Bill Text: MI SB0173 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Vehicles: wreckers; incentives for or from local governments for wrecker, recovery, or towing services; prohibit. Amends sec. 676d of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.676d).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-07-22 - Assigned Pa 0141'20 With Immediate Effect [SB0173 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0173-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 173
March 7, 2019, Introduced by Senator STAMAS and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled
"Michigan vehicle code,"
by amending section 676d (MCL 257.676d), as added by 2014 PA 303.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 676d. (1) A local unit of government shall not require as
a term of a contract with a wrecker, recovery, or towing service
that the wrecker, recovery, or towing service pay a fee to that
local unit of government for responding to the scene of an impound,
accident, disabled vehicle, or abandoned vehicle and providing
wrecker, recovery, or towing services. A local unit of government
shall not accept a payment, commission, or portion of wrecker,
recovery, or towing service fees from a wrecker, recovery, or
towing service in exchange for securing business for that wrecker,
recovery, or towing service.
(2) A wrecker, recovery, or towing service shall not offer to
a local unit of government a payment, fee, or commission to induce
the local unit of government to enter into a contract with or
secure business for the wrecker, recovery, or towing service.
(3) This section only applies to a contract between a local
unit of government and a wrecker, recovery, or towing service that
is
entered into or renewed after the effective date of the
amendatory
act that added this section.January
7, 2015.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.