[Amended 5-28-1996 by Ord.
No. 1012-96]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
SHOPPING CART
Those pushcarts of the type or types which are commonly provided
by grocery stores, markets and other types of stores for the use of the public
in transporting commodities in stores, markets and other types of stores and
incidentally from the store to a place outside the store.
Any person who makes any use of any shopping cart, belonging to or furnished
by the owner of the store, market or shopping center, for assembling or moving
of groceries, foodstuffs and allied products there purchased shall, after
such use, promptly return the shopping cart to the property from whence taken.
[Amended 5-28-1996 by Ord.
No. 1012-96]
Any other use made of said shopping carts, including the abandonment
of the same upon the streets, highways, alleys and other public ways of the
city, shall be deemed a public nuisance; and any person found guilty of committing
such a nuisance shall, upon conviction thereof in summary proceedings, be
sentenced to pay a fine of not more than six hundred dollars ($600.) or to
confinement to the city jail for not more than ninety (90) days, or both such
fine and imprisonment.
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
SHOPPING CART
Those pushcarts of the type or types which are commonly provided
by grocery stores, markets and other types of stores for the use of the public
in transporting commodities in stores, markets and other types of stores and
incidentally from the store to a place outside the store.
[Amended 5-28-1996 by Ord.
No. 1012-96]
Any shopping cart found abandoned upon the highways, streets, alleys,
sidewalks or other public ways shall be deemed to be a public nuisance. Any
such cart shall be impounded by the city in a central pound, namely, the City
Garage.
[Amended 9-9-1996 by Ord.
No. 1033-96]
The city shall notify the owners of such carts, setting forth the number
of carts so impounded and directing said owner to redeem the same within thirty
(30) days from the date of said notice.
[Amended 5-28-1996 by Ord.
No. 1012-96; 9-9-1996 by Ord.
No. 1033-96]
The owner redeeming any such cart shall pay to the city a pound fee as provided in Chapter
108, Fees, for each cart impounded, upon the release of said cart by the city. The fee to be paid to the city shall be as provided for in Chapter
108, Fees.
In the event that any such cart is not redeemed within thirty (30) days from the date of the notice provided for in §
187-6 above and in the case of a cart which cannot be identified because the same is not properly tagged with the owner's name, the city may proceed to sell such cart or carts by following the procedure set forth in the Uniform Commercial Code, governing warehousemen, namely, Subsection 2 of an Act of Assembly dated April 6, 1953, P.L. No. 37-210, as amended.
This Article supplements Article
I, regulating the use of shopping carts, and is not intended to repeal any of the terms thereof.