Cade v. Montgomery County

WENNER, Judge.

Upon this appeal and cross-appeal from the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, we are asked to consider the validity of a comprehensive local ordinance regulating the towing of motor vehicles from private property without the consent of the vehicles’ owners. We shall reverse the judgment of the circuit court which declared the ordinance unconstitutional in its entirety. In so doing we shall address, although not necessarily in the order presented, the following arguments:

I. A local ordinance which requires a towing service to accept as payment for towing and storage fees…