STATUTORY REFERENCES
Obstruction of public grounds — See Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 1202(4) and (12).
[Ord. 254, passed 1-10-1966]
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MERCHANT
Either the owner of a business, if it is owner operated, or the manager of a business if the same is not operated by the owner, or the person normally in charge of a business where there is no owner or operator normally present within the Borough.
SHOPPING CART
Those mobile vehicles used for the transportation and portage by human propulsion, of goods and merchandise in and about the markets, stores, shops, shopping centers and business establishments in the Borough, which vehicles are of a size of less than six feet in length and less than five feet high and less than four feet wide.
[Ord. 254, passed 1-10-1966]
No merchant of any store, shop, market, supermarket or business establishment shall have on the premises where such store, shop, market, supermarket or business establishment is located, or supply to any patron or customer of such store, shop, market, supermarket or business establishment, any shopping cart, or permit the use of any shopping cart, without having securely attached thereto a permanent tag, label or plate of identification, setting forth the name of the store and the location of its use.
[Ord. 254, passed 1-10-1966]
No merchant of any store, shop, market, supermarket or business establishment shall permit any shopping cart supplied by such store, shop, market, supermarket or business establishment to remain on any sidewalk, street, highway, parking lot or private or public thoroughfare of the Borough.
[Ord. 254, passed 1-10-1966]
The presence of any shopping cart on any sidewalk, street, highway, parking lot or public or private thoroughfare of the Borough shall be presumed to be with the acknowledged consent of the merchant of the store, shop, market, supermarket or business establishment to which it belongs.
[Ord. 254, passed 1-10-1966]
Any unattended shopping cart found upon any sidewalk, street, highway, parking lot or private or public thoroughfare of the Borough is hereby declared to be a nuisance and the police are hereby authorized and directed to remove the same and store such shopping cart with the Police Department.
[Ord. 254, passed 1-10-1966]
Any confiscated shopping cart may be sold at auction by the Police Department after 30-days' storage by the Department and 10 days' prior notice to the business named on the identification tag of those shopping carts with identification tags and after 30-days' storage of those shopping carts without identification tags.
[Ord. 254, passed 1-10-1966]
Any shopping cart removed to the Police Department under § 832.05 may be returned to the owner thereof upon payment by the owner to the Borough Secretary, for the use of the Borough, of an amount as set forth in § 208.03(D) of the Administration Code. Such payment shall be in addition to the penalty provided in § 832.99.
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Editor's Note: See § 202.99 for general code penalty if no specific penalty is provided.