HB1740 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 05374 MJR 15440 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1740

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - George Scully, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

220 ILCS 5/8-302

from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-302

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the reading of meters.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing Section 8-302 as follows:

(220 ILCS 5/8-302) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-302)

Sec. 8-302. The The Commission shall require that every public utility furnishing natural or artificial gas, electricity or water to the public, where the individual consumption is measured by meter, shall, upon written request of any consumer, cause the meter reader at the time of reading such consumer's meter to leave at such meter a card showing the present reading of the meter, the last previous reading, and the dates of such two readings.

(Source: P.A. 84-617.)