QuestionI am currently living in a trailer in Tolono, IL and my tags had lapsed so went out and bought covers for them. I come home and both of my covered cars were gone, they had been towed. I have been told by 20+ people that if you have a car in your driveway and it is covered that the tow companies aren't allowed to touch it. I want to know if this was legal for them to be able to do?
AnswerAh I would love to really provide an answer for you on this one, but I have to point out a few things here...
First of all "living in a trailer" I can take as a mobile home park. They tend to have rules and such about licensed vehicles in the complex and as such when the vehicle tags expire they become "unlicensed - abandoned vehicles" Now in many places the management does keep up on tags and such and when they find vehicles which are not "legal" they have them towed.. Its kind of a "quality of life - appearance" issue... Covered vehicles also tend to attract attention and as such they might of been checked by management...
That being said the next issue is that many Cities have ordinances which deal with "unlicensed vehicles" and I have heard, seen and even towed vehicles per orders of the police or even other city departments which were not licensed from front yards, back yards and even from covered car ports...
Its a tax thing to them at that point as unlicensed means no tax income from the tags... I personally do not agree with it but it happens.
Legal, well that would depend on the laws which apply if the city did it, or the rules and regulations of the trailer park if they is the case...
But in any case someone had to authorize the tow and that is where I would start looking for answers as to what really was wrong.
