The City of Las Cruces has determined that the unauthorized removal of shopping carts, or parts thereof, on public and private property from retail establishments constitutes a nuisance, creates potential hazards to the health, welfare, and safety of the public, and interferes with pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
The accumulation of wrecked, dismantled, and/or abandoned shopping carts on public and/or private property creates conditions that reduce property values and promote blight and neighborhood deterioration within the city. The City added to the municipal code a chapter to make the removal of shopping carts from the premises of a business establishment a violation of code.
This chapter ensures store owners will take action to reduce the removal of shopping carts from a business establishment’s premises. This chapter will require business establishment owners to facilitate in the retrieval of those shopping carts removed from the establishment’s premises. Addition of this Chapter was discussed at the April 29, 2024, Special Work Session.
On August 5, 2024, Las Cruces City Council passed an ordinance, adding CHAPTER 18 (Nuisances), ARTICLE III – Shopping Cart Containment and Retrieval, to the Las Cruces Municipal Code (LCMC), 1997 as amended.
Shopping Cart Containment & Retrieval Plan Requirements and Guidelines
