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SB1084 - 104th General Assembly
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 16-101 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (220 ILCS 5/16-101) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 16-101. Short title and applicability. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) This Article may be cited as the the Electric Service | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 and shall apply to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | as defined in this Article. Except to the extent modified or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | supplemented by the provisions of this Article, or where the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | context clearly renders such provisions inapplicable, the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | other Articles of the Public Utilities Act pertaining to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | public utilities, public utility rates and services and the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | regulation thereof, are fully and equally applicable to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | tariffed services electric utilities provide. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | (b) The provisions of subsections (a) through (h) of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Section 16-111 of this Act shall not be applicable to any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | electric utility which elects to file biennial rate | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | proceedings before the Commission in the years 1998, 2000 and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | 2002. An electric utility electing this option shall do so by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | filing a notice of such election with the Commission within 60 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, | ||||||
| 2 | or its right to make such election shall be irrevocably | ||||||
| 3 | waived. An electric utility electing the option specified in | ||||||
| 4 | this paragraph shall file its rate proceeding with the | ||||||
| 5 | Commission no later than August 1 of the years 1998, 2000, and | ||||||
| 6 | 2002. The electric utility's filing shall comply with all | ||||||
| 7 | requirements of 83 Illinois Administrative Code Parts 255 and | ||||||
| 8 | 285 as though the electric utility were filing for an increase | ||||||
| 9 | in its rates, without regard to whether such filing would | ||||||
| 10 | produce an increase, a decrease or no change in the electric | ||||||
| 11 | utility's rates and the Commission shall review the electric | ||||||
| 12 | utility's filing and shall issue its order in accordance with | ||||||
| 13 | the provisions of Section 9-201 of this Act. | ||||||
| 14 | (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.) | ||||||