Effective January 1, 2023, retailers shall only offer customers reusable carryout bags or recycled paper carryout bags. At point of sale, a retailer may provide a customer with one (1) or more recycled paper carryout bags or disposable carryout bag only if the customer pays a fee of twenty cents ($0.20) per recycled paper carryout bag.

Nothing in this Chapter shall prohibit retailers from making reusable bags available for sale or at no cost to customers.

Nothing in this Chapter shall prohibit customers from using bags of any type that the customers bring into the store or from carrying away goods purchased by such customers that are not placed in a bag. (Ord. No. 2022-07 §2 (Exh. A)).