§ 9.70.010. Findings and purpose.  


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  • The unauthorized, use, accumulation, and storage of abandoned shopping carts or 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 unattractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to be aesthetically detrimental to the community, and to be injurious to the health, safety, and general welfare. The purpose of this chapter is to prevent the unauthorized use, accumulation, and storage of abandoned shopping carts and laundry carts, or parts thereof, on public and private property, by restricting the removal of carts from parking facilities, requiring identification on carts, and abating abandoned carts in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 818, § 1, 7-28-2009)