Norman, OK Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

NCC 32-605 governs who may tow vehicles for the Norman Police Department under Article 32-VI, Impoundment of Vehicles. A "contractor" is defined narrowly: only a wrecker or towing service that has signed a wrecker service agreement with the Police Department qualifies, and the ordinance distinguishes a standard wrecker vehicle from a "combination wrecker," which carries two separate towing devices so it can move two vehicles at once. Every contractor must maintain both an office and an impoundment yard inside Norman's corporate limits, specifically within the stretch bounded by West 72nd Avenue and East 84th Avenue, so vehicles stay reachable to owners and police.

That impoundment yard can hold only abandoned or disabled vehicles awaiting reclaim; the ordinance bars operating it as a junkyard where vehicles are dismantled or stripped for parts. As a further condition of the police contract, a wrecker company must follow every guideline, policy, and standard operating procedure the Chief of Police adopts, on top of all state and federal towing and storage law. The surrounding sections in Article 32-VI set the rest of the impoundment process a contractor operates under: NCC 32-601 gives police authority to order a vehicle impounded, NCC 32-602 requires officers to try to identify the owner, NCC 32-603 requires written notice of the impoundment, and NCC 32-604 sets out how an owner redeems an impounded vehicle from the yard.