Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 77

77 Police officer may authorise tow

(1) This section applies if a police officer—

(a) arranges for an impounded motor vehicle to be towed to a holding yard; or

(b) arranges for an immobilised motor vehicle to be towed to a place.

(2) A police officer may sign a towing authority for the impounded or immobilised motor vehicle.

(3) The driver of a tow truck towing the impounded or immobilised motor vehicle under a towing authority must tow the motor vehicle to—

(a) if the police officer directs the driver to tow the motor vehicle to a particular holding yard or place—the holding yard or the place; or

(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply—the holding yard to which the driver ordinarily tows motor vehicles.

(4) In this section—

"towing authority" , in relation to a motor vehicle, means a document that states that a particular person is authorised to tow the vehicle.