Illinois Administrative Code › Title 92 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 1470 - NON-RELOCATION TOWING › Subpart A - APPLICATION OF PART AND DEFINITIONS › Section 1470.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Non-relocation towing" means the for-hire transportation of
				  vehicles by use of wrecker or towing equipment, other than the removal of
				  trespassing vehicles from private property subject to the provisions of the
				  Illinois Commercial Relocation of Trespassing Vehicles Law and the for-hire
				  towing of wheeled property other than vehicles (Section 18c-1104(21) of the
				  Law, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 951/2, par. 18c-1104(21)).
"Owner's agent" means the spouse, child, brother, sister, or
				  parent of the owner; the owner's attorney; the duly appointed personal
				  representative of a deceased or disabled owner. "Owner's agent" does not
				  include any insurance company or agent or any person who engaged in a primary
				  business of non-relocation towing.
"Person engaged in non-relocation towing between July 1, 1985
				  and January 1, 1986" means any natural person, partnership, or corporation
				  which, in its own name or as the employee or agent of another person, engaged
				  in non-relocation towing, as defined in this Section, at any time between the
				  foregoing dates, regardless of whether such towing was or is subject to the
				  jurisdiction of the Commission.
"Primary towing" means towing of wrecked or accidentally
				  disabled vehicles from the point of wreck or disablement to the initial place
				  of repair or impoundment.
"Roll-back car carrier or trailer" means a vehicle equipped
				  with a tilting bed which either uses a winch to draw wheeled property onto the
				  bed on its own wheels or is designed so that wheeled property can be driven or
				  propelled on its own wheels onto the bed, and any trailer which is specially
				  designed to transport wheeled than two vehicles (See Section 18c-1104(39) of
				  the Law, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 951/2, par. 18c-1104(39)).
"Secondary towing" means towing of wrecked or accidentally
				  disabled vehicles beyond the initial point of repair or impoundment.
"Towing" means pulling or pushing by use of a tow truck or
				  auxiliary axle.
"Tow truck" means a truck designed or altered, equipped, and
				  used to push, tow, or draw vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, towbar,
				  towline, or tow dolly, or to render assistance to disabled vehicles.
"Vehicles" means every device in, upon, or by which any
				  person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway.
"Wheeled property other than vehicles" means an item, other
				  than a freight trailer, with permanently affixed wheels but with no built-in
				  means of propulsion, designed to be towed by a vehicle (e.g. cement mixer or
				  mobile home).
"Wrecker or towing equipment" means tow trucks or auxiliary
				  axles, when used in relation to towing accidentally wrecked or disabled
				  vehicles; and roll-back carriers or trailers, when used in relation to
				  transporting accidentally wrecked or disabled vehicles. Wrecker or towing
				  equipment does not include car carriers or trailers other than roll-back car
				  carriers or trailers (Section 18c-1104(39) of the Law).