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Description: visit Georgiaslawyer.com Are unauthorized individuals in Atlanta allowed to remove boots from cars? What potential consequences could they face? For more such insights, visit Georgiaslawyer.com. Disclaimer: For entertainment, education and general information purposes only. Nothing in this video should be construed as legal advice. Always consult a attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. Attorney licensed to practice in Georgia, videos may contain state specific information which may only apply to this jurisdiction. Transcript: The girls that unlock the boot keys all around Atlanta, are they breaking the law? Yes. Committing multiple crimes. For the vote, for one, within the city of Atlanta, it is actually against the law for an unauthorized individual to remove a boot, right? So if I put a boot on your car, you're on my property, I got to sign up. I play by the rules. I put the boot on your car. You come back, yes, there has to be a sign up. So for example, here in Atlanta, you'll see them everywhere. They used to be these big giant white five by five foot signs. Now they are orange signs, and they've got very clear information on it where they say this is private property. These are the rules, blah, blah, blah. And then it has the information of the company that will tow your car or will boot your car. It's all right there. If they don't have one of those signs at all of the interests of the property, they can't boot you. Right? But that being said, the signs are almost always there. But there are some specific statutes that, like, if I'm a booting company and I put a boot on your car and you take that boot off your car by yourself, that's a crime, right? OK. It's my boot. You can't touch my boot. Is that civil penalty? It is. Well, so there's a criminal penalty for removing the boot. For that, there's also the civil penalty for not paying me the fine. I see. So the worst thing that could happen to them is what? They could be personally responsible for every single ticket that was not paid because they removed the boot, as well as any damages to that business for the lost revenue, their lost reputation, the damage or destruction of the boot if the boot isn't being returned to them. OK. For example, if those boots cost $100 and they take off 10 boots, and then those 10 boots never make it back to the booting company, well, now they've competed a felony because they've destroyed more than $1,000 for the property of the business. Oh, OK. They're also going to be responsible for the, every one of those boots is, like, $75 to $100 to be removed. So if you remove 10 boots, you still want $1,000 from this business. That's also a separate felony. Oh, wow. So you're looking at serious jail time. I mean, they probably wouldn't go to jail for it, but they could. That's the possibility. They could go to jail for it. And the very least, they'd probably be liable for the amount of money that the business is losing. OK. Well, that's very interesting. Thank you so much. Absolutely. They should have been by.