Montgomery County, VA Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

Sec 6-37 of the county's traffic code makes it unlawful for any tow truck company, or any person operating a tow truck, to remove a motor vehicle from private property without first obtaining permission from the property owner, operator or lessee. The section adds a second, independent permission requirement: the owner or operator of the vehicle being towed must also notify the landowner and receive permission before the tow happens, so a tow arranged solely between a vehicle's owner and a towing company does not satisfy the ordinance unless the landowner has also signed off.

Any tow truck company, its operator, or the vehicle's owner or operator who violates the section is subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, set by Ord. No. 1995-22, adopted December 11, 1995. , Generally) alongside other conduct rules like blocking intersections and unlawful riding, and it applies countywide outside the incorporated limits of Blacksburg and Christiansburg, since Sec 6-3 exempts those towns from Chapter 6. The ordinance targets private-property, non-consent towing, distinct from the county's own removal authority over abandoned or unattended vehicles on public property found in Sec 6-55.