(1) Town: shall mean the Town of Garfield, Washington, a municipal corporation of the State of Washington.

(2) Franchise: shall mean and include the authorization granted to grantee for the privilege to construct, operate and maintain a CATV system in the Town.

(3) Grantee: shall be any cable television system operator granted a franchise by resolution of the Town Council to operate a CATV system in the Town of Garfield. For the purposes of this Chapter, Northwest Cable Limited Partnership, and its successors and assigns, shall also be considered a “grantee”. All reference in this Chapter to “grantee” shall mean each respective grantee individually.

(4) Street: shall meant the surface of and the space above and below any public street, right of way, easement for public utilities, road, highway, freeway, lane, path, alley, court, sidewalk, or drive, now or thereafter existing as such within the Town.

(5) Property of Grantee: shall mean all property owned, installed or used by the grantee in the conduct of a CATV business in the Town under the authority of this franchise.

(6) CATV: shall mean a cable television system as hereinafter defined.

(7) Cable Television System: means a system, composed of, without limitation, antenna, cables, wires, lines, towers, wave guides, laser beams, or any other conductors, converters, equipment or facilities, designed, constructed or wired for the purpose of producing, receiving, amplifying and distributing by coaxial cable audio and/or visual radio, television, electronic or electrical signals to and from person, subscribers and locations in the Town.

(8) Subscriber: shall mean any person or entity receiving for any purpose the CATV service of the grantee.

(9) Gross Basic Subscriber Revenues: shall include all receipts derived by Grantee from basic subscriber services including charges resulting from the carriage of broadcast signals and Federal Communications Commission mandated, non-broadcast services within the Town; provided, however, that to the extent receipts or disbursements relating to the following items are included in the above Gross Basic Subscribed Revenues shall be deducted therefrom;