Whenever in this chapter the words or phrases hereinafter in this section defined are used, they shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the following definitions (unless, in the given instance, the context wherein they are used shall clearly import a different meaning):
CITY: The city of Redlands, a municipal corporation of the state of California, in its present incorporated form or in any later reorganized, consolidated, enlarged or reincorporated form.
CONSTITUTIONAL FRANCHISE: The right acquired through acceptance by such grantee or its predecessor in estate of the offer contained in the provisions of section 19 of article XI of the constitution of the state of California, as such section existed prior to its amendment on October 10, 1911, and now owned by such grantee, which entitles it to use the public streets and thoroughfares of the city for introducing and supplying such city and its inhabitants with illuminating light.
CONSTRUCT AND USE: To lay, construct, erect, install, operate, maintain, use, repair or replace.
GRANTEE: The corporation to which the franchise contemplated in this chapter is granted and its lawful successors or assigns.
POLES, WIRES, CONDUITS AND APPURTENANCES: Poles, towers, crossarms, conduits, cables, wires, service wires, guywire, vaults, manholes, appliances, attachments, appurtenances and any other property located, or to be located, in, upon, along, across, under or over the streets of the city and used or useful in the transmitting and/or distributing of electricity and electrical energy.
STREETS: The public streets, ways, alleys and places as the same now are or may hereafter exist within the city. (Ord. 793 § 1, 1937)