The Service Conservation Assessment is a fee placed on utility companies including municipally owned utilities of 2 percent.

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The St Petersburg city government is negotiating with Accor, a French group, over the management of three municipally owned mid-range tourist hotels.

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His vision includes making the power-hungry Sun Belt city into a leader in the new energy economy through initiatives like the largest municipally owned mega solar project and the Decade of Downtown inner-city revitalization program.

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Moreover, in the few areas of America where one cable company has built over a rival's existing system, where a telephone company has set up an experimental system to deliver television signals, or where there is an old, municipally owned cable system as well as a private one, competition has led to lower prices (see chart).

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