B. "City" means the City of Chicago.
C. "City employee" means any employee or official of the city, including any city representative but, unless otherwise specified in this ordinance, shall not include members of boards or commissions whose duties and responsibilities are part-time in nature.
D. "City representative" means the mayor; members of the city council; the commissioner of business affairs and consumer protection; the cable administrator; and all other city employees designated by the cable administrator on the basis of their relevance to cable communications in the City of Chicago.
E. "Communication" means the discussion, presentation or any oral, written or other transmission of information relating in any way to cable communications in the City of Chicago.
F. "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, political or campaign contribution or loan or gift of money or anything of value or the conferring of an economic benefit or the incurring of an economic cost, and includes a contract, promise or agreement; whether or not legally enforceable; whether or not made or incurred in the City of Chicago; relating in any way to cable communications in the City of Chicago; "expenditure" includes expenditures by a person's parent corporation, subsidiary, predecessor or other affiliated entity or by any business or professional entity with which an individual is affiliated or associated.
G. "Grantee" means any person granted a cable franchise pursuant to Chapter 4-280 of the Municipal Code or any successor ordinance or provisions of law relating to the same subject matter, and the person's lawful and approved successors, transferees or assignees.
H. "Interest" means any economic interest or relationship, whether by ownership, purchase, sale, lease, contract, option, investment, employment, gift, fee or otherwise; whether present, promised or reasonably expected; whether direct or indirect; whether or not legally enforceable; whether in the person itself or in a parent or subsidiary corporation or in another subsidiary of the same parent. "Interest" shall not include ownership through purchase at fair market value of less than one percent of the shares of a parent subsidiary or other affiliated corporation whose shares are registered on a national securities exchange pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. "Interest" shall also not include any interest provided equally to all cable subscribers or to all persons who agree to become cable subscribers or any interest publicly determined by the cable administrator to be so minor that it doesn't reasonably constitute an actual or apparent conflict of interest.
I. "Municipal Code" means the Municipal Code of the City of Chicago.
J. "Ownership interest" means any economic interest or relationship, whether by ownership or investment; whether present, promised or reasonably expected; whether direct or indirect; whether or not legally enforceable; whether in the person itself or in a parent or subsidiary corporation or in another subsidiary of the same parent. "Ownership interest" shall not include ownership through purchase at fair market value of less than one percent of the shares of a parent, subsidiary or other affiliated corporation whose shares are registered on a national securities exchange pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. "Ownership interest" shall also not include any interest publicly determined by the cable administrator to be so minor that it doesn't reasonably constitute an actual or apparent conflict of interest.
K. "Person" means an individual, firm, corporation, cooperative, association, trust, partnership, joint venture, combination or other legally recognized entity.
(Prior code § 113.2-14; Added Coun. J. 6-20-84, p. 7810; Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 11-19-03, p. 13426, § 2.5; Amend Coun. J. 11-13-07, p. 14999, Art. I, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-17-10, p. 106597, Art. VIII, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 4-24-12, p. 23998, § 1)
Editor's note – Coun. J. 4-24-12, p. 23998, § 1, renumbered former § 4-284-130 as § 4-284-120, and renumbered former § 4-284-140 as this § 4-284-130.