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HEARING INSTRUCTIONS*

EQUEST FOR

Texas Occupations Code Chapter 2308

Subchapter J – Rights of Owners and Operators of Stored Vehicles

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Instructions:

The owner or operator of a vehicle towed and placed in a vehicle

storage facility without consent is entitled to a hearing on whether probable cause

existed for the removal of the vehicle. A person entitled to a hearing must deliver a

written request for the hearing to the

LIBERTY

County, Justice of the Peace,

Precinct ___, Place ___ located at ___________________________, Texas _______.

The request for hearing must be delivered before the 14

business day after the

date the vehicle was removed and placed in the vehicle storage facility (not

counting Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays). The hearing must be heard

within 21 days of filing (excluding weekends).The Request for Hearing must be

completed with the specified information. The precinct in which the vehicle storage

A filing fee of $41 must be paid by

facility is located must be designated.

cashier’s check or money order payable to Judge ______________ at the

time of filing.

“Parking facility” means public or private property used, wholly or partly, for restricted or

paid vehicle parking. The term includes: (a) a restricted space on a portion of an

otherwise unrestricted parking facility; and (b) a commercial parking lot, a parking

garage, and a parking area serving or adjacent to a business, church, school, home,

apartment complex, property governed by a property owners’ association or

government-owned property leased to a private person, including (i) a portion of the

right-of-way of a public roadway that is leased by a governmental entity to the parking

facility owner; and (ii) the area between the facility’s property line abutting a county or

municipal public roadway and the centerline of the roadway’s drainage way or the curb

of the roadway, whichever is farther from the facility’s property line.

“Parking facility owner” means (a) an owner or operator of a parking facility, including a

lessee employee or agent of an owner or operator; (b) a property owners’ association

having control under a dedicatory instrument, over assigned or unassigned parking

areas; or (c) a property owner having an exclusive right under a dedicatory instrument to

use a parking space.

For assistance in obtaining this information, you may call the Texas Department of

Transportation, Motor Carrier Contacts, Toll-Free Customer Service at 800-299-1700.

(*See Complete Form – Pages 2 and 3)

Request For Tow Hearing Form