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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5changing Section 11-119.1-3 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/11-119.1-3)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.1-3)
7    Sec. 11-119.1-3. The following terms whenever used or
8referred to in this Division, shall have the following meanings
9unless the context requires otherwise:
10        (1) "Agency agreement" means the written agreement
11    between 2 or more municipalities establishing a municipal
12    power agency.
13        (2) "Bonds" means revenue bonds, notes and other
14    evidences of obligations of a municipal power agency issued
15    under the provisions of this Division.
16        (3) "Eligible utility" means a public agency or other
17    entity of any type, including an electric cooperative as
18    defined in Section 3.4 of the Electric Supplier Act, which
19    (i) owns, operates or controls any plant or equipment for
20    the generation, transmission or distribution of electric
21    power and energy in connection with the furnishing thereof
22    for sale or resale or (ii) is an independent system
23    operator within the electrical power system, a regional

 

 

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1    transmission organization within the electrical power
2    system, or an entity that participates as a buyer or seller
3    in an organized independent system operator market or
4    regional transmission organization market.
5        (4) "Governing body" means, with respect to a
6    municipality, the council, city council, board of
7    trustees, or other corporate authority of the municipality
8    which exercises the general governmental powers of such
9    municipality.
10        (5) "Municipal power agency" means a body politic and
11    corporate, municipal corporation and unit of local
12    government of the State of Illinois organized in accordance
13    with the provisions of this Division.
14        (6) "Municipality" means a city, village or
15    incorporated town in the State of Illinois owning or
16    operating an electric utility which furnishes retail
17    electric service to the public.
18        (7) "Project" means any plant, works, system,
19    facility, and real and personal property of any nature
20    whatsoever, together with all parts thereof and
21    appurtenances thereto, used or useful in the generation,
22    production, distribution, transmission, purchase, sale,
23    exchange or interchange of electrical energy and in the
24    acquisition, extraction, conversion, transportation,
25    storage or reprocessing of fuel of any kind for any such
26    purposes, or any interest in, or right to the use,

 

 

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1    services, output or capacity, of any such plant, works,
2    system or facilities.
3        (8) "Public agency" means any municipality, political
4    subdivision, municipal corporation, unit of local
5    government, governmental unit, or public corporation
6    operated by or pursuant to the laws of the State of
7    Illinois, of another state or of the United States, and any
8    state, the United States, and any commission, board, bureau
9    or other body declared by the laws of any state or the
10    United States to be a department, agency, or
11    instrumentality thereof.
12(Source: P.A. 83-997.)