New Ordinance Goes Into Effect October 5 Aims to Reduce Shopping Cart Issues

September 22, 2023 Rob Taylor

The Coos Bay City Council passed a new ordinance aimed at curbing the abandoned shopping cart issue during the September 5, 2023, meeting. This was after several work sessions and invitations to local businesses to collaborate in the process. The new ordinance requires businesses to make available to the public a phone number that can be called if someone from the public finds the businesses’ shopping cart off their premises.

These phone numbers will also be placed on the carts. The City of Coos Bay encourages members of the public to help our local businesses and community by reporting abandoned carts to the appropriate number listed on the cart, or at the business.

The Coos Bay Police Department recognizes that these carts are abandoned throughout the community after being stolen from the business. Coos Bay Police are working with local businesses to hold cart thieves accountable in an effort to reduce abandoned carts. Stolen shopping cart can be reported to the Coos Bay Police Department at 541-269-8911

Full text of the new code can be found in the Coos Bay Municipal Code Chapter 8.60.

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