(a) No person, firm or corporation, being the owner, lessee or operator or in charge of a place of business, shall leave, or permit to be left, its shopping carts unattended within the boundaries of any parking lot. This section shall not be deemed to be violated if such person, firm or corporation, at intervals of not more than one half hour each, during the hours such place of business is open to the public for business, removes its unattended shopping carts from such parking lot. Shopping carts shall not be deemed to be unattended if such carts are placed within “shopping cart corrals” provided by the owner, lessee or operator of the business.
(b) No person, firm or corporation, being the owner, lessee or operator or in charge of a place of business, shall leave, or permit to be left, its shopping carts unattended in the City’s right-of-way, or within fifty feet of the City’s right-of-way, for any length of time.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 72-15. Passed 5-1-72; Ord. 2009-69. Passed 8-18-09.)