As used this chapter:
(a) "City Manager" means the City Manager of the City of Ionia, and shall include his or her designee.
(b) "Electrical system" shall include electric lines, towers, masts, poles, cross-arms, guides, braces, feeders, transmission and distribution wires, transformers and other electrical appliances used in the transmission of electricity existing on, along, across or under the highways, streets, alleys, bridges (hereinafter "rights-of-way") within the City of Ionia.
(c) "Franchise" means a revocable franchise that allows a person to be a retail wheel electrical provider.
(d) "Person" means an individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership or limited liability company, including its lessors, trustees and receivers.
(e) "Retail wheel electrical provider" or "provider" means a person supplying or desiring to supply electricity, generated by another, through an electrical system entirely or substantially owned by another.
(Ord. 388. Passed 3-7-00.)