(A) In enacting this chapter, the city hereby finds that abandoned shopping carts are unsightly, accumulate over time on public and private property causing blight and similar conditions resulting in reduction of property values, interfere with pedestrian and vehicular traffic and constitute a public nuisance detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare.
(B) The purpose of this chapter is to facilitate the removal of wrecked, dismantled and abandoned shopping carts and parts thereof from public and private property, to return carts to their rightful owners, and to ensure that measures are taken by cart owners to prevent the removal of shopping carts from store premises; collectively alleviating the safety hazards, unsafe conditions and the impairment of property values resulting from the abandonment of such carts. This chapter implements the provisions of Cal. Business and Professions Code §§ 22435 et seq.
(Ord. 2114-C-S, passed 2-23-16)