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91_HB0048
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Utilities Act by changing
2 Section 16-101.
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 16-101 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/16-101)
8 Sec. 16-101. Short title and applicability.
9 (a) This Article may be cited as the Electric Service
10 Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997. This Article
11 applies and shall apply to electric utilities and alternative
12 retail electric suppliers as defined in this Article. Except
13 to the extent modified or supplemented by the provisions of
14 this Article, or where the context clearly renders such
15 provisions inapplicable, the other Articles of the Public
16 Utilities Act pertaining to public utilities, public utility
17 rates and services and the regulation thereof, are fully and
18 equally applicable to the tariffed services electric
19 utilities provide.
20 (b) The provisions of subsections (a) through (h) of
21 Section 16-111 of this Act shall not be applicable to any
22 electric utility which elects to file biennial rate
23 proceedings before the Commission in the years 1998, 2000 and
24 2002. An electric utility electing this option shall do so
25 by filing a notice of such election with the Commission
26 within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory
27 Act of 1997, or its right to make such election shall be
28 irrevocably waived. An electric utility electing the option
29 specified in this paragraph shall file its rate proceeding
30 with the Commission no later than August 1 of the years 1998,
31 2000, and 2002. The electric utility's filing shall comply
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1 with all requirements of 83 Illinois Administrative Code
2 Parts 255 and 285 as though the electric utility were filing
3 for an increase in its rates, without regard to whether such
4 filing would produce an increase, a decrease or no change in
5 the electric utility's rates and the Commission shall review
6 the electric utility's filing and shall issue its order in
7 accordance with the provisions of Section 9-201 of this Act.
8 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)