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Committee passes towing overhaul clarifying access to personal items, standardizing fees and giving UDOT enforcement tools
Summary
The committee adopted a substitute for HB 261 that clarifies when owners can retrieve life-essential items from impounded vehicles, standardizes credit-card processing fees, allows UDOT to remove tow companies from rotations for violations, and exempts vehicles held as evidence until law enforcement releases them.
Representative Malloy presented substitute 2 of House Bill 261 and an amendment that narrows access-to-property provisions for impounded vehicles when the vehicle is held as evidence.
The bill makes several changes to the state’s towing laws: it requires towers to provide access to life-essential personal items (for example, medication and identification) from impounded vehicles; guarantees that once a towing fee is paid an owner can retrieve personal property; standardizes a reasonable 3%…
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