ARTICLE I
Definitions
For the purpose of the grant of this franchise, the following terms shall have the meaning as described herein:
(a) “City” — shall mean the City of Deerfield, Kansas, and shall include when appropriate the context of the territorial boundaries of the City of Deerfield, Kansas, as they now or shall hereinafter exist.
(b) “Council” — shall mean the present governing body of the City of Deerfield, Kansas, or any successor to the legislative powers of the present City Council.
(c) “Franchise” — shall mean the permission, license, franchise or authority given hereunder to conduct and operate a cable television system in the City of Deerfield, Kansas
(d) “Grantee” — shall mean Pioneer Telephone Association, Inc., dba Pioneer Communications, or its subsidiary, successors, transferees or assigns of the franchise granted herein.
(e) “Street” — shall mean the surface of and the space below any public street, road, highway, freeway, lane, path, alley, court, sidewalk, parkway, drive or other easement now or hereafter held by the City of Deerfield, Kansas, for the purpose of public travel and shall include such other easements or rights-of-way as shall be now held or hereafter held by the City of Deerfield, which shall be within their proper use and meaning entitling the City of Deerfield and its grantee to the use thereof for the purpose of installing or transmitting cable television transmission over wires, cables, conductors, ducts, conduits, vaults, manholes, amplifiers, appliances, attachments, and other property as may be ordinarily necessary and pertinent to a cable television system.
(f) “Property of Grantee” — shall mean all property owned and installed or used by the grantee in the conduct of its cable television business in the City of Deerfield and under the authority of the franchise granted herein.
(g) “Cable Television System” — shall mean any system which operates for hire the service of receiving and amplifying programs broadcast by one or more television and/or radio stations and any other programs originated by a cable television company or by any other party and distributing such programs by wire, cable, microwave, coaxial cable, or other means, whether such means are owned or leased, to persons who subscribe to such service.
(h) “Subscriber” — shall mean any person or entity receiving for any purpose the cable television service of the grantee herein.
(i) “Person” — shall mean any individual or association of individuals, or any firm, corporation or other business entity.
(j) “Facilities of Grantee” or “Cable Television Facilities” — shall mean property of the grantee.