The accumulation of wrecked, dismantled and abandoned shopping carts on public or private property also tends to create conditions that reduce property values, promoting blight and deterioration in the city. The intent of this chapter is to ensure that measures are taken by store owners to prevent the unauthorized removal of shopping carts from store premises and parking lots, to make the removal of carts a violation of this code and to facilitate the retrieval and disposition of abandoned carts found off the premises of retail establishments as permitted by state law. Further, this chapter is intended to supplement existing state law regarding shopping carts as set forth in California Business and Professions Code Section 22435, et seq.
(Ord. 2593 §1 (part))