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revenue consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), revenues from home shopping Channels, upgrade and downgrade fees, • advertising revenue (to the extent considered revenue consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), Converter rental fees and Lockout Device fees. The term Gross Revenue shall not include any taxes on Services furnished by Grantee imposed by any municipality, state, or other governmental unit and collected by Grantee for such governmental unit. Franchise fees paid to the City are not deemed to be taxes and are not to be deducted from the total Gross Revenue figure on which Franchise Fees are paid. 3.15 "Installation" means the connection of the Cable System from feeder cable to the point of connection including Standard Installations and custom Installations with the Subscriber Converter or other terminal equipment. 3.16 "Lockout Device" means an optional mechanical or electrical accessory to a Subscriber's terminal which inhibits the viewing of a certain program, certain Channel, or certain Channels provided by way of the Cable System. 3.17 "Normal Business Hours" means those hours during whichmost similar businesses in City are open to serve customers. In all casds, "Normal Business Hours" must include at least one (1) night per week and/or some weekend hours. • 3.18 "Normal Operating Conditions" means those Service conditions which are within the control of Grantee. Those conditions which are not within the control of Grantee include, but are not limited to, natural disasters, civil disturbances, power outages, telephone network outages, and severe or unusual weather conditions. Those conditions which are ordinarily within the control of Grantee include, but are not limited to, special promotions, pay-per-view events, rate increases, regular peak or seasonal demand periods, and maintenance or upgrade/rebuild of the Cable System. -3.19 "Other Programming Service" means information that a cable operator makes available to all Subscribers generally. 3.20 "Pay Television" means the delivery over the System of pay -per channel or pay -per -program audio-visual signals to Subscribers for a fee or charge, in addition to the charge for Basic Cable Service or Cable Programming Services. 3.21 "Person" is any Person, firm, partnership association, corporation, company, limited liability entity or other legal entity. 3.22 "Public Property' means any real property, other than a Street, owned by any governmental unit. • 4