The unauthorized use, accumulation and storage of stray shopping and laundry carts, or parts thereof, on public and private property is found to create a condition tending to reduce property values, to promote blight and deterioration, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of the public, to be aesthetically detrimental to the community and to be injurious to the public health, safety and general welfare. The purpose of this chapter is to ensure that measures are taken by store owners to prevent the removal of carts from store premises and parking lots, to prevent the unauthorized use, accumulation and storage of stray carts, or parts thereof, on public and private property by restricting the removal of carts from parking facilities, requiring identification on carts and abating stray carts in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. This chapter is intended to supplement existing state law regarding shopping carts, as set forth in Cal. Business and Professions Code §§ 22435 et seq.
(`78 Code, § 8.36.010.) (Ord. 3279 § 3 (part), 2018; Ord. 2313 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 2255 § 1 (part), 1995.)