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because it employs “spotters” who “look for anyone they determine to be stepping out of line in parking lots where the businesses have contracts with Advanced.” Arlington Delegate Alfonso Lopez has introduced bills that would have addressed the fact that only the state attorney general’s office can enforce towing laws in Virginia. Lopez’s most recent bill would have made towing subject to the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, but it failed.
The idea behind it could still come up in a work group with the attorney general’s office requested by State Senator Dave Marsden of Fairfax, Paviour reports, noting that Marsden receieved about $10,000 in donations from towing companies and introduced legislation earlier this year that would prevent localities from capping the rates that towing companies can charge. He later pulled the legislation and decided to go the work-group route instead.