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91_HB1497

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the  Public  Utilities  Act  by  changing
 2    Section 13-209 and adding Section 13-216.

 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 13-209 and adding Section 13-216 as follows:

 7        (220 ILCS 5/13-209) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-209)
 8        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
 9        Sec.  13-209.   "Competitive  Telecommunications Service"
10    means a telecommunications service, its functional equivalent
11    or a substitute service, which, for some  identifiable  class
12    or  group of customers in an exchange, group of exchanges, or
13    some other clearly defined geographical area,  is  reasonably
14    available  from  more  than one provider, whether or not such
15    provider  is  a   telecommunications   carrier   subject   to
16    regulation  under this Act.  A telecommunications service may
17    be competitive for the entire state, some  geographical  area
18    therein,  including an exchange or set of exchanges, or for a
19    specific customer or class or group of customers, but only to
20    the   extent   consistent   with   this   definition.     All
21    telecommunications  services  offered  by carriers other than
22    incumbent   local   exchange   carriers    are    competitive
23    telecommunications services.
24    (Source: P.A. 84-1063.)

25        (220 ILCS 5/13-216 new)
26        Sec.    13-216.  Incumbent    local   exchange   carrier.
27    "Incumbent local exchange carrier"  means  a  local  exchange
28    telecommunications carrier as defined by Section 251(h)(1) of
29    the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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