111.0.16. In this division, “public service” means(1) a municipality or intermunicipal agency;
(1.1) an institution and a regional board governed by the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) that are not contemplated by paragraph 2 of section 111.2;
(2) an institution or regional council within the meaning of paragraphs a and f of section 1 of the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5) that is not contemplated in paragraph 2 of section 111.2;
(3) a telephone service;
(4) a fixed schedule land transport service such as a railway or a subway, or a transport service carried on by bus or by boat;
(5) an undertaking engaged in the production, transmission, distribution or sale of gas or electricity and a gas storage enterprise;
(5.1) a service operating or maintaining a waterworks system or sewer system or a water purification or treatment system;
(5.2) an organization for the protection of the forest against fire certified under section 125 of the Forest Act (chapter F-4.1);
(6) an undertaking engaging in the incineration of waste or the removal, transportation, storage, treatment, processing or elimination of household garbage, bio-medical waste, dead animals unfit for human consumption or animal residues intended for salvaging;
(7) an ambulance service enterprise, the Corporation d’urgences-santé de la région de Montréal Métropolitain, the entity responsible for the coordination centre of calls from persons and establishments requesting ambulance services, not contemplated by paragraph 2 of section 111.2 or an enterprise involved in the collection, transportation or distribution of blood or blood products or human organs for transplantation; or
(8) an agency that is a mandatary of the Government, except the Société des alcools du Québec and an agency or body whose personnel is appointed and remunerated in accordance with the Public Service Act (chapter F-3.1.1).