the agent of the owner or operator of the vehicle, or the owner or agent of the owner of the private property.