Section 362. Definitions

For the purposes of this charter:
    a.  "Concession"  shall mean a grant made by an agency for the private
  use of city-owned property for  which  the  city  receives  compensation
  other  than  in  the form of a fee to cover administrative costs, except
  that concessions shall not include franchises,  revocable  consents  and
  leases.
    b. "Franchise" shall mean a grant by an agency of a right to occupy or
  use the inalienable property of the city to provide a public service.
    c.  "Responsible  Agency"  shall mean (1) with respect to a franchise,
  the agency designated by the mayor pursuant  to  section  three  hundred
  sixty-three  or three hundred seventy-eight as the agency having primary
  expertise and responsibility for the type  of  franchise  involved,  (2)
  with  respect  to  a revocable consent, the agency authorized to grant a
  revocable consent of the type involved pursuant to section three hundred
  sixty-four, or (3) with respect to a concession, the agency  granting  a
  concession.
    d.  "Revocable  Consent"  shall  mean  a grant by the city of a right,
  revocable at will, (1) to any person to construct and  use  for  private
  use  pipes,  conduits  and  tunnels  under,  railroad  tracks  upon, and
  connecting bridges over inalienable property, (2) to an  owner  of  real
  property or, with the consent of the owner, to a tenant of real property
  to  use  adjacent  inalienable  property  for  such  purposes  as may be
  permitted by rules of the department of transportation or the department
  of information technology and telecommunications  or  (3)  to  a  public
  service  corporation  for  facilities  ancillary  to,  but not within, a
  franchise granted prior to the effective date of this section.