(a) Post signs in sufficient number 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 and to provide a toll-free telephone number that members of the public may use to report abandoned shopping carts.
(b) Identify the person’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 telephone number for use in reporting an abandoned shopping cart.
(c) Establish, maintain and make available to the public, at the person’s own expense, a toll-free telephone line for the purpose of reporting abandoned shopping carts. The person shall forward each report the person receives concerning an abandoned shopping cart to the owner of the shopping cart and to the appropriate local government within one business day after the person receives the report. The person may forward the report to the local government by means of electronic mail or in any other manner provided for in a local government regulation.
(d) Retrieve or contract for the retrieval of abandoned shopping carts.
(2) An ordinance, charter provision, resolution or other regulation enacted or adopted in accordance with ORS 98.515 shall provide that a person may agree with other persons to share and to pay expenses related to the toll-free telephone line described in subsection (1)(c) of this section. The agreement shall provide that any person designated to operate the toll-free telephone line and receive reports concerning abandoned shopping carts must forward the reports in accordance with subsection (1)(c) of this section.
(3) An ordinance, charter provision, resolution or other regulation enacted or adopted in accordance with ORS 98.515 shall provide that a person shall retrieve a shopping cart that the person owns within 72 hours after receiving notification that the shopping cart has been abandoned.
(4) An ordinance, charter provision, resolution or other regulation enacted or adopted in accordance with ORS 98.515 shall provide that:
(a) A local government that identifies, salvages or reclaims an abandoned shopping cart shall use the toll-free telephone line described in subsection (1)(c) of this section to report the existence and location of an abandoned shopping cart to the owner of the shopping cart, if the owner is identifiable;
(b) A local government may take custody of an abandoned shopping cart and impose a fine of $50 on the owner of the shopping cart if the owner does not retrieve the shopping cart within 72 hours after the local government makes a report under paragraph (a) of this subsection or after the owner receives a report under subsection (1)(c) of this section;
(c) A local government may release a shopping cart held in the local government’s custody to the owner upon payment of the fine; and
(d) A local government may take title to a shopping cart in the local government’s custody and dispose of the shopping cart as the local government deems appropriate, if the owner does not claim the shopping cart within 30 days.
(5) For purposes of this section, "local government" means a city, county, special district or other public commission, authority or entity organized under state statute or city or county charter. [Formerly 199.891]
Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 03 - Landlord-Tenant, Domestic Relations, Probate
Chapter 098 - Lost, Unclaimed or Abandoned Property; Vehicle Towing
Section 98.005 - Rights and duties of finder of money or goods.
Section 98.045 - Applicability to unclaimed prepaid transportation cards.
Section 98.050 - Finder’s reports; rules; fee.
Section 98.245 - Disposition of unclaimed property; notice of pending disposition; procedure.
Section 98.302 - Definitions for ORS 98.302 to 98.436.
Section 98.304 - Intangible property subject to custody of state.
Section 98.308 - Intangible property held by financial institution.
Section 98.309 - Traveler’s check or money order presumed abandoned.
Section 98.311 - Service charge on unclaimed property.
Section 98.314 - Unclaimed funds held by insurance companies.
Section 98.316 - Deposits and refunds held by utilities.
Section 98.319 - U.S. savings bonds presumed abandoned; escheat proceedings.
Section 98.322 - Intangible equity ownership interests in business associations.
Section 98.329 - Delivery of property before presumed abandoned; rules.
Section 98.332 - Property held by fiduciaries.
Section 98.336 - Property held by government and public authorities.
Section 98.338 - Credit memo unclaimed by owner.
Section 98.342 - Miscellaneous personal property held for another person.
Section 98.352 - Report of abandoned property.
Section 98.353 - Information on filing report.
Section 98.354 - Records of ownership or issuance of instruments to be maintained.
Section 98.356 - Notice and publication of lists of unclaimed property; rules.
Section 98.362 - Delivery of certificate of ownership of intangible equity ownership interest.
Section 98.366 - Relief from liability by payment or delivery.
Section 98.379 - Retention of abandoned military medals; transfer of custody; rules.
Section 98.382 - Sale of abandoned and unclaimed property; methods; rules.
Section 98.386 - Deposit of funds.
Section 98.389 - Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund; transfers from fund.
Section 98.392 - Claiming unclaimed property; lawyer trust account funds; rules.
Section 98.396 - Determination of claim; payment; reimbursement.
Section 98.402 - Hearing on claim; petition to compel action.
Section 98.412 - Verified report; examination of records; failure to maintain records.
Section 98.416 - Proceeding to compel delivery of unclaimed property; interest.
Section 98.432 - Uniformity of interpretation.
Section 98.450 - Unordered goods presumed gifts.
Section 98.470 - Definitions for ORS 98.470 to 98.490.
Section 98.480 - Notice to customer; contents.
Section 98.515 - Unauthorized appropriation of shopping carts.
Section 98.640 - Owner’s duty to remove trees, logs, poles or piling deposited on state highways.
Section 98.650 - Owner’s duty to remove trees, logs, poles or piling deposited on county roads.
Section 98.805 - Definitions for ORS 98.810 to 98.818, 98.830 and 98.840.
Section 98.810 - Unauthorized parking of vehicle on proscribed property prohibited.
Section 98.811 - Notice of parking violation; certificate of nonliability; dismissal of notice.
Section 98.820 - Towing vehicle from fuel dispensary premises; civil immunity; lien.
Section 98.830 - Towing abandoned vehicle from private property; civil immunity; lien.
Section 98.850 - Legislative findings and declaration.
Section 98.852 - Definitions for ORS 98.853 to 98.862.
Section 98.853 - Conditions allowing towing; conditions requiring release of vehicle.
Section 98.854 - Prohibitions placed on tower.
Section 98.856 - Tower responsibility of disclosure to owner or operator of vehicle.
Section 98.857 - Recovery of stolen vehicle; tower responsibility to notify owner.
Section 98.859 - Maximum rates for towing; process for complaints; exceptions.
Section 98.861 - Licenses for towing; fees.