ORDINANCE NO. __________, SERIES 2016
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AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING IDENTIFICATION OF SHOPPING CARTS AND ESTABLISHING CIVIL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.
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Sponsored By: Council Members Pat Mulvihill, Rick Blackwell
and Vicki Aubrey Welch
WHEREAS, Louisville Metro Council finds that abandoned shopping carts create a potential hazard to the health and safety of the public, interfere with pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and create a public nuisance;
WHEREAS, the Council further finds that the accumulation of abandoned carts on public and private property tends to create conditions that reduce property values, and promotes blight and deterioration and result in a public nuisance;
WHEREAS, the Council further finds that the owners of shopping carts should be responsible for placing identification and contact information on all shopping carts so the owner may be contacted to retrieve any carts found off the owner's business premises; and
WHEREAS, the Council deems it to be in the best interest of the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Louisville Metro to provide for regulations of shopping carts to enhance the aesthetic appearance of Louisville Metro, and prevent potential traffic and pedestrian hazards and nuisances associated with abandoned shopping carts;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT (THE COUNCIL) AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I: A new section of the Louisville Metro Code of Ordinances is hereby enacted as follows:
? ______ DEFINITIONS.
"Shopping cart" means a basket which is mounted on wheels or a similar device provided by the operator of a commercial establishment for the use of customers for the purpose of transporting goods of any kind. A cart sold by a commercial establishment to a retail customer for that customer's personal use is not a shopping cart for the purposes of Section II hereof [?____].
SECTION II: A new section of the Louisvi...
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