(A) Abandoned shopping carts are unsightly, interfere with pedestrian and vehicular traffic, accumulate over time on public and private property causing blight and similar conditions resulting in reduction of property values and deterioration of the city’s neighborhoods, are detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare, and constitute a public nuisance.
(B) The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health, safety and welfare by establishing that it is a violation of this code to improperly remove any shopping cart from the premises of the owner of the cart. In addition, this chapter provides requirements for storeowners to take action to reduce the removal of shopping carts from the owner’s premises and to facilitate the retrieval of shopping carts removed from the owner’s premises.
(1995 Code, § 7.60.010) (Ord. 06-2011, passed - -2006)