Minnesota Statutes § 168B.14 - REGULATION OF VEHICLE TOWERS LIMITED

§ 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. § 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. § 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.