The City Council finds and declares that:
(A) Abandoned shopping carts are increasingly pervasive in the community, litter the parkways and curbs of the city, create potential safety hazards to the public, and interfere with pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The accumulation of wrecked and dismantled abandoned shopping carts on public and private property tends to diminish property values and promote blight in the overall community.
(B) The purpose of this chapter is to prevent individuals from improperly using, altering, removing or abandoning shopping carts on public property, and to ensure that business owners take measures to prevent the removal of shopping carts from their business site, in a manner consistent with state law.
(Ord. 4501, passed 9-10-07)