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• <br /> SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS <br /> For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following terms, phrases, words and their <br /> derivations shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words <br /> used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural include the singular, and words in <br /> the singular include the plural. Words not defined shall be given their common and ordinary <br /> meaning. The word"shall"is always mandatory and not merely directory. <br /> 1.1 "Access" means the availability for noncommercial use by various agencies, institutions, <br /> organizations, groups and individuals in the community,including the City and its designees,of the <br /> Cable System to acquire, create, receive, and distribute Cable Services as permitted under <br /> applicable law including,but not limited to: <br /> a. "F.dncatinnal Access" means Access where schools are the primary users having <br /> editorial control over programming and services. <br /> b. "Government Access" means Access where governmental institutions or their <br /> designees are the primary users having editorial control over programming and services. <br /> 1.2 "Access Channel" means any Channel, or portion thereof, designated for Access purposes <br /> or otherwise made available to facilitate or transmit Access programming or services. <br /> 1.3 "Activated"means the status of any capacity or part of the Cable System in which any Cable <br /> Service requiring the use of that capacity or part is available without further installation of system <br /> equipment,whether hardware or software,other than subscriber premises equipment. <br /> 1.4 "Affiliate,"when used in connection with Grantee,means any Person who owns or controls, <br /> is owned or controlled by,or is under common ownership or control with Grantee. <br /> 1.5 "Rad Debt" means amounts lawfully billed to a Subscriber and owed by the Subscriber for <br /> Cable Service and accrued as revenues on the books of Grantee, but not collected after reasonable <br /> efforts have been made by Grantee to collect the charges. <br /> 1.6 "Basic. Service" means the Cable Service Tier which includes, at a minimum, the <br /> retransmission of local television Broadcast Signals and Access Channels. <br /> 1.7 "Broadcast Signal" means a television or radio signal transmitted over the air to a wide <br /> geographic audience, and received by a Cable System by antenna, microwave, satellite dishes or <br /> any other means. <br /> 1.8 "Cable Act" means the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 as amended by the Cable <br /> Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and the Telecommunications Act of <br /> 1996,as any of them may be amended. <br /> Page 7 of 58 <br />