How much does it cost to get a car out of impound in Manchester?

Impound costs inside the City of Richmond follow the city's own local towing fee ordinance, most recently revised by City Council in a 2025 ordinance reported to raise the hookup fee ceiling toward $195, still under Virginia's statewide maximum of $210 set by Va. Code § 46.2-1233.1. Virginia law requires the first 24 hours of storage to be free everywhere in the state, and Richmond has run police-directed tows through a single exclusive contractor, Seibert's Towing, since 1992. Reported figures from City Council's Fall 2025 action have not been independently confirmed against the final adopted Code of Ordinances text, so treat exact dollar amounts as directional until verified against Richmond's own Chapter 27.

Every tow in Richmond answers to the same contractor: Seibert's Towing has held the city's exclusive contract since 1992. In Manchester, that contract covers a district whose river-crossing geography has shaped towing demand since long before Richmond absorbed it as its own independent city in 1910. Four US routes, US-1, US-60, US-301, and US-360, converge here alongside I-95, and the Lee, Mayo, and Manchester bridges all carry that traffic across the James into downtown, so through-traffic breakdowns concentrate hard at the bridge approaches. The 1901 Hull Street Station, the 1871 Manchester Courthouse, and the old Southern States Cooperative silos sit inside a district that keeps converting older industrial buildings into apartments with underbuilt parking, layering private-lot enforcement on top of the bridge-traffic tows. The city-owned Richmond Marine Terminal, an inland barge port on the James about four miles south of downtown, adds its own commercial-fleet traffic to the district. Check apps.richmondgov.com/applications/towviewing or call the non-emergency line, (804) 646-5100. The city's 2025 ordinance reportedly set the local hookup cap near $195, under Virginia's statewide $210 ceiling; confirm the current figure with Seibert's or the city before you pay. Manchester sits low along the James River bank, with real flood exposure in the older industrial blocks closest to the water, and Spanish skew here runs moderate, reflecting its position at the northern edge of the Southside Latino corridor.