BATON ROUGE - On Wednesday, the East Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council unanimously passed a new booting ordinance, putting a limit on how much a company can charge to remove a boot.

Aaron Harrell is the manager of American Coachworks, one of the largest booting companies in the Greater Baton Rouge area.

"We are definitely in favor of there being some regulation in our industry. We want to make sure we can keep the bad actors out of the way," Harrell said.

An earlier version placed the maximum boot removal cost at $75. The version voted on Wednesday raised it to $150.

Councilmember Rowdy Gaudet said the increase came after he spoke to those in the booting industry. Harrell said $75 was too low and would put many booting companies out of business. He said that it would, in turn, hurt veh

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