It shall be unlawful for any person to provide carts for patrons'
use on store or business premises, unless the cart has permanently
affixed to it a sign, metallic tag or other means for clearly identifying
the owner of the cart and the specific store location at which said
cart is used.
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this chapter, for any
owner to suffer or permit any person to take any cart from the owner's
premises or parking area and thereafter abandon, discard, leave, place
or suffer or permit any cart to be left or placed in a public place.
The Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, Sanitation Division,
and public works employees, are hereby authorized to seize and remove
or cause to be removed any abandoned shopping cart from any public
place within the town, without notice, and shall take or cause the
same to be taken to a facility within the town for redemption or disposition
as hereinafter provided.
Any person or persons, association or corporation committing an offense against §§
82-2 or
82-3 of this chapter is guilty of a violation punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 days for each such offense, or by both such fine and imprisonment.