Guides
Booted? The city module
Booting is a city game — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and a handful of others write the rules. Fees, release clocks, and who takes the complaint.
A boot is not a tow, and in most of America it is not the state's game — it is the city's. New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia write the booting rules that matter, and Georgia writes a statewide tariff for heavy vehicles ($125/day, all-inclusive, on the Heavy pages). Mississippi bans booting commercial trucks outright except at law-enforcement direction, and North Carolina has made booting a commercial truck a crime.
The booting checks are the same everywhere: signage posted and legible before you parked; written authorization from the property owner; a release number and a release clock; the posted fee and no other fee. A boot with an invented supplement is the same claim as a tow without authorization.
Photograph the boot, the signage, and the release receipt before you drive away. Booting disputes are decided by those three photos.
Start with the verdict: run the checker.