For purposes of this chapter, certain words and phrases shall be construed as follows:
(1) "Crude oil producer" means every person, partnership, association or corporation conducting, managing, carrying on or engaging in the business or activity of producing crude oil, gas, petroleum or other hydrocarbon substances.
(2) "Tax administrator" means the city manager or his or her designee.
(3) "Wellhead" means the place and/or facility where crude oil is brought to the surface, whether or not such crude oil is removed at that location or transferred to another facility.
(4) "Barrel" means, and shall be measured to consist of, forty-two U.S. gallons of crude petroleum substances corrected for temperature variations in accordance with methods generally approved in the petroleum industry. "Petroleum substances" means crude oil remaining after the removal therefrom of water and other impurities by preliminary processing in the vicinity of the wellhead site preparatory to the shipment thereof.
(5) "City" means the corporate boundaries of the city as they now exist or may exist in the future.
(Ord. 348 § 1 (part), 1983).