Prescott Valley, AZ Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

Section 4-01-050 lists the duties of the Prescott Valley Police Department under the direction of the Police Chief, and subsection E is the towing duty. The Department establishes, through its departmental rules and regulations, a rotation list of private towing carriers that are willing and able to respond to officer-ordered, non-consensual tows. Those rules must include requirements that ensure a safe, timely, efficient and consistent response by the carriers on the list.

The Town Code prints no towing rate in dollars. The same subsection says the rules and regulations are allowed to include a reasonable charge for towing services, set in accordance with current market conditions and applicable federal and state law. A driver whose car is towed at an officer's direction therefore has to look to the Police Department's current rules for the charge, not to the Town Code text.

Section 4-01-040 explains where those rules come from. The Police Department is operated and managed under departmental rules and regulations adopted from time to time by the Chief of Police and the Town Manager, with only a short list of policies, such as Use of Force and Vehicle Pursuits, reserved for adoption by the Town Council. The rotation list requirements are not on that Council-adopted list, so they live in the departmental rulebook. The Town Code contains no separate tow-truck license, permit or fee schedule of its own.

Towing is also kept out of residential neighborhoods as a home business. Section 13-04-040(C) lists prohibited home occupations, and item 17 is Tow truck service. Conditional home occupations in subsection B cover only in-home child care with no more than five children, community residences, massage therapy, commercial food preparation, pet grooming and automobile detailing or washing, so a tow operator cannot qualify under that list either. All home occupations must also comply with business registration requirements under Article 8-02.