California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §22435.5: (a) In any civil proceeding, any shopping cart or laundry cart which has a sign affixed to it pursuant to Section 22435.

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

A signed shopping or laundry cart creates a legal presumption in civil cases and an inference in criminal cases that it belongs to the named person or business and has not been abandoned.

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(a) In any civil proceeding, any shopping cart or laundry cart which has a sign affixed to it pursuant to Section 22435.1 shall establish a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of producing evidence that the property is that of the person or business named in the sign and not abandoned by the person or business named in the sign. (b) In any criminal proceeding, it may be inferred that any shopping cart or laundry cart which has a sign affixed to it pursuant to Section 22435.1 is the property of the person or business named in the sign and has not been abandoned by the person or business named in the sign.

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