Amendments to Chapter 86, Vehicle Towing and Booting

Rules Amendment # 3 (Continued):

(c) A person licensed as a towing operator must provide the department, if available, a valid email address and shall maintain the email address on file with the department during the term of the license.

CHANGE REQUIRED: If you have a valid email address for your Tow Company you must provide it to TDLR and keep it updated for proposed actions and decisions. Also, individual tow operators must provide their email address (if they have one) to TDLR for notification purposes. This is very important. If you don’t use email regularly, you will need to check it frequently and also check your spam filter for official TDLR emails. Southwest Tow Operators did not support making this mandatory. It is an effort by TDLR to reduce postage expenses as their budget has been cut each year for the last several years.

Rules Amendment # 4:

§86.702. Responsibilities of Licensee and Permit Holder--Change Name, Address, or Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy.

(a) A licensee or permit holder shall notify the department of changes to any of following information:

(1) change in the licensee’s or permit holder’s name no later than the effective date of the change;

(2) change of the licensee’s or permit holder’s mailing or physical address, and email address, no later than the effective date of the change;

CHANGE REQUIRED: This is related to rules amendment # 3. You must inform TDLR of a change in your email address no later than the effective date of the change.