27-50-1222. Nonconsent towing rotation — Heavy-duty motor vehicles — Definitions. [Effective January 1, 2020.]

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27-50-1222. Nonconsent towing rotation — Heavy-duty motor vehicles — Definitions. [Effective January 1, 2020.]

27-50-1222. Nonconsent towing rotation — Heavy-duty motor vehicles — Definitions. [Effective January 1, 2020.] (a) A tow facility may participate in a law enforcement program for the rotation of towing and recovery services for unattended heavy-duty motor vehicles if: (1) The tow facility: (A) Is licensed by the Arkansas Towing and Recovery Board as a heavy-duty motor vehicle incident management tow facility; (B) Is current in safety inspections by the Arkansas Highway Police Division of the Arkansas Department of Transportation under the North American Standard Level I Inspection Procedure of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance; and (C) Complies with all other applicable state and federal laws; (2) The tow facility: (A) Owns or has access to the equipment necessary to properly execute the recovery of a heavy-duty motor vehicle and clean-up of a major accident; and (B) Has at least one (1) owner, partner, or employee who has proof of: (i) Training through a nationally recognized towing and recovery program in traffic incident management or on-scene recovery techniques; or (ii) Five (5) or more years of experience in the towing and recovery of heavy-duty motor vehicles; and (3) Each tow facility owner, partner, and employee has completed four (4) hours of Traffic Incident Management Training through a program required by the board. (b) However, a licensed tow facility or tow business that is not licensed as a heavy-duty motor vehicle incident management tow facility may be called upon by a law enforcement agency to assist in the towing and recovery of a heavy-duty motor vehicle: (1) If the response time to the unattended vehicle is of the essence; and (2) A heavy-duty motor vehicle incident management tow facility is not available in the lo

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-50-1222

Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.