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Sec. 11.1-5. Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this article,
shall, for the purposes of this article, have the following
respective meanings, except where the context clearly indicates a
different meaning:

Purchaser. Every person who purchases a utility service.

Seller. Every person, whether a public service corporation of
the city or not, who sells or furnishes a utility service.

Utility services. Such phrase shall include local telephone
service, electricity service, gas service, water service and the
monthly or periodical television service, after installation,
through coaxial cable or any other medium on a franchise basis
(cooperative or community) furnished within the city. (Code 1959,
§ 34-1.)