[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Borough of
Haddonfield 9-13-1960 by Ord. No. 949;
amended in its entirety at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I). Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall leave or abandon any shopping cart upon the sidewalks,
streets or roadways of the Borough of Haddonfield.
No merchant, corporate or otherwise, shall provide shopping carts for
the use of customers without first affixing thereto a permanent tag of identification
setting forth the name and address of the merchant.
All such carts abandoned or otherwise left on public streets, public
property or on private property without the express consent of the owner or
tenant thereof or the Borough of Haddonfield may be seized and impounded by
the Department of Public Works to be sold in accordance with the provisions
of N.J.S.A. 40A:14-157 at public auction as unclaimed property after a period
of six months, unless the owner thereof shall claim them from the Department
of Public Works within said period and pay the sums as provided in this chapter
to cover municipal retrieval and storage costs. Such fees shall be paid to
the Clerk of the Borough of Haddonfield for the purposes of the Borough of
Haddonfield.
In order to cover municipal retrieval and storage costs, persons wishing
to retrieve an impounded shopping cart shall pay a fee to the Borough Clerk's
office of $10 per cart.
It shall be a violation for anyone within the Borough of Haddonfield
to:
A.Â
Possess or have custody of a shopping cart which is the
property of a commercial entity, intended solely for the use of the patrons
of that entity on the property of such entity, where such shopping cart is
in the custody and possession of an individual outside of the property of
the owning commercial entity; or
B.Â
To abandon a shopping cart on any public or private property
within the Borough.
Violations or failure to comply with any provision of this chapter shall be punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, § 1-14. The continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.
