BATON ROUGE - Paying hundreds of dollars to get a boot off your car for parking violations could soon be a thing of the past for drivers in Baton Rouge.

The Baton Rouge Metro Council introduced an ordinance Wednesday night that looks to not only put a cap on how much booting companies can charge, but also creates signage requirements in private parking lots.

"He essentially called me to say, 'Hey, we had a great time in Baton Rouge. We love the restaurant we went to. We will never come back again because of that experience'," Metro Councilman Rowdy Gaudet said.

Councilman Rowdy Gaudet says he was contacted by out-of-town visitors who visited a restaurant in the downtown area in two separate vehicles. Gaudet says the family realized they overstayed about 20 minutes in the parking spot, a

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