A. "City" means the city of Petaluma, a municipal corporation of the state, in its present incorporated form or in any later recognized, consolidated, enlarged or reincorporated form.

B. "Community antenna television system" or "CATV" means coaxial cables, wave guides or other conductors and equipment for providing television service by cable or through other similar hard-line facilities.

C. "Grantee" means the persons or corporations to whom or which a franchise under this chapter is granted by the city council and the lawful successor or assignee of such persons or corporations.

D. "Gross annual receipts" means any and all compensation in the form of gross rental or service receipts, excluding initial installation charges received directly or indirectly from subscribers or users in payment for television signal received within the city. Gross annual receipts do not include any taxes on the services furnished by the grantee imposed directly on any user or subscriber by any local, state or other government unit and collected by the grantee for such governmental unit.

E. "Street" means the surface of and the space above and below any public street, road, highway, freeway, lane, alley, court, sidewalk, parkway, easement or drive, existing as such within the city as of or after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter.

F. "Subscriber" means any person or entity receiving for any purpose the CATV service of the grantee in this chapter.