§ 9.62.020. Findings and purpose.

A.

The city council finds that abandoned shopping carts are increasingly pervasive in the community, litter the parkways and curbs of the city, create potential safety hazards to the public, and interfere with pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The accumulation of wrecked and dismantled abandoned shopping carts on public and private property tends to diminish property values and promote blight in the overall community.

B.

The purpose of this ordinance is to ensure that business owners take measures to prevent the removal of shopping carts from the business site, to make unauthorized removal of such shopping carts a violation of the municipal code, and to facilitate retrieval of abandoned shopping carts in a manner consistent with state law.

(Ord. 6891 § 2 (part), 2002)