OCEANSIDE, Calif. — The City Council here is expected to give final approval next week to what an official termed a business-friendly law that would require store owners to take more responsibility for keeping shopping carts on their premises. The council gave unanimous approval for the law in a preliminary vote earlier in the week under which retailers who own more than 10 carts will be required to maintain an outside or in-house retrieval service to pick up abandoned carts; any company with more than 10 abandoned carts in a week will have to submit a formal retrieval plan to the city, at a cost of $100 for processing, a city official told SN, and if that plan fails, the city will continue to work with retailers to find a netter solution, he added. Retailers here will also be required to post signs on their premises informing customers that cart removal is against the law; state laws already require carts to carry the name of the retail store that owns them. Oceanside is located a few miles north of San Diego.

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