A. No operator, employee, or contractor of a wrecker or towing service or of a person or business that derives any business or income from a wrecker or towing service shall offer, and no officer or employee of the Corporation Commission, Department of Public Safety or any political subdivision of the state shall accept, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gift, loan, favor or service given for the purpose of influencing the officer or employee in the discharge of official duties of the person.
B. Except as provided in subsection C of this section, no officer of the Commission, Department or any law enforcement officer of any political subdivision of the state shall have any interest, financial or otherwise, in a wrecker or towing service, or with a person or in a business that derives business or income from a wrecker or towing service, nor shall a wrecker or towing service or a person or business that derives any business or income from a wrecker or towing service employ such officer.
C. An officer of the Commission, Department or a law enforcement officer of any political subdivision may have an interest, financial or otherwise, in or may be employed by a wrecker or towing service when the sole purpose and only business of the wrecker or towing service is to perform repossessions of vehicles which are subject to lien and are being repossessed by the lien holder of record.
Added by Laws 1970, c. 323, § 6. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 170, § 5, operative Oct. 1, 1982; Laws 1983, c. 109, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1983; Laws 1995, c. 50, § 7, emerg. eff. April 10, 1995; Laws 2002, c. 474, § 3, emerg. eff. June 6, 2002; Laws 2005, c. 179, § 1, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws 2011, c. 355, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
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