§ 39-24. Owner responsibilities.

(a)

At any time the business establishment is closed to the public or other customers, the owner shall remove all shopping carts from remote premise storage areas, and place them in a centralized storage area adjacent to the store building. All carts in such storage areas shall be secured from unauthorized removal.

(b)

Upon notification that a shopping cart has been found at a location other than the premises, the owner shall arrange to have the shopping cart returned to the premises within four (4) hours.

(c)

If a shopping cart has been impounded by the city, the owner shall redeem the shopping cart, on a quarterly basis, from the designated city storage facility at such preapproved times and dates as designated by the director. The set fee for retrieval of shopping carts stored by the city shall be forty dollars ($40.00) per cart. At the discretion of the city, an owner may make arrangements to pick up a shopping cart from the designated city storage facility at a time other than the preapproved scheduled retrieval. The set fee for such nonscheduled cart redemption service shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per cart.

(d)

It shall be unlawful for the owner to fail to perform any responsibility as designated by this section.

(Ord. No. 2009-9097, § 2, 7-23-09)