The Department of Licensing issues registration certificates to tow truck operators which authorize the operators to engage in the impounding, transporting, and storage of unauthorized vehicles and the disposal of abandoned vehicles.  Registered tow truck operators are authorized to collect the costs of towing, storage, tolls or ferry fares paid, or other services rendered during the course of towing, removing, impounding, or storing an impounded vehicle.

Registered tow truck operators are authorized to collect a convenience fee, to be paid by the credit or debit card user, whenever a credit or debit card is chosen as the payment method for the costs of towing, storage, tolls, or ferry fares.  The fee must be sufficient to offset the charges imposed on the tow truck operator by the credit and debit card companies but may not exceed 4 percent.