Council Passes Ordinance Increasing Towing Fees In South Brunswick

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – The Township on Monday passed an ordinance that increases fees and adjusts requirements for towing companies to operate in South Brunswick.

The ordinance is being updated after 10 years.

Under the new ordinance fees for flatbed and conventional wreckers will increase from $145 per hour to $175. Heavy-duty wrecker rates will increase from $475 per hour to $550.

Meanwhile storage fees for vehicles will increase from $45 to $60 per day for outdoors and $65 to $85 per day for indoor storage.

Motorcycles, mopeds, ATVs and snowmobiles will now pay $60 per day for storage instead of $45.

According to the township attorney, South Brunswick decided to take this step to ensure the fees are fair to “people who are towed and to the people who are doing the towing.”

To make amendments to the ordinance, officials looked at other townships to learn more, Bierman said.

Officials studied similar ordinances in Monroe, North Brunswick, West Windsor and Plainsboro.

Officials included verbiage in the amendment that will ensure the township can't exceed what the state already imposes in terms of fees for the turnpike and the parkway.

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