(220 ILCS 30/5) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 405)
Sec. 5.
Each electric supplier is entitled, except as otherwise provided in
this Act or (in the case of public utilities) the Public Utilities Act,
to (a) furnish service to customers at locations which it is serving on the
effective date of this Act, (b) furnish service to customers or premises
which it is not now serving but which it had agreed to serve under
contracts in existence on the effective date of this Act, and (c) resume
service to any premises to which it has discontinued service in the
preceding 12 months and on which are still located the supplier's service
facilities.
Except as otherwise provided in this Act or (in the case of public
utilities) the Public Utilities Act, no electric supplier may construct new
lines, or extend existing lines, to furnish electric service to a customer
or his premises which another electric supplier is entitled to serve, as
provided in this Section, except with the written consent of such other
electric supplier subject to the approval of the Commission as to such
consent, if required.
This Section does not deprive an electric supplier of any right to
furnish permanent service under a contract existing on the effective date
of this Act to premises receiving temporary service from another supplier
on the effective date of this Act.
Nothing in this Section prevents a generation and transmission electric
cooperative from furnishing service to its member distribution electric
cooperatives which are not incorporated municipalities.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1206.)
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