Florissant, MO Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

Chapter 395, Abandoned Property, is Florissant's towing and impound framework and it largely tracks the state's abandoned-vehicle statutes, Sections 304.155 to 304.158, RSMo., while adding city-specific administration. Section 395.010 defines TOWING COMPANY as any person or entity which tows, removes or stores abandoned property, and separately defines ABANDONED PROPERTY, INOPERABLE VEHICLE and ANTIQUE VEHICLE. Section 395.040 lets a law enforcement officer authorize a non-consent tow once a vehicle has sat unattended on an interstate or freeway for ten hours in an urbanized area (forty-eight outside one), or on a State highway for the same tiered periods, or sooner if the vehicle is a serious hazard, is obstructing traffic, has been reported stolen, or is tied to an arrest, outstanding traffic or parking violations, or posted no-parking signage. Section 395.050 covers private property: a Law Enforcement Officer may authorize a tow at the request of the person in possession of the land once the vehicle has sat for more than forty-eight hours or poses a safety hazard.

Section 395.060 requires the City Police Department to run an NCIC and statewide stolen-vehicle check on every tow it authorizes, notify the owner and any lienholder by certified mail, and, under Subsection I, requires every for-hire towing company to print its name, city and state in letters at least three inches high on the truck or wrecker itself. Section 395.070 caps what a towing company can charge: storage fees for a non-consent tow can't exceed the towing company's own negotiated consent-tow rates, and the Florissant City Council may set binding maximum towing and storage charges consistent with State law. Property left unredeemed after thirty days' notice can be sold as scrap or, if the City itself holds it, sold under Section 395.080 with a City Clerk-signed bill of sale.