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91_HB2633

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to amend the Public Utilities Act in relation to
 2    telecommunications regulation.

 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 Sections 3-105, 3-112, 4-402, 5-109, 13-101, 13-103,
 7    13-202, 13-203, 13-502, 13-504, 13-505.1, 13-505.2, 13-505.3,
 8    13-505.4, 13-505.5, 13-505.6, 13-512, and 13-803 as follows:

 9        (220 ILCS 5/3-105) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 3-105)
10        Sec.  3-105.  Public  utility. "Public utility" means and
11    includes, except where otherwise expressly provided  in  this
12    Section,   every   corporation,  company,  limited  liability
13    company, association, joint  stock  company  or  association,
14    firm,  partnership or individual, their lessees, trustees, or
15    receivers  appointed  by  any  court  whatsoever  that  owns,
16    controls, operates or manages, within this State, directly or
17    indirectly, for public use, any plant, equipment or  property
18    used  or  to  be  used  for or in connection with, or owns or
19    controls any franchise, license, permit or  right  to  engage
20    in:
21             a.  the  production,  storage,  transmission,  sale,
22        delivery or furnishing of heat, cold, power, electricity,
23        water,   or   light,   except   when   used   solely  for
24        communications purposes;
25             b.  the disposal of sewerage; or
26             c.  the conveyance of oil or gas by pipe line.
27        "Public utility" does not include, however:
28             1.  (Blank) public  utilities  that  are  owned  and
29        operated by any political subdivision, public institution
30        of  higher  education  or  municipal  corporation of this
31        State,  or  public  utilities  that  are  owned  by  such
 
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 1        political  subdivision,  public  institution  of   higher
 2        education,  or  municipal corporation and operated by any
 3        of its lessees or operating agents;
 4             2.  water  companies   which   are   purely   mutual
 5        concerns,  having  no  rates or charges for services, but
 6        paying the operating  expenses  by  assessment  upon  the
 7        members of such a company and no other person;
 8             3.  electric  cooperatives  as  defined  in  Section
 9        3-119;
10             4.  residential  natural  gas  cooperatives that are
11        not-for-profit corporations established for  the  purpose
12        of  administering  and operating, on a cooperative basis,
13        the furnishing of  natural  gas  to  residences  for  the
14        benefit of their members who are residential consumers of
15        natural  gas.   For  entities  qualifying  as residential
16        natural gas cooperatives and recognized by  the  Illinois
17        Commerce  Commission  as  such, the State shall guarantee
18        legally binding contracts  entered  into  by  residential
19        natural  gas  cooperatives  for  the  express  purpose of
20        acquiring natural gas supplies for  their  members.   The
21        Illinois  Commerce  Commission  shall establish rules and
22        regulations providing for  such  guarantees.   The  total
23        liability  of  the State in providing all such guarantees
24        shall not at any time exceed $1,000,000,  nor  shall  the
25        State  provide  such a guarantee to a residential natural
26        gas cooperative for more than 3 consecutive years;
27             5.  sewage disposal companies which  provide  sewage
28        disposal  services on a mutual basis without establishing
29        rates or charges for services, but paying  the  operating
30        expenses  by  assessment  upon the members of the company
31        and no others;
32             6.  (Blank);
33             7.  cogeneration facilities, small power  production
34        facilities,  and  other qualifying facilities, as defined
 
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 1        in  the  Public  Utility  Regulatory  Policies  Act   and
 2        regulations  promulgated thereunder, except to the extent
 3        State regulatory jurisdiction and action is  required  or
 4        authorized   by   federal  law,  regulations,  regulatory
 5        decisions or the decisions of federal or State courts  of
 6        competent jurisdiction;
 7             8.  the  ownership  or  operation of a facility that
 8        sells compressed natural gas at retail to the public  for
 9        use  only  as  a  motor  vehicle  fuel and the selling of
10        compressed natural gas at retail to the  public  for  use
11        only as a motor vehicle fuel; and
12             9.  alternative retail electric suppliers as defined
13        in Article XVI.
14    (Source: P.A. 89-42, eff. 1-1-96; 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)

15        (220 ILCS 5/3-112) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 3-112)
16        Sec.  3-112.  "Company,"  when  used in connection with a
17    public utility, includes any  corporation,  company,  limited
18    liability   company,  association,  joint  stock  company  or
19    association, firm, partnership or individual, their  lessees,
20    trustees,  or  receivers  appointed  by any court whatsoever,
21    owning, holding, operating, controlling or  managing  such  a
22    public  utility,  but  not  municipal corporations. "Company"
23    when used other than in connection  with  a  public  utility,
24    includes any corporation, company, limited liability company,
25    association,  joint  stock  company  or association, firm, or
26    partnership, but does not include municipal corporations.
27    (Source: P.A. 88-480.)

28        (220 ILCS 5/4-402) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 4-402)
29        Sec. 4-402.  This amendatory Act of 1985 shall not affect
30    pending actions or proceedings, civil  or  criminal,  in  any
31    court  or  other tribunal brought by or against the People of
32    the State of Illinois or the Illinois Commerce Commission  or
 
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 1    by any other person, firm or corporation under the provisions
 2    of this Act or any other Act establishing or conferring power
 3    on  the  Commission,  nor  abate any causes of action arising
 4    thereunder, but the same may be  instituted,  prosecuted  and
 5    defended  with  the same effect as though this amendatory Act
 6    had  not  been  passed.   Any   investigation,   hearing   or
 7    proceeding,  instituted  or conducted by the Commission prior
 8    to  the  taking  effect  of  this  amendatory  Act  shall  be
 9    conducted and continued  to  a  final  determination  by  the
10    Commission with the same effect as if this amendatory Act had
11    not been passed.
12        All  findings,  orders,  decisions, rules and regulations
13    issued or promulgated by the Commission under this Act or any
14    other Act establishing or conferring power on the Commission,
15    shall continue in force; and the  Commission  hereby  created
16    shall  have all powers with respect to said findings, orders,
17    decisions, rules and regulations  as  though  said  findings,
18    orders,  decisions,  rules  and  regulations  had  been made,
19    issued or promulgated by the Commission under this amendatory
20    Act. Notwithstanding the provisions of  this  Section,  where
21    applicable,  the Commission shall amend its findings, orders,
22    decisions, rules and regulations to conform to the provisions
23    of this Act as soon as practicable after the effective date.
24    (Source: P.A. 84-617.)

25        (220 ILCS 5/5-109) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 5-109)
26        Sec. 5-109. Each public utility in the State  shall  each
27    year   furnish  to  the  Commission,  in  such  form  as  the
28    Commission shall require, annual reports as to all the  items
29    mentioned  in  the preceding sections of this article, and in
30    addition such other items, whether of  a  nature  similar  to
31    those  therein enumerated or otherwise, as the Commission may
32    prescribe. Such annual reports shall contain all the required
33    information for the period to twelve  months  ending  on  the
 
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 1    thirtieth  day  of  June  in  each  year,  or  ending  on the
 2    thirty-first day of December in each year, as the  Commission
 3    may  by  order  prescribe for each class of public utilities,
 4    and shall be filed with  the  Commission  at  its  office  in
 5    Springfield  within  three months after the close of the year
 6    for which the report  is  made.  The  Commission  shall  have
 7    authority  to  require  any  public  utility  to file monthly
 8    reports of earnings and expenses of such utility, and to file
 9    other periodical or special, or both periodical  and  special
10    reports  concerning  any matter about which the Commission is
11    authorized by law to keep itself informed. All reports  shall
12    be under oath.
13        When  any  report is erroneous or defective or appears to
14    the Commission to be erroneous or defective,  the  Commission
15    may  notify  the  public  utility to amend such report within
16    thirty days, and before or  after  the  termination  of  such
17    period  the  Commission  may examine the officers, agents, or
18    employees, and books,  records,  accounts,  vouchers,  plant,
19    equipment  and  property  of such public utility, and correct
20    such items  in  the  report  as  upon  such  examination  the
21    Commission may find defective or erroneous.
22        All reports made to the Commission by any public utility
23    shall  be  treated as confidential and proprietary consistent
24    with Section 4-404 and the contents thereof shall be open  to
25    public   inspection,   unless   otherwise   ordered   by  the
26    Commission. Such reports shall be preserved in the office  of
27    the Commission.
28        Any  public  utility  which  fails  to  make and file any
29    report  called  for  by  the  Commission  within   the   time
30    specified;  or  to  make  specific  answer  to  any  question
31    propounded by the Commission within thirty days from the time
32    it  is  lawfully  required  to  do so, or within such further
33    time, not to exceed ninety days, as may in its discretion  be
34    allowed  by the Commission, shall forfeit up to $100 for each
 
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 1    and every day it may so be in default if the utility collects
 2    less than $100,000 annually in  gross  revenue;  and  if  the
 3    utility  collects $100,000 or more annually in gross revenue,
 4    it shall forfeit $100 per day for each and every day it is in
 5    default.
 6        Any person who wilfully makes any false return or  report
 7    to  the  Commission,  or  to  any member, officer or employee
 8    thereof, and any person who aids or abets such  person  shall
 9    be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
10    (Source: P.A. 84-617.)

11        (220 ILCS 5/13-101) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-101)
12        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
13        Sec.  13-101.   Except  to  the  extent specified in this
14    Section  or  modified  or  supplemented   by   the   specific
15    provisions   of  this  Article,  the  Sections  of  this  Act
16    pertaining to public  utilities,  public  utility  rates  and
17    services,  and  the regulation thereof, are fully and equally
18    applicable to  noncompetitive  telecommunications  rates  and
19    services,  and  the  regulation  thereof,  except  where  the
20    context  clearly  renders  such  provisions  inapplicable and
21    except with respect to Sections 7-101, 7-102,  8-101,  8-401,
22    8-505,  9-224,  and  9-241.  Except to the extent modified or
23    supplemented by the  specific  provisions  of  this  Article,
24    Articles  I  through  V, Sections 8-301, 8-505, 9-221, 9-222,
25    9-222.1, and 9-222.2, 9-250, and 9-252.1, and Articles X  and
26    XI   of   this  Act  are  fully  and  equally  applicable  to
27    competitive telecommunications rates and  services,  and  the
28    regulation thereof.
29    (Source: P.A. 90-38, eff. 6-27-97.)

30        (220 ILCS 5/13-103) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-103)
31        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
32        Sec.  13-103.  Policy.  Consistent with its findings, the
 
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 1    General Assembly declares that it is the policy of the  State
 2    of Illinois that:
 3        (a)  telecommunications  services  should be available to
 4    all Illinois citizens at  just,  reasonable,  and  affordable
 5    rates and that such services should be provided as widely and
 6    economically  as  possible  in  sufficient  variety, quality,
 7    quantity and reliability to satisfy the public interest;
 8        (b)  consistent  with  the  protection  of  consumers  of
 9    telecommunications services  and  the  furtherance  of  other
10    public  interest goals, competition in all telecommunications
11    service  markets  should  be  pursued  as  a  substitute  for
12    regulation in determining the variety, quality and  price  of
13    telecommunications  services and that the economic burdens of
14    regulation  should  be  reduced  to   the   extent   possible
15    consistent  with  the  furtherance  of market competition and
16    protection of the public interest;
17        (c)  all necessary and appropriate modifications to State
18    regulation of telecommunications carriers and services should
19    be  implemented  without  unnecessary   disruption   to   the
20    telecommunications  infrastructure  system or to consumers of
21    telecommunications services and  that  it  is  necessary  and
22    appropriate  to  establish  rules  to  encourage  and  ensure
23    orderly  transitions  in  the  development of markets for all
24    telecommunications services;
25        (d)  the consumers  of  telecommunications  services  and
26    facilities  provided  by  persons  or  companies  subject  to
27    regulation  pursuant  to  this  Act  and  Article  should  be
28    required  to pay only reasonable and non-discriminatory rates
29    or charges and that in no case should rates  or  charges  for
30    non-competitive  telecommunications  services  be  below  the
31    long-run   service  incremental  cost  of  such  services  in
32    aggregate include  any  portion  of  the  cost  of  providing
33    competitive   telecommunications   services,  as  defined  in
34    Section 13-209, or the cost of any nonregulated activities;
 
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 1        (e)  the regulatory policies and procedures  provided  in
 2    this  Article  are established in recognition of the changing
 3    nature  of  the  telecommunications  industry  and  therefore
 4    should be subject to systematic legislative review to  ensure
 5    that  the  public  benefits  intended  to  result  from  such
 6    policies and procedures are fully realized; and
 7        (f)  development  of  and  prudent investment in advanced
 8    telecommunications services and networks that foster economic
 9    development of the State should  be  encouraged  through  the
10    implementation  and  enforcement  of  policies  that  promote
11    effective and sustained competition in all telecommunications
12    service markets and that apply regulation evenhandedly to all
13    certified telecommunications providers.
14    (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97.)

15        (220 ILCS 5/13-202) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-202)
16        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
17        Sec.  13-202.   "Telecommunications  carrier"  means  and
18    includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock
19    company  or  association,  firm,  partnership  or individual,
20    their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by  any  court
21    whatsoever  that  owns, controls, operates or manages, within
22    this State, directly  or  indirectly,  for  public  use,  any
23    plant,  equipment  or  property  used or to be used for or in
24    connection with, or owns or controls any franchise,  license,
25    permit   or   right   to   engage   in   the   provision  of,
26    telecommunications services between points within  the  State
27    which  are specified by the user.  Telecommunications carrier
28    does not include, however:
29        (a)  (Blank) telecommunications carriers that  are  owned
30    and  operated by any political subdivision, public or private
31    institution of higher education or municipal  corporation  of
32    this State, for their own use, or telecommunications carriers
33    that  are  owned  by  such  political  subdivision, public or
 
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 1    private  institution  of  higher  education,   or   municipal
 2    corporation  and  operated by any of its lessees or operating
 3    agents, for their own use;
 4        (b)  telecommunications carriers which are purely  mutual
 5    concerns, having no rates or charges for services, but paying
 6    the operating expenses by assessment upon the members of such
 7    a  company  and no other person but does include telephone or
 8    telecommunications cooperatives as defined in Section 13-212;
 9        (c)  a    company    or     person     which     provides
10    telecommunications   services   solely   to  itself  and  its
11    affiliates or members or between points in the same building,
12     or between closely  located  buildings,  affiliated  through
13    substantial common ownership, control or development; or
14        (d)  a  company  or  person  engaged  in  the delivery of
15    community  antenna  television  services  as   described   in
16    subdivision (c) of Section 13-203, except with respect to the
17    provision  of  telecommunications services by that company or
18    person.
19    (Source: P.A. 87-856.)

20        (220 ILCS 5/13-203) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-203)
21        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
22        Sec. 13-203.  Telecommunications service.
23        "Telecommunications  service"  means  the  provision   or
24    offering  for  rent,  sale or lease, or in exchange for other
25    value received, of the transmittal of information,  by  means
26    of  electromagnetic,  including  light,  transmission with or
27    without benefit of any closed transmission medium,  including
28    all  instrumentalities,  facilities,  apparatus, and services
29    (including the collection,  storage,  forwarding,  switching,
30    and  delivery  of  such  information)  used  to  provide such
31    transmission and also  includes  access  and  interconnection
32    arrangements and services.
33        "Telecommunications service" does not include, however:
 
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 1             (a)  the rent, sale, or lease, or exchange for other
 2        value received, of customer premises equipment except for
 3        customer  premises  equipment  owned  or  provided  by  a
 4        telecommunications  carrier  and  used  for answering 911
 5        calls,  and  except  for  customer   premises   equipment
 6        provided under Section 13-703;
 7             (b)  telephone   or   telecommunications   answering
 8        services,   paging  services,  and  physical  pickup  and
 9        delivery  incidental  to  the  provision  of  information
10        transmitted  through  electromagnetic,  including  light,
11        transmission;
12             (c)  community antenna television service  which  is
13        operated to perform for hire the service of receiving and
14        distributing  video  and  audio  program signals by wire,
15        cable or  other  means  to  members  of  the  public  who
16        subscribe  to  such  service,  to  the  extent  that such
17        service is utilized solely for the  one-way  distribution
18        of   such   entertainment  services  with  no  more  than
19        incidental  subscriber  interaction  required   for   the
20        selection of such entertainment service;.
21             (d)  local  exchange  or  interexchange private line
22        services;
23             (e)  advanced telecommunications service having  the
24        capability  of  supporting 2 way broadband communications
25        at a bandwidth of 200 kilobits per second or greater;
26             (f)  internet and internet access  where  "internet"
27        refers to the global information system that is logically
28        linked  together by a globally unique address space based
29        on   the   Internet   Protocol    or    its    subsequent
30        extensions/follow-ons    and    is    able   to   support
31        communications    using    the    Transmission    Control
32        Protocol/Internet  Protocol  suite  or   its   subsequent
33        extensions/follow-ons,      and/or     other     Internet
34        Protocol-compatible protocols;
 
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 1             (g)  the  provision  of   white   or   yellow   page
 2        directories and listings, such that no revenues from such
 3        services  shall  be  attributed to any telecommunications
 4        service for any purpose whatsoever; and
 5             (h)  cellular radio service.
 6        The Commission may, by rulemaking,  exclude  (1)  private
 7    line service which is not directly or indirectly used for the
 8    origination  or  termination  of  switched telecommunications
 9    service,  (2)  cellular   radio   service,   (3)   high-speed
10    point-to-point data transmission at or above 9.6 kilobits, or
11    (4)  the provision of telecommunications service by a company
12    or person otherwise  subject  to  Section  13-202  (c)  to  a
13    telecommunications   carrier,  which  is  incidental  to  the
14    provision of service subject  to  Section  13-202  (c),  from
15    active  regulatory  oversight  to  the extent it finds, after
16    notice, hearing and comment that such exclusion is consistent
17    with the public interest and the  purposes  and  policies  of
18    this  Article. To the extent that the Commission has excluded
19    cellular radio service from active regulatory  oversight  for
20    any provider of cellular radio service in this State pursuant
21    to  this  Section,  the  Commission  shall  exclude all other
22    providers of cellular radio service in the State from  active
23    regulatory   oversight   without   an  additional  rulemaking
24    proceeding where there are 2 or more certified  providers  of
25    cellular radio service in a geographic area.
26    (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97.)

27        (220 ILCS 5/13-502) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-502)
28        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
29        Sec. 13-502.  Classification of services.
30        (a)  All  telecommunications services offered or provided
31    under  tariff  by  telecommunications   carriers   shall   be
32    classified   as  either  competitive  or  noncompetitive.   A
33    telecommunications  carrier  may  offer  or  provide   either
 
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 1    competitive or noncompetitive telecommunications services, or
 2    both,  subject  to  proper certification and other applicable
 3    provisions of  this  Article.   Any  tariff  filed  with  the
 4    Commission  as  required  by  Section  13-501  shall indicate
 5    whether the service to be offered or provided is  competitive
 6    or noncompetitive.
 7        (b)  A  service  shall  be classified as competitive only
 8    if, and only to the extent that, for some identifiable  class
 9    or  group of customers in an exchange, group of exchanges, or
10    some other clearly defined geographical area,  such  service,
11    or  its  functional  equivalent,  or a substitute service, is
12    reasonably available from more than one provider, whether  or
13    not any such provider is a telecommunications carrier subject
14    to regulation under this Act. All telecommunications services
15    not properly classified as competitive shall be classified as
16    noncompetitive.  The  Commission  shall  have  the  power  to
17    investigate   the   propriety  of  any  classification  of  a
18    telecommunications  service  on  its  own  motion  and  shall
19    investigate upon complaint.  In any hearing or investigation,
20    the burden of proof as to the proper  classification  of  any
21    service   shall  rest  upon  the  telecommunications  carrier
22    providing  the  service.   After  notice  and  hearing,   the
23    Commission  shall  order  the  proper  classification  of any
24    service in whole or in part.  The Commission shall  make  its
25    determination  and  issue  its  final order no later than 180
26    days  from  the  date  such  hearing  or   investigation   is
27    initiated.  If  the  Commission  enters  into  a hearing upon
28    complaint and if the  Commission  fails  to  issue  an  order
29    within  that  period,  the  complaint shall be deemed granted
30    unless   the   Commission,   the   complainant,    and    the
31    telecommunications  carrier  providing  the  service agree to
32    extend the time period.  In no event shall evidence of market
33    share or other metrics-based  tests  be  deemed  material  or
34    relevant to the proper classification of a service.
 
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 1        (c)  No   tariff  classifying  a  new  telecommunications
 2    service  as  competitive  or   reclassifying   a   previously
 3    noncompetitive  telecommunications  service  as  competitive,
 4    which  is  filed  by  a telecommunications carrier which also
 5    offers or provides noncompetitive telecommunications service,
 6    shall be effective unless and until  such  telecommunications
 7    carrier  offering  or  providing,  or  seeking  to  offer  or
 8    provide, such proposed competitive service prepares and files
 9    a  study  of the long-run service incremental cost underlying
10    such service and demonstrates that  the  tariffed  rates  and
11    charges  for  the  service and any relevant group of services
12    that includes the proposed competitive service and for  which
13    resources are used in common solely by that group of services
14    are  not  less  than the long-run service incremental cost of
15    providing the service and each relevant  group  of  services.
16    Such  study  shall  be  given  proprietary  treatment  by the
17    Commission at the  request  of  such  carrier  if  any  other
18    provider   of   the   competitive   service,  its  functional
19    equivalent, or a substitute service in the geographical  area
20    described  by  the  proposed tariff has not filed, or has not
21    been required to file, such a study.
22        (d)  In the event any telecommunications service has been
23    classified and filed as competitive by the telecommunications
24    carrier, and has been offered or provided on such basis,  and
25    the  Commission  subsequently  determines after investigation
26    that such classification improperly included  services  which
27    were  in  fact  noncompetitive, the Commission shall have the
28    power to determine and order refunds  to  customers  for  any
29    overcharges   which  may  have  resulted  from  the  improper
30    classification, or to order such other remedies  provided  to
31    it under this Act, or to seek an appropriate remedy or relief
32    in a court of competent jurisdiction.
33        (e)    If  no  hearing  or  investigation  regarding  the
34    propriety    of    a    competitive   classification   of   a
 
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 1    telecommunications service is initiated within 180 days after
 2    a telecommunications carrier  files  a  tariff  listing  such
 3    telecommunications  service  as  competitive,  no  refunds to
 4    customers for  any  overcharges  which  may  result  from  an
 5    improper  classification shall be ordered for the period from
 6    the time the telecommunications  carrier  filed  such  tariff
 7    listing  the  service  as  competitive  up  to  the  time  an
 8    investigation  of  the service classification is initiated by
 9    the Commission's own motion or the  filing  of  a  complaint.
10    Where  a  hearing or an investigation regarding the propriety
11    of a telecommunications service classification as competitive
12    is initiated after 180 days from the filing  of  the  tariff,
13    the  period  subject  to  refund  for improper classification
14    shall begin on the date  such  investigation  or  hearing  is
15    initiated   by  the  filing  of  a  Commission  motion  or  a
16    complaint.
17    (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97.)

18        (220 ILCS 5/13-504) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-504)
19        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
20        Sec. 13-504.  Application  of  ratemaking  provisions  of
21    Article IX.
22        (a)  Except   where  the  context  clearly  renders  such
23    provisions inapplicable, the ratemaking provisions of Article
24    IX of this Act relating to public  utilities  are  fully  and
25    equally   applicable  to  the  rates,  charges,  tariffs  and
26    classifications for the offer or provision of  noncompetitive
27    telecommunications    services.   However,   the   ratemaking
28    provisions do not apply to any proposed change  in  rates  or
29    charges,  any proposed change in any classification or tariff
30    resulting  in  a  change  in  rates  or   charges,   or   the
31    establishment  of  new  services  and  rates  therefor  for a
32    noncompetitive  local  exchange  telecommunications   service
33    offered  or  provided  by a local exchange telecommunications
 
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 1    carrier with no more than  35,000  subscriber  access  lines.
 2    Proposed  changes  in  rates,  charges,  classifications,  or
 3    tariffs  meeting  these  criteria shall be permitted upon the
 4    filing of the proposed tariff  and  30  days  notice  to  the
 5    Commission  and  all  potentially  affected  customers.   The
 6    proposed  changes  shall  not  be  subject to suspension. The
 7    Commission shall investigate whether any proposed  change  is
 8    just and reasonable only if a telecommunications carrier that
 9    is  a  customer  of  the  local  exchange  telecommunications
10    carrier  or  10%  of  the  potentially  affected  access line
11    subscribers of the local exchange telecommunications  carrier
12    shall   file   a   petition   or   complaint   requesting  an
13    investigation   of   the   proposed   changes.    When    the
14    telecommunications carrier or 10% of the potentially affected
15    access    line    subscribers    of    a    local    exchange
16    telecommunications  carrier  file a complaint, the Commission
17    shall, after notice and hearing, have the power and  duty  to
18    establish  the rates, charges, classifications, or tariffs it
19    finds to be just and reasonable.
20        (b)  Subsection  (c)  of  Section  13-502  and   Sections
21    13-505.1,  13-505.4,  13-505.6, and 13-507 of this Article do
22    not apply to rates or charges or proposed changes in rates or
23    charges for applicable competitive or interexchange  services
24    when    offered    or    provided   by   a   local   exchange
25    telecommunications  carrier  with   no   more   than   35,000
26    subscriber  access  lines.   In  addition,  Sections  13-514,
27    13-515,   and  13-516  do  not  apply  to  telecommunications
28    carriers with no more than 35,000  subscriber  access  lines.
29    The  Commission  may require telecommunications carriers with
30    no more  than  35,000  subscriber  access  lines  to  furnish
31    information   that  the  Commission  deems  necessary  for  a
32    determination that rates  and  charges  for  any  competitive
33    telecommunications service are just and reasonable.
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 1    no  more  than  35,000  access  lines,  the  Commission shall
 2    consider  and  adjust,  as  appropriate,  a  local   exchange
 3    telecommunications   carrier's  depreciation  rates  only  in
 4    ratemaking proceedings.
 5        (d)  Article VI and Sections 7-101 and 7-102  of  Article
 6    VII  of  this  Act  pertaining  to  public  utilities, public
 7    utility rates and services, and the  regulation  thereof  are
 8    not  applicable  to local exchange telecommunication carriers
 9    with no more than 35,000 subscriber access lines.
10    (Source: P.A. 89-139, eff. 1-1-96; 90-185, eff. 7-23-97.)

11        (220 ILCS 5/13-505.1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.1)
12        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
13        Sec. 13-505.1. Imputation.
14        (a)  This Section applies only  to  a  telecommunications
15    carrier  that  provides  both  competitive and noncompetitive
16    services.  If a carrier provides noncompetitive  services  or
17    noncompetitive  service  elements to other telecommunications
18    carriers  for  the  provision  by  the  other   carriers   of
19    competitive  services,  switched  interexchange  services, or
20    interexchange private line services or to other persons  with
21    which  the  telecommunications  carrier also competes for the
22    provision by those other persons of information  or  enhanced
23    telecommunications   services,  as  defined  by  the  Federal
24    Communications  Commission,   then   the   telecommunications
25    carrier  shall satisfy an imputation test for each of its own
26    competitive services,  switched  interexchange  services,  or
27    interexchange private line services, that utilize the same or
28    functionally    equivalent    noncompetitive    services   or
29    noncompetitive  service  elements.   The   purpose   of   the
30    imputation test is to determine whether the aggregate revenue
31    for  each  service  exceeds  the  costs,  as  defined in this
32    Section,  to  be  imputed  for  each  service  based  on  the
33    telecommunications carrier's own routing  arrangements.   The
 
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 1    portion  of  a  service consisting of residence untimed calls
 2    shall be excluded from  the  imputation  test.   The  imputed
 3    costs of a service for purposes of this test shall be defined
 4    as the sum of:
 5             (1)  specifically  tariffed  premium  rates  for the
 6        noncompetitive   services   or   noncompetitive   service
 7        elements,  or  their  functional  equivalent,  that   are
 8        utilized to provide the service;
 9             (2)  the   long-run  service  incremental  costs  of
10        facilities and functionalities that are utilized but  not
11        specifically tariffed; and
12             (3)  any   other   identifiable,   long-run  service
13        incremental costs associated with the  provision  of  the
14        service.
15        (b)  (Blank).    Notwithstanding    the   provisions   of
16    subsection (a), if a telecommunications carrier permits other
17    telecommunications carriers to purchase interexchange private
18    line services, except those provided under contract or  other
19    form  of  agreement  pursuant  to  the  provisions of Section
20    13-509, under the same tariffed rates, terms, and  conditions
21    as  any  other customer, then such interexchange private line
22    services provided by the telecommunications carrier shall not
23    be subject to the imputation test required in this Section.
24    (Source: P.A. 87-856.)

25        (220 ILCS 5/13-505.2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.2)
26        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
27        Sec. 13-505.2.  Nondiscrimination  in  the  provision  of
28    telecommunications      noncompetitive      services.       A
29    telecommunications  carrier  that  offers both noncompetitive
30    and competitive services shall offer  telecommunications  the
31    noncompetitive  services  under  the  same  rates, terms, and
32    conditions  without  unreasonable   discrimination   to   all
33    persons,   including   all  telecommunications  carriers  and
 
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 1    competitors.  Unreasonable discrimination shall not be deemed
 2    to  include  differing  terms  and  conditions  that  are  in
 3    response   to   competition   in    the    telecommunications
 4    marketplace.   A  telecommunications  carrier  that  offers a
 5    noncompetitive service together with any optional feature  or
 6    functionality shall offer the noncompetitive service together
 7    with  each  optional  feature or functionality under the same
 8    rates,   terms,   and   conditions    without    unreasonable
 9    discrimination     to     all    persons,    including    all
10    telecommunications carriers and competitors.
11    (Source: P.A. 87-856.)

12        (220 ILCS 5/13-505.3) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.3)
13        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
14        Sec.    13-505.3.     Services     for     resale.      A
15    telecommunications  carrier  that  offers both noncompetitive
16    and  competitive  services  shall  offer  all  noncompetitive
17    services, together with each applicable optional  feature  or
18    functionality, subject to resale; however, the Commission may
19    determine   under   Article  IX  of  this  Act  that  certain
20    noncompetitive  services,  together  with   each   applicable
21    optional  feature  or  functionality,  that  are  offered  to
22    residence customers under different rates, charges, terms, or
23    conditions  than  to other customers should not be subject to
24    resale  under  the  rates,  charges,  terms,  or   conditions
25    available only to residence customers.
26    (Source: P.A. 87-856.)

27        (220 ILCS 5/13-505.4) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.4)
28        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
29        Sec. 13-505.4. Provision of noncompetitive services.
30        (a)  A telecommunications carrier that offers or provides
31    a   noncompetitive  service,  service  element,  feature,  or
32    functionality ("covered service") on a separate,  stand-alone
 
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 1    basis  to  any  customer  shall provide that covered service,
 2    service element, feature, or functionality pursuant to tariff
 3    to all persons, including all telecommunications carriers and
 4    competitors, in  accordance   with  the  provisions  of  this
 5    Article  and  provided  that  where  such  covered service is
 6    requested by or on behalf of a carrier  or  competitor,  such
 7    covered  service  is necessary and its failure to be provided
 8    would substantially impair the ability of  the  requestor  to
 9    provide a telecommunications service.
10        (b)  A telecommunications carrier that offers or provides
11    a   noncompetitive  service,  service  element,  feature,  or
12    functionality to any customer  as  part  of  an  offering  of
13    competitive  services  pursuant  to  tariff or contract shall
14    publicly  disclose  the  offering  or  provisioning  of   the
15    noncompetitive   service,   service   element,   feature,  or
16    functionality by filing with the Commission information  that
17    generally  describes  the  offering  or provisioning and that
18    shows the rates, terms, and conditions of the  noncompetitive
19    service,  service  element,  feature,  or functionality.  The
20    information shall be filed with the  Commission  concurrently
21    with  the  filing  of  the  tariff  or  not more than 10 days
22    following the customer's acceptance  of  the  offering  in  a
23    contract.
24    (Source: P.A. 87-856.)

25        (220 ILCS 5/13-505.5) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.5)
26        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
27        Sec.  13-505.5. Requests for new noncompetitive services.
28    Any  party  may  petition  the  Commission  to  request   the
29    provision  of a noncompetitive service not currently provided
30    by a telecommunications local  exchange  carrier  within  its
31    service  territory.  The Commission shall grant the petition,
32    if provided that it can be demonstrated that the provisioning
33    of the requested  service  is  technically  and  economically
 
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 1    practicable  considering  demand  for  the  service, that the
 2    service is necessary, that failure  to  provide  the  service
 3    would   substantially  impair  the  petitioner's  ability  to
 4    provide a telecommunication service,  and  absent  a  finding
 5    that  provision  of  the  service is otherwise and failure to
 6    provide the service would be contrary to the public interest.
 7    The Commission shall render  its  decision  within  180  days
 8    after the filing of the petition unless extension of the time
 9    period  is  agreed  to  by all the parties to the proceeding.
10    The petitioner shall at all times during the proceeding  have
11    the burden of proof.
12    (Source: P.A. 87-856.)

13        (220 ILCS 5/13-505.6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.6)
14        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
15        Sec. 13-505.6.  Unbundling of noncompetitive services.  A
16    telecommunications  carrier that provides both noncompetitive
17    and competitive telecommunications services shall provide all
18    noncompetitive telecommunications services  on  an  unbundled
19    basis   to   the   same  extent  the  Federal  Communications
20    Commission  requires  that  carrier  to  unbundle  the   same
21    services  provided  under  its  jurisdiction.   The  Illinois
22    Commerce  Commission  may  require  additional  unbundling of
23    noncompetitive telecommunications services over which it  has
24    jurisdiction  based  on  a  determination,  after  notice and
25    hearing,  that  additional  unbundling  is  necessary,   that
26    failure  to  provide it will substantially impair the ability
27    of  another   telecommunications   carrier   to   provide   a
28    telecommunications  service,  and  that such unbundling is in
29    the public interest and is consistent with the  policy  goals
30    and other provisions of this Act.
31    (Source: P.A. 87-856.)

32        (220 ILCS 5/13-512)
 
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 1        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
 2        Sec.  13-512.  Rules;  review.  The Commission shall have
 3    general rulemaking  authority  to  make  rules  necessary  to
 4    enforce this Article.  However, not later than 270 days after
 5    the  effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, and every
 6    2 years thereafter, the Commission  shall  review  all  rules
 7    issued  under  this  Article  that apply to the operations or
 8    activities of any telecommunications carriers  carrier.   The
 9    Commission  shall, after notice and hearing, repeal or modify
10    any rule it determines to be no longer in the public interest
11    as the result of the reasonable availability  of  competitive
12    telecommunications  services.   As  part  of  the review, the
13    Commission shall ensure  that  all  rules  not  repealed  are
14    equally  applicable  to  all  telecommunications carriers and
15    that any waiver of a rule  as  to  any  carrier  shall  apply
16    equally  to all other carriers.  The Commission shall provide
17    a report to the Legislature after each 2-year  review  period
18    summarizing  the review process undertaken and certifying the
19    equal  application  of  its   rules   to   telecommunications
20    carriers.
21    (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97.)

22        (220 ILCS 5/13-803) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-803)
23        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
24        Sec.  13-803.  Repealer.  The  provisions of this Article
25    XIII are repealed effective July 1, 2005 2001.
26    (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97.)

27        (220 ILCS 5/13-507 rep.)
28        (220 ILCS 5/13-601 rep.)
29        Section 10.  The  Public  Utilities  Act  is  amended  by
30    repealing Sections 13-507 and 13-601.

31        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 
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 1                                INDEX
 2               Statutes amended in order of appearance
 3    220 ILCS 5/3-105          from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 3-105
 4    220 ILCS 5/3-112          from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 3-112
 5    220 ILCS 5/4-402          from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 4-402
 6    220 ILCS 5/5-109          from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 5-109
 7    220 ILCS 5/13-101         from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-101
 8    220 ILCS 5/13-103         from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-103
 9    220 ILCS 5/13-202         from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-202
10    220 ILCS 5/13-203         from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-203
11    220 ILCS 5/13-502         from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-502
12    220 ILCS 5/13-504         from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-504
13    220 ILCS 5/13-505.1       from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.1
14    220 ILCS 5/13-505.2       from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.2
15    220 ILCS 5/13-505.3       from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.3
16    220 ILCS 5/13-505.4       from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.4
17    220 ILCS 5/13-505.5       from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.5
18    220 ILCS 5/13-505.6       from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505.6
19    220 ILCS 5/13-512
20    220 ILCS 5/13-803         from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-803
21    220 ILCS 5/13-507 rep.
22    220 ILCS 5/13-601 rep.

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