[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the Borough of Lawnside 7-5-1972 by Ord. No. 160-1972. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Certain words in this chapter, as hereinafter used, are defined
as follows:
A hand-drawn or -propelled vehicle or wheeled container made
of metal, wood or other material such as is generally provided by
merchants for carting or carrying merchandise or foodstuffs to automobiles
or other places.
Includes individuals, corporations, partnerships or associations.
Includes streets, avenues, roads, alleys, highways, boulevards,
concourses, driveways, culverts, parking lots, parking areas and places
used by the general public.
The owner or owners of shopping carts used in connection with
any retail business and intended for use by patrons in carrying articles
of merchandise shall clearly designate on each cart the name and the
address of each owner or owners.
It shall be unlawful for any owner or owners to permit any carts
to be left unattended or abandoned on any public streets or public
place within the Borough of Lawnside, County of Camden.
[Added 11-3-1976 by Ord.
No. 9-1976]
The Chief of Police is authorized to remove and impound or cause
to be removed and impounded any cart found abandoned or discarded
or left in any of the prohibited areas described herein and to deliver
it to any borough-owned or -leased storage facilities available for
such purpose. Within five days after the removal of the cart to the
storage facilities, the Chief of Police shall, by ordinary mail, notify
the owner thereof at the address indicated on the identification tag
or plate that the impounded cart may be redeemed for the sum of $1
within seven days from the date of said notice for redemption. Where
any such property remains unclaimed or unredeemed for a period of
five days beyond the date fixed for redemption, or where a cart impounded
has no identification tag or plate and is not claimed or redeemed
within said five-day period after impounding, the Chief of Police
shall give at least five days' public notice in a newspaper circulating
in the Borough of Lawnside, fixing a place, date, time and the terms
for a public sale to the highest bidder of such property. The Chief
of Police shall conduct such sale within a reasonable period of time
after impoundment. Where any such property shall remain unsold at
public sale, the Chief of Police may dismantle, destroy or otherwise
sell or dispose of such property. Any public sale or other disposition
of property pursuant to this chapter shall be without liability to
the borough, to the owner of such property or to any other person
lawfully entitled thereto or having an interest therein.
[Added 11-3-1976 by Ord.
No. 9-1976]
Within 30 days after such property is redeemed or disposed of
by public sale, the Chief of Police shall pay over to the Borough
Treasurer the amount received for said redemption or the proceeds
of the sale or other disposition of the property and at the same time
shall deliver to said Treasurer a detailed statement concerning said
redemption, including the identity of the property, the name and address
of and the amount received from the redemptor or the purchaser and
the costs and expenses incurred by the borough.
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove a cart, as defined
herein, from the property of any retail establishment.
[Amended 11-3-1976 by Ord. No. 9-1976]
Any person who shall violate the provisions of this chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding
$500 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both such
fine and imprisonment.
