Edmonds, WA Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

48 governs the specific contractors the city uses for police-ordered, nonconsensual impounds. 610, the mayor or a designee prepares bid specifications for towing and storage, subject to review by the finance director and approval by city council resolution. As an alternative to individual bidding, the city can instead set up a rotational list of towing contractors, either built from its own specifications or borrowed from another jurisdiction's existing bid through an interlocal agreement. 611. That proof can come as insurance, a surety bond, or a cash deposit, in an amount the administrative services director sets.

614 limits all of this: the requirements and performance standards in the chapter apply only to contractors operating under a city agreement for nonconsensual tows, not consensual ones. The city cannot use this chapter to regulate the service or routes of a towing company doing a consensual tow, since federal and state law bar that kind of local regulation. 607.