Unauthorized wrecker at scene.
Indianapolis-Marion County Revised Code § 611-210
in effectSec. 611-210. - Unauthorized wrecker at scene.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any wrecker to proceed to the scene of an accident for solicitation purposes without having been summoned by a party involved in the accident or by the city's dispatch authority. Such unauthorized response is declared a traffic hazard and harmful to the health, welfare and safety of the people of the city and county, and, as such, those wreckers so responding are declared public nuisances and subject to impoundment upon order of the officer at the scene of the accident.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any wrecker to monitor for profit emergency frequency radios installed in tow trucks without having written authorization for an emergency radio installation by the Chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
(G.O. 27, 2012, § 1)
Source: Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Revised Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/in/indianapolis_-_marion_county/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIIPUHEWE_CH611MOVE_ARTIIIMREVE_S611-210UNWRSCFetched: 10/27/2026