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 or reincorporated form.
ENGINEER: The engineer of the city.
GAS: Natural or manufactured gas, or a mixture of natural and manufactured gas.
GRANTEE: The corporation to which the franchise contemplated in this chapter is granted and its lawful successors or assigns.
LAY AND USE: To lay, construct, erect, install, operate, maintain, use, repair, replace, or remove.
PIPES AND APPURTENANCES: Pipe, pipeline, main, service, trap, vent, vault, manhole, meter, gauge, regulator, valve, conduit, appliance, attachment, appurtenance 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 distribution of gas.
STREETS: The public streets, ways, alleys and places as the same now or may hereafter exist within the city. (Ord. 825 § 1, 1941)