For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUSINESS USE and INDUSTRIAL USE. The use of premises, or a portion thereof, for a purpose other than residential.
COMPANY, GRANTEE and FRANCHISEE. Any private utility system to which a franchise has been granted by the city.
CONSUMER and CUSTOMER. Any user of a utility.
MUNICIPAL UTILITY. Any municipally owned utility system.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE and RESIDENTIAL USE. Furnishing a utility to premises all, or a portion of which, are used exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family and two-family dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, boarding houses or apartment houses, unless each unit or apartment is metered separately.
SERVICE. Providing a particular utility to a consumer or customer.
UTILITY. All utility services, whether the same be public municipally-owned facilities or furnished by private utility companies, except those the regulation of which has been placed under the exclusive authority of the state or federal government.
(`86 Code, § 3.01)