§ 53-1. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Bottled gas means all types and kinds of natural, liquefied petroleum and manufactured gas for lighting, heating, cooking, power or any other purpose delivered to any purchaser thereof within the corporate limits of the town.

Electricity means all electric current or energy for lighting, heating, cooking, power or any other purpose delivered to any purchaser thereof within the corporate limits of the town.

Metered gas means all types and kinds of natural and manufactured gas for lighting, heating, cooking, power or any other purpose delivered to any purchaser thereof within the corporate limits of the town.

Person means any individual, partnership, society, association, joint stock company, corporation, estate, receiver, trustee, assignee, referee or any other person acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, whether appointed by a court or otherwise, and any combination of individuals.

Purchase means every act or transaction whereby possession of, utilization of, control over or title to electricity, metered gas, bottled gas and telephone service, and the duty and obligation to pay therefor, become vested in the purchaser within the corporate limits of the town, but shall not pertain to nor include any such act or transaction when undertaken or performed by an agency or instrumentality of the government of the United States of America, the state, the county or the town.

Purchaser means every person legally liable for the payment of electricity, metered gas and bottled gas delivered, or telephone service rendered to him by a seller, unless such person is an agency or instrumentality of the government of the United States of America, the state, the county or the town.

Seller means every person delivering electricity, metered gas or bottled gas, or rendering telephone service to any purchaser thereof.

Telephone service means all such types and kinds of local service as are rendered by telephone companies to any purchaser of such service within the corporate limits of the town, including service relating to coin box telephones installed within such corporate limits insofar as such service requires the payment of a guaranteed amount, but shall not pertain to nor include the service rendered at the time of and in consideration of the deposit of money in the telephone coin boxes.

(Ord. No. 106, § 1, 3-5-62)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-3.