Casper, WY Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

Casper Municipal Code § 10.60.030 governs non-consent towing carried out on the city's behalf. The chief of police is authorized to arrange removal of vehicles under Chapter 10.60 through private wrecker services and to designate places of storage for those vehicles. Whenever a vehicle is towed under this authority, whether because it obstructed traffic, was left disabled, or was taken as abandoned, it cannot be released from storage until the registered owner pays the towing charge and the storage charge that accrued. The actual dollar amounts for towing, storage, or removal are not fixed in the code itself; the city council sets and revises those charges by resolution from time to time, so the current fee schedule lives in council resolutions rather than the ordinance text.

The section includes one owner protection: if the chief of police judges that a vehicle was removed through no fault of the registered owner, and charging that owner would be unjust, the towing, storage, and removal costs are instead paid out of the city's general fund rather than billed to the owner, when a private wrecker service performed the work. This section works together with the rest of Chapter 10.60: police officers decide when a vehicle qualifies for removal under §§ 10.60.010 and 10.60.020, and § 10.60.030 is what lets the department contract that physical towing and storage out to a private wrecker rather than operating its own tow yard, while keeping the city council in control of what the wrecker and storage lot may charge.