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The Las Cruces Police Department is hosting a pair of Shopping Cart Collection Initiatives at two separate locations on Oct. 10 and Oct. 15.

The Shopping Cart Collection Initiative is an opportunity for anyone who has possession of a shopping cart to relinquish it without consequences. Officers will accept the shopping carts, and they will not take any enforcement action during the initiative.

Police will then contact the businesses that own the carts so they can be retrieved.

The two collection sites will be:

  • Community of Hope, 999 W. Amador Ave.
  • Parking Lot, 2200 block of east Lohman Avenue near south Walnut Street.

Officers will be at both sites from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, and on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Shopping carts can be relinquished at either site, on either day.

The Shopping Cart Collection Initiative is being held in advance of the Oct. 16, 2024, date when police begin enforcing the new Shopping Cart Ordinance that was adopted by City Council in August. LCPD chose to delay enforcement of the ordinance until Oct. 16 to allow for education of the new regulation and the return of carts that may be in the possession of individuals within the community.

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