093_HB2839

 
                                     LRB093 08249 JLS 11712 b

 1        AN ACT concerning utilities.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Underground  Utility  Facilities
 5    Damage  Prevention  Act is amended by changing Section 2.2 as
 6    follows:

 7        (220 ILCS 50/2.2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.2)
 8        Sec. 2.2.  Underground utility facilities.   "Underground
 9    utility facilities" or "facilities" means and includes wires,
10    ducts, fiber optic cable, conduits, pipes, sewers, and cables
11    and  their  connected  appurtenances  installed  beneath  the
12    surface  of  the ground by a public utility (as is defined in
13    the Illinois Public Utilities  Act,  as  amended),  or  by  a
14    municipally  owned  or  mutually  owned  utility  providing a
15    similar utility service, except an  electric  cooperative  as
16    defined  in the Illinois Public Utilities Act, as amended, or
17    by a pipeline entity transporting gases, crude oil, petroleum
18    products, or other hydrocarbon materials within the State, or
19    by a telecommunications carrier as defined in  the  Universal
20    Telephone  Service  Protection  Law  of 1985, or by a company
21    described in Section 1 of the Telephone Company Act  "An  Act
22    relating  to  the  powers,  duties  and property of telephone
23    companies", approved May  16,  1903,  as  amended,  or  by  a
24    community  antenna television system, hereinafter referred to
25    as "CATS", as defined in  the  Illinois  Municipal  Code,  as
26    amended.
27    (Source: P.A. 92-179, eff. 7-1-02.)

28        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
29    becoming law.