§ 178-11. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

AUTOMOBILE or VEHICLE

A private passenger vehicle type that is owned or hired and is neither used as a public or livery conveyance for passengers nor rented to others with a driver; and a motor vehicle with a pick-up body, or delivery sedan, a van, or a panel truck or a camper type vehicle used for recreational purposes owned by an individual who is a resident of the same household, not customarily used in the occupation, profession or business of the insured other than farming or ranching. An automobile owned by a farm family copartners or corporations, which is principally garaged on a farm or ranch and otherwise meets the definitions contained in this chapter, shall be considered a private passenger automobile owned by two or more relatives resident in the same household.

BASIC TOWING SERVICE

The removal and transportation of an automobile from a highway, street, or other public or private road, or a parking area, or from a storage facility, and other services normally incident thereto, but does not include recovery of an automobile from a position beyond the right-of-way or berm, or from being impaled upon any other object within the right-of-way or berm.

BOROUGH

The Borough of Rocky Hill.

CHIEF OF POLICE

The Chief of the Police Department providing traffic enforcement services to the Borough or designee.

MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT

An occurrence in which a private passenger automobile comes in contact with any other object for which the private passenger automobile must be towed or removed for placement in a storage facility. This includes all situations, even if they were caused by the intentional acts of a perpetrator.

PERSON

Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.

STORAGE CHARGES FOR TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR PERIOD

The maximum allowable amount to be charged by a storage facility for a twenty-four-hour period or fraction thereof. A new twenty-four-hour period begins at 12:01 a.m.

STORAGE SERVICES

A vehicle storage facility that is secured providing sufficient security measures to protect the automobile towed.

TOW VEHICLE

Only those vehicles equipped with a broom or brooms, winches, slings, tilt beds, wheel lifts, or under-reach equipment specifically designed by its manufacturer for the removal or transport of private passenger automobiles.

TOW VEHICLES BASE OR SERVICE

The towing operator's principal place of business where the tow vehicle is stationed when not in use.

TOWING LIST

A list maintained by the Police Department providing traffic enforcement services to the Borough containing the names of those wreckers licensed by the Borough of Rocky Hill to respond to requests for the towing of vehicles made by the Police Department providing traffic enforcement services to the Borough.

WRECKER

A specially adapted vehicle used to remove motor vehicles from one place to another.