Taylorsville, UT Business Licensing & Operations: Towing Companies (2026)

Chapter 11.40, Wrecker Service, requires any wrecker service providing towing in the city, or wishing to be available for police department rotation calls, to be registered and permitted by the city or its designated agent under section 11.40.020. Section 11.40.010 defines a towing operation as the business of nonconsensual towing for compensation of motor vehicles in the city, including storing towed vehicles pending return to their owners, and defines wrecker service as any entity with tow trucks serving the public, a private business, or one registered with the city to be on call for police on a rotating basis.

Section 11.40.040 designates illegal towing activities: a wrecker owner or operator may not tow a vehicle from a public street or highway without the owner's or custodian's consent unless the operator first notifies the police department, and may not tow from private property, a private road or driveway without either the vehicle owner's request or the property owner's request where the property is posted with signs at all entrances (or other conspicuous locations) large enough and placed so the vehicle operator could have read them, warning that unauthorized parking results in removal at the owner's expense.

Operators must also notify the Taylorsville police department of all nonconsent, nonpolice generated tows immediately upon arrival at an impound or storage yard. Section 11.40.030 exempts towing done for association or club members paid only by the sponsoring organization, tows performed without charge, tows under a lease or rental agreement, out of city wreckers passing through for nonemergency repairs, and legal repossessions. Any violation of the chapter, per section 11.40.050, is a class B misdemeanor, tracing to Ordinance 06-30 (September 6, 2006) with the illegal towing designation added by Ordinance 12-08 (May 2, 2012).