§ 9-3102. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

The Council of the City of Fresno finds that Abandoned Shopping Carts in the city create potential hazard to the health and safety of the public, and interfere with pedestrian and vehicular traffic and create a public nuisance. The accumulation of Abandoned Carts, sometimes wrecked and/or dismantled on public and private property tends to create conditions that reduce property values, and promote blight and deterioration and result in a public nuisance. This article is intended to insure that measures are taken by the owners of Shopping Carts to prevent the removal of the Shopping Carts from the Cart Owner's Business Premises, to make removal of the Cart a violation of the Code, and to facilitate the retrieval of Abandoned Shopping Carts in a manner consistent with State law and to use an administrative citation program to establish appropriate fines intended to act as a reasonable deterrent in preventing violations.

(Added Ord. 2014-18, § 1, eff. 4-25-14).