[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Ingram 6-9-1975 by Ord. No. 1074. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any street, highway, sidewalk, cartway or alleyway in the
Borough of Ingram.
Movable wheeled vehicles propelled by pushing or pulling
and designed to move goods and merchandise from the interiors of stores
to the outside.
No merchant, either as owner or lessee, or anyone
furnishing shopping carts as hereinabove defined shall, by any act
of omission or commission, permit the removal from his premises of
any shopping cart which may be available to any customer or the general
public. Any person who shall remove from the premises of any merchant
either as owner or lessee any shopping cart, tagged or untagged, which
has been made available for use on the premises owned or leased by
any merchant and to take the same without written permission of the
owner or lessee of said shopping cart to any public place within the
limits of the Borough of Ingram shall be subject to prosecution therefor,
if said shopping cart is not returned to the premises from which taken
or if said shopping cart is abandoned at any public place as herein
defined.
All merchants who shall make shopping carts
available to their customers shall at all times have firmly affixed
to such carts a metal, plastic or similarly suitable identification
disc or plate which shall contain the name of the merchant and the
address of the building in this Borough where such cart is regularly
kept or stored. In the event that any such identification disc or
plate on any shopping cart shall be removed or missing or be illegibly
defaced, the owner thereof shall at once remove the cart from availability
for use by his customers until the cart has been properly identified
as required herein.
Any shopping cart which is found by any police
officer of the Borough of Ingram or any other Borough employee upon
any public place as herein defined shall be deemed to be abandoned
by the owner or lessee thereof. Said shopping cart shall be removed
and stored by the Borough and, if properly tagged as herein provided,
the owner shall be notified in writing and may recover the same upon
the payment of a sum as set from time to time by resolution of the
Borough Council[1] as a removal and storage charge.
Any merchant or lessee who shall fail to properly tag or identify shopping carts as set forth in § 150-3 hereof, and any merchant or lessee of any shopping cart who shall permit the removal of any cart as provided in § 150-2 hereof, and any person who shall remove any shopping cart from the premises of any merchant in violation of § 150-2 hereof, shall be subject to prosecution before any District Justice of the Borough and, upon conviction of any violation of any section of this chapter, shall pay a fine of not more than $600, plus the cost of prosecution, and in default of payment of such fine and costs shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than 30 days. Each shopping cart which shall have been found to have been abandoned shall constitute a separate violation of the provisions of this chapter.
