Chapter 8.60
SHOPPING CART PROVIDERS
Sections:
8.60.010 Requirements for shopping cart providers.
8.60.010 Requirements for shopping cart providers.
A person, business, or entity (“owner”) that supplies shopping carts for public use shall:
(1) Post signs in sufficient numbers to give notice to members of the public entering onto or leaving the business premises that unauthorized appropriation of a shopping cart is a crime under ORS 164.015.
(2) Identify the owner’s business on each shopping cart and post a sign on the shopping cart that:
(a) Notifies any member of the public using the shopping cart that unauthorized appropriation of a shopping cart is a crime under ORS 164.015; and
(b) Provides a toll-free or local telephone number for use in reporting an abandoned shopping cart.
(3) Establish, maintain, and make available to the public, at the owner’s expense, a toll-free or local telephone line for the purpose of reporting abandoned shopping carts. Incoming calls regarding abandoned shopping carts, and timely response, shall be sole responsibility of the owner, including notification to the Coos Bay police department’s community resource unit.
(4) Establish and maintain, at the expense of the owner, a shopping cart retrieval group or program.
(5) Timely retrieval of abandoned shopping carts belonging to the owner. [Ord. 567 § 1, 2023].
8.60.020 Fees and penalties.
(1) An owner shall retrieve a shopping cart within 72 hours after receiving notification that the shopping cart has been abandoned. A shopping cart shall be determined to be abandoned if it is identified off the premises where it is intended for normal business use.
(2) If the city identifies, salvages, takes custody, or reclaims an abandoned shopping cart, it shall contact the owner to report the existence and location of an abandoned shopping cart, if the owner is identifiable.
(3) If the owner is unidentifiable by reasonable means, the shopping cart may be immediately disposed of as the city deems appropriate.
(4) The city may impose a fine up to $50.00 on the owner if they do not retrieve the shopping cart within 72 hours after they receive a report of its existence.
(5) The city may release a shopping cart in the city of Coos Bay’s custody to the owner upon payment of the $50.00 fine.
(6) The city may take title to a shopping cart in the city of Coos Bay’s custody and dispose of the shopping cart as the city of Coos Bay deems appropriate if the owner does not claim the cart within 30 calendar days of being notified by the city.
(7) An owner who elects to install an electronic shopping cart wheel lock or similar theft prevention device on all shopping carts owned at their business location is not subject to this chapter. [Ord. 567 § 2, 2023].