101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB3507

 

Introduced , by Rep. John Connor

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
220 ILCS 50/2.2  from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.2

    Amends the Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. Includes, in the definition of "underground utility facilities", wires, ducts, fiber optic cable, conduits, pipes, sewers, and cables and their appurtenances installed underground for information technology infrastructure, equipment, systems, software, networks, and processes used to create, send, receive, and store electronic or digital information, including computer systems, telecommunication services and systems, and future technologies.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Underground Utility Facilities
5Damage Prevention Act is amended by changing Section 2.2 as
6follows:
 
7    (220 ILCS 50/2.2)  (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.2)
8    Sec. 2.2. Underground utility facilities. "Underground
9utility facilities" or "facilities" means and includes wires,
10ducts, fiber optic cable, conduits, pipes, sewers, and cables
11and their connected appurtenances installed beneath the
12surface of the ground by:
13        (1) a public utility as defined in the Public Utilities
14    Act;
15        (2) a municipally owned or mutually owned utility
16    providing a similar utility service;
17        (3) a pipeline entity transporting gases, crude oil,
18    petroleum products, or other hydrocarbon materials within
19    the State;
20        (4) a telecommunications carrier as defined in the
21    Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985, or by a
22    company described in Section 1 of the Telephone Company
23    Act;

 

 

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1        (5) a community antenna television system, as defined
2    in the Illinois Municipal Code or the Counties Code;
3        (6) a holder, as that term is defined in the Cable and
4    Video Competition Law of 2007;
5        (7) any other entity owning or operating underground
6    facilities that transport generated electrical power to
7    other utility owners or operators or transport generated
8    electrical power within the internal electric grid of a
9    wind turbine generation farm; and
10        (8) an electric cooperative as defined in the Public
11    Utilities Act.
12    "Underground utility facilities" also means wires, ducts,
13fiber optic cable, conduits, pipes, sewers, and cables and
14their appurtenances installed beneath the surface of the ground
15for information technology infrastructure, equipment, systems,
16software, networks, and processes used to create, send,
17receive, and store electronic or digital information,
18including, without limitation, computer systems,
19telecommunication services and systems, and future
20technologies (such as sensors and balanced private hybrid or
21public cloud posture) that change or supplant those in effect
22on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st
23General Assembly.
24(Source: P.A. 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)