As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PARKING AREA
A parking lot or other property provided by a retailer for
the use of a customer for parking an automobile or other vehicle.
The parking area of a retail mercantile establishment located in a
multistore complex or shopping center shall include the entire parking
area used by the complex or center.
SHOPPING CART
A push cart of the type or types which are commonly provided
by grocery stores, drugstores or other retail mercantile establishments
for the use of the public in transporting commodities in stores and
markets and their parking areas.
All shoppers, patrons and users of carts who remove a cart for
their convenience or any other reason from the store, shopping centers,
grocery stores, premises or parking lot adjacent to where the cart
belongs shall have the affirmative duty and obligation to return the
cart forthwith. Any person who does not fulfill that duty and obligation,
or who abandons the cart, has violated this chapter.
All owners and operators of stores or other facilities owning
and/or supplying carts for the convenience of shoppers, patrons or
users shall:
A. Clearly label, in a visible manner restrictive of removal of same,
the name, address and phone number of the store or facility owning
or responsible for supplying the carts.
B. Be responsible for retrieval of any of its carts as soon as possible
and not more than three business days from notification by the Township
or any official thereof of a request to do so by fax, letter, e-mail
or verbal notification. Any that do not do so have violated this chapter.
C. Create internal procedures to comply with this chapter, which procedures
shall be written and in place within 30 days after the effective date
of this chapter, and which shall be supplied to the Township when
requested by the Township from time to time.
D. Said procedures shall identify the name of the person, title, address
of the store or facility, phone number, fax number and e-mail address
where and to whom the Township may send notices.
E. At its option and expense, create signage on its premises notifying
shoppers, patrons and users of the existence of this chapter and the
penalties for violations thereof by them in a form substantially the
same as that which follows:
NOTICE
Shoppers, patrons and users of shopping carts who remove carts
from these premises and do not return them forthwith, or abandon them,
shall be subject to a fine not less than $25 for the first conviction
and $100 for each subsequent conviction.