Midwest City, OK Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)
Key Facts
- Current rule
- City contracts with wrecker services
- Repealed 1993
- §§ 44-2–44-16 permit sections
- Local tow-company permit?
- None
- State cross-reference
- 47 O.S. § 951 et seq.
Summary
Midwest City doesn't license or permit private tow operators. Chapter 44 only authorizes the city to contract with wrecker services, after its 1993 repeal of the old towing-permit sections was never replaced.
The City of Midwest City may contract with one (1) or more wrecker services which will provide some or all required towing needs for the City.
(Ord. No. 2394, § 2, 3-13-90; Ord. No. 2525, § 2, 4-27-93)
Secs. 44-2—44-16. - Reserved. Editor's note— Ord. No. 2525, § 1, adopted April 27, 1993; repealed §§ 44-2—44-16. Former §§ 44-2—44-16 pertained to wrecker permits and derived from Ord. No. 2394, § 2, adopted March 13, 1990, and Ord. No. 2413, § 1, adopted July 10, 1990.
APPENDIX A - ZONING REGULATIONS Footnotes: --- (1) --- Editor's note— Printed herein is Appendix A, the Zoning Regulations of the City of Midwest City, Oklahoma, Ordinance No. 3131, be it ordained and adopted by the Midwest City Council on Oct. 26, 2010. Ordinance No. 3131, §§ 1, 2, repealed and replaced former Appendix A, §§ 1.1—8.3 and including appendix C of Appendix A and all subsequent amendatory ordinances as set out herein. For full derivative history see the Code Comparative Table. Amendments to this ordinance are indicated by parenthetical history notes following amended provisions. The absence of a history note indicates that the provision remains unchanged from this ordinance. Only obvious misspellings and punctuation errors have been corrected without notation. Additions made for clarity are indicated by brackets.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 21).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 44-1 says the City of Midwest City may contract with one or more wrecker services which will provide some or all required towing needs for the city. That's the entire operative text of Chapter 44 today: the former permit scheme in §§ 44-2 through 44-16, which covered wrecker operator applications, insurance and rates, was repealed by Ord. No. 2525 in 1993 and those sections now read 'Reserved.' No towing-company permit, registration, or non-consent tow rate cap exists in the current code, the city's leverage runs through its wrecker service contract, alongside the separate state towing statute at 47 O.S. § 951 et seq.
Violations & Fines
Nothing to violate on the towing-company side. Chapter 44 carries no permit, insurance, or rate requirement in force, so there's no city citation for a wrecker operating without one.
Frequently Asked Questions
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