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90_HB3533

      220 ILCS 5/16-116
          Amends the  Public  Utilities  Act.   Makes  a  technical
      change  in a Section concerning Commerce Commission oversight
      of electric utilities  serving  customers  outside  of  their
      service area.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Public Utilities Act by changing
 2    Section 16-116.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  Public  Utilities  Act  is  amended by
 6    changing Section 6-116 as follows:
 7        (220 ILCS 5/16-116)
 8        Sec. 16-116. Commerce Commission  oversight  of  electric
 9    utilities  serving  retail  customers  outside  their service
10    areas or providing competitive, non-tariffed services.
11        (a)  An electric utility that has a tariff  on  file  for
12    delivery  services  may,  without  regard  to  any  otherwise
13    applicable tariffs on file, provide electric power and energy
14    to  one  or more retail customers located outside its service
15    area, but only to the extent (i) such retail customer (A)  is
16    eligible  for  delivery  services under any delivery services
17    tariff filed with the Commission by the electric  utility  in
18    whose service area the retail customer is located and (B) has
19    either  elected to take such delivery services or has paid or
20    contracted to pay the charges specified  in  Sections  16-108
21    and  16-114,  or  (ii) if such retail customer is served by a
22    municipal system or electric  cooperative,  the  customer  is
23    eligible for delivery services under the terms and conditions
24    for  such  service  established  by  the  municipal system or
25    electric cooperative serving that customer.
26        (b)  An  electric  utility  may  offer  any   competitive
27    service  to any customer or group of customers without filing
28    contracts  with  or  seeking  approval  of  the   Commission,
29    notwithstanding  any  rule  or  regulation that would require
30    such approval.  The Commission shall not increase or decrease
31    the prices, and may  not  alter  or  add  to  the  terms  and
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 1    conditions for the utility's competitive services, from those
 2    agreed  to  by  the  electric  utility  and  the  customer or
 3    customers.  Non-tariffed, competitive services shall  not  be
 4    subject  to the provisions of the Electric Supplier Act or to
 5    Articles V, VII, VIII or IX of the Act, except to the  extent
 6    that  any  provisions of such Articles are made applicable to
 7    alternative retail electric suppliers  pursuant  to  Sections
 8    16-115 and 16-115A, but shall be subject to the provisions of
 9    subsections  (b)  through (g) of Section 16-115A, and Section
10    16-115B to the same extent such provisions are applicable  to
11    the   services   provided   by  alternative  retail  electric
12    suppliers.
13    (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)

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