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91_HB3192eng HB3192 Engrossed LRB9111248MWpc 1 AN ACT to amend the Telecommunications Municipal 2 Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act by changing Section 20. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Telecommunications Municipal 6 Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act is amended by changing 7 Section 20 as follows: 8 (35 ILCS 635/20) 9 Sec. 20. Municipal telecommunications infrastructure 10 maintenance fee. 11 (a) A municipality may impose a municipal infrastructure 12 maintenance fee upon telecommunications retailers in an 13 amount specified in subsection (b). On and after the 14 effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, a certified 15 copy of an ordinance or resolution imposing a fee under this 16 Section shall be filed with the Department of Revenue within 17 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act or 18 the effective date of the ordinance or resolution imposing 19 such fee, whichever is later. Failure to file a certified 20 copy of the ordinance or resolution imposing a fee under this 21 Section shall have no effect on the validity of the ordinance 22 or resolution. The Department of Revenue shall create and 23 maintain a list of all ordinances and resolutions filed 24 pursuant to this Section and make that list, as well as 25 copies of the ordinances and resolutions, available to the 26 public for a reasonable fee. 27 (b) The amount of the municipal infrastructure 28 maintenance fee imposed upon a telecommunications retailer 29 under this Section shall not exceed: (i) in a municipality 30 with a population of more than 500,000, 2.0% of all gross 31 charges charged by the telecommunications retailer to service HB3192 Engrossed -2- LRB9111248MWpc 1 addresses in the municipality for telecommunications 2 originating or received in the municipality; and (ii) in a 3 municipality with a population of 500,000 or less, 1.0% of 4 all gross charges charged by the telecommunications retailer 5 to service addresses in the municipality for 6 telecommunications originating or received in the 7 municipality. If imposed, the municipal telecommunications 8 infrastructure fee must be in 1/4% increments. However, the 9 fee shall not be imposed in any case in which the imposition 10 of the fee would violate the Constitution or statutes of the 11 United States. 12 (c) The municipal telecommunications infrastructure fee 13 authorized by this Section shall be collected, enforced, and 14 administered as set forth in subsection (c) of Section 25 of 15 this Act. 16 (Source: P.A. 90-154, eff. 1-1-98; 90-562, eff. 12-16-97.)