As used in this chapter:
(a) "Basic cable service" means any service tier which includes the retransmission of local television broadcast signals.
(b) "Cable Television Commission" means the advisory body created by this chapter to recommend measures in connection with the enforcement and development of this chapter.
(c) "Cable television service" means the delivery to subscribers, via a cable system, of video programming, data services and ancillary audio and data signals and any associated upstream or downstream data or polling information directly or incidentally related to the delivery of such programming, and any upstream or downstream institutional programming.
(d) "City" means the City of Howell.
(e) "Community antenna television system," "CATV system" or "cable system" means a system of cables or other electrical or optical conductors and equipment used or to be used primarily to receive television and/or radio signals directly or indirectly from the atmosphere and to transmit such signals via cable or other equipment to subscribers in the City.
(f) "Council" means the City Council of the City of Howell.
(g) "Federal Communications Commission" or "FCC" means the present Federal agency of that name as constituted by the Communications Act of 1934, or any successor agency created by the United States Congress.
(h) "Franchise" means a nonexclusive, limited authorization awarded by ordinance for the construction, maintenance, upgrade and operation of a CATV system in the City.
(i) "Grantee" means any holder of a CATV franchise granted pursuant to this chapter.
(j) "Gross revenues" means any and all receipts and revenues, including revenue from advertising or data services, received directly or indirectly from all sources and/or users other than transactions related to the sale or lease of real property by a grantee, not including any taxes on services furnished by a grantee and imposed on any subscriber or user by any governmental unit, and collected by a grantee. Revenues that are derived as a portion of a national or regional service shall be computed on a per subscriber basis if such determination cannot be achieved by other means.
(k) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization.
(l) "Subscriber" means any person who contracts with the grantee for, or is in any manner lawfully provided with, cable services.
(m) "User" means any person who is provided the use of the grantee's CATV system, channels, equipment or facilities.
(Ord. 615. Passed 9-5-95.)