What a private-property parking contract usually covers

This is a placeholder draft for layout. It does not describe a real contract, a real lot, or a real towing company. Every sample business in the directory is fictional.

Private-property parking is not the same regime as a city street. On the street, the municipality writes the rule and its own officers or a named contractor enforce it. On a private lot, the owner sets conditions that have to be signed and posted in the way the province and the city require. A contractor — enforcement, towing, or both — is hired to apply those conditions.

A workable contract usually names five things. The lots covered, by address. The hours. Who may authorize a tow, and who may not. Where the vehicle will be stored, and the phone number a driver can call. How signs will be kept in place, because a missing sign is how a tow becomes a complaint.

The money terms matter as much as the operational ones. Who is paid a patrol fee, who is paid only when a vehicle is removed, and whether the driver pays the tower or the property. Those choices change behaviour. A contract that pays only on a hook gives a different result than a contract that pays for patrol time.

None of that is a substitute for the provincial towing rules or the city's sign bylaw. The City Rules pages link to the official text. Before this draft is anything but a placeholder, a lawyer in the relevant province should read it. Until then, treat it as furniture for the page.