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SC~ Attachment 1 Details of the Ordinance The guiding philosophy in the development of this ordinance has been to achieve the goal of a cart-free City through adoption of an enforceable ordinance. Key features of the ordinance include: 1) Signs required on shopping carts - Name of the cart owner or related business establishment, notification that the unauthorized removal or possession of the cart is a violation of law, a local telephone number (owned by the City) to report the location of abandoned carts, an address to return the cart to its owner, and notice to the public of a procedure to be used for authorized removal of the cart from the premises. 2) Mandatory Plan/ Evaluation Report - Every owner of carts is required to prepare a plan to prevent removal of carts from their premises and to promptly retrieve carts. The plan must be approved by the City. The contents of the plan shall include: a) Written notice to inform customers of State and local law regarding cart theft, b) Signs to be posted on or near doors and in the parking lot warning of State and City prohibitions against cart removal, c) Physical Measures, such as disabling devices, security guards, bollards and chains or security deposits to prevent removal of carts from store premises, and d) Evaluation Report. The plan to prevent cart removal and provide for retrieval of carts, including the evaluation report, shall be submitted for approval by the City within 30 days of the effective date of the ordinance and by July 1 each year thereafter. If an approved prevention plan was in effect during the previous year, an evaluation report must be submitted by July 1 of each year thereafter. If a new plan is submitted, the proposed measures shall be implemented no later than thirty days after City approval is given. If a proposed plan is the same as the previous year, the prevention measures shall be continued until and unless the City indicates that a measure(s) needs to be modified. Unless otherwise agreed, any modifications to the plan imposed by the City shall be implemented within 30 days after City notification. Failure to comply shall be subject to administrative penalties or prosecution punishable as a misdemeanor. The City is authorized to require the placement of disabling devices on all carts ownedlleased used by the business to prevent removal of carts from the business premises and parking lots if an owner fails to submit a plan, implement an approved plan, or implement any modifications to the plan required by the City within the time frames specified within the ordinance. Any owner that fails to submit an evaluation report as outlined in Section 14.122 of the ordinance by July 1 st of each year or fails to place a disabling device on all carts, if applicable, shall be subject to a $1,000 penalty. 3) Exemption through the City/Store Retrieval Service - Retailers who enter into an agreement with the City for the citywide, City-sponsored cart retrieval program are exempt from the requirement of preparing the plan described in (2) above. .~_.... "-"'T ....