Muncie, IN Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

Chapter 76, Abandoned Vehicles, was rewritten in full by Ordinance No. 57-21 on June 6, 2022, replacing an earlier version that traced back to a 2011 ordinance. The chapter is short, and its operative rate-setting provision is § 76.01, Fees and proceeds of sale, which directly caps what a towing operator can charge the City of Muncie or a vehicle owner for towing and storing a vehicle abandoned within city limits: towing may not exceed $35.00, and storage may not exceed $4.26 per day. That flat dollar cap applies regardless of vehicle size, distance towed, or time of day, and it functions as the city's price regulation on tow operators working abandoned-vehicle removal for the city rather than a broader towing-company licensing scheme.

Muncie does not run a separate towing-company license or permit chapter in its code; instead, the abandoned-vehicle towing and storage rates in § 76.01 are the mechanism by which the city controls what an operator can bill for city-directed abandoned-vehicle tows, with the proceeds-of-sale provisions in the same section governing what happens to an abandoned vehicle that is never reclaimed. A related cross-reference in the parking chapter, § 77.01, separately requires an owner to pay all moving and storage charges before an illegally parked vehicle already towed is released, tying the two chapters' towing and storage rules together for practical enforcement.