Pasco County, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

07(2)(b). It applies to towing or booting a vehicle or vessel from private property without the owner's or custodian's consent, including wrecks, disabled vehicles, and accident-scene removals. The board of county commissioners sets maximum permissible towing, storage, and immobilization rates by resolution, uniform across the unincorporated county, and a towing company operating under this section may not charge above those rates or add any fee the board has not authorized; companies working a rotation contract for a public agency such as a sheriff's office may be held to that agency's own, lower rate schedule instead.

Booting is tightly conditioned: the vehicle must be unlawfully parked with notice posted on the property, unoccupied by any person or animal, and immobilized with a steel boot on the driver's-side front wheel (or another wheel if that is not feasible); the booter must immediately affix an 8½-by-11-inch sticker warning against moving the vehicle and listing a business name, address and phone number, and must release the vehicle within 30 minutes of a release request once any booting charge is paid. ,' with the towing company's name and phone number, mounted three to six feet above ground on the passenger side within five feet of the entrance.