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owner-operated municipal enterprise? Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:41 am  owner-operated municipal enterprise?
 

Hi,

Is this term used in English or do you have any other words for a company that provides services for the municipality and is run a private individual?

"owner-operated municipal enterprise"

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owner-operated municipal enterprise? Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:58 am  owner-operated municipal enterprise?
 

Hi Torsten,

I'm thrashing around here a bit on this but I'll have a go. Perhaps owner operated could be described as private sector and municipal enterprise could be simply utility. You would therefore end up with: utility run by the private sector.

Any use?

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owner-operated municipal enterprise? Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:49 am  owner-operated municipal enterprise?
 

Sounds good, Alan. Thanks a lot.
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Owner-operated municipal enterprise Wed Jul 18, 2007 14:35 pm  Owner-operated municipal enterprise
 

thanks for the translation for the term, but what means run by? Means this that the enterprise (utility) is included in the city structur or means this, that the utility is a legal entity. But the utility isn?t a legal entity.

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owner-operated municipal enterprise? Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:45 am  owner-operated municipal enterprise?
 

Hi Lissy,

So who is the owner of the company?
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owner-operated municipal enterprise? Thu Jul 19, 2007 17:31 pm  owner-operated municipal enterprise?
 

Dear Torsten,

the owner is a city.

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owner-operated municipal enterprise? Thu Jul 19, 2007 18:06 pm  owner-operated municipal enterprise?
 

Then it's a municipal utility company.
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