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• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-101
  Duties of public utilities; nondiscrimination. A public utility shall furnish, provide, and maintain such service instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities as shall promote the safety,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-101.5
  Use of credit information of prospective and existing customers. A public utility may not deny, cancel, or nonrenew utility service solely on the basis of...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-102
  Audit or investigation. The Commission is authorized to conduct or order a management audit or investigation of any public utility or part thereof. The...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-103
  Energy efficiency and demand-response measures.

  (a) It is the policy of the State that electric utilities are required to use cost-effective energy efficiency and demand-response...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-103A
  Energy efficiency analysis. Beginning in 2013, an electric utility subject to the requirements of Section 8-103 of this Act shall include in its energy efficiency...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-104
  Natural gas energy efficiency programs.

  (a) It is the policy of the State that natural gas utilities and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-105
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 96-33, eff. 7-10-09. Repealed internally, eff. 12-31-11.)

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-201
  It is the policy of this State that no person should be denied essential utility service during the winter months due to financial inability...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-201.5
  Military personnel on active duty; no stoppage of gas or electricity; arrearage.

  (a) In this Section:

  "Active duty" means active duty pursuant to an executive...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-202
  Any public utility, or two or more public utilities, which furnishes electricity or gas for space heating shall, during the calendar months of November,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-203
  No public utility company which furnishes gas or electricity for space heating shall, during the calendar months of October, November, December, January, February and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-204
  Every public utility company which furnishes electricity to residential customers shall (a) maintain a registry of those individuals who are dependent on an electrically...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-205
  (a) Termination of gas and electric utility service to all residential users, including all tenants of mastermetered apartment buildings, for nonpayment of bills, where gas...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-206
  Winter termination for nonpayment.

  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no electric or gas public utility shall disconnect service to any residential...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-207
  Any former residential customer whose gas or electric service was used to provide or control the primary source of space heating in the dwelling...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-208
  (a) The General Assembly finds that the availability of adequate, affordable housing bears a close relationship to efficient and reliable delivery of utility services...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-301
  The Commission shall have power to ascertain, determine and fix for each kind of public utility suitable and convenient standard commercial units of service,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-302
  The Commission shall require that every public utility furnishing natural or artificial gas, electricity or water to the public, where the individual consumption is...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-303
  Where, within 30 days of receipt of a utility bill, a customer alleges that the level of consumption reflected in his utility bill is...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-304
  The Commission shall conduct a comprehensive study of the estimated billing practices and policies of each major public utility providing gas or electric service....
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-305
  Braille billing statements. Upon the request of a customer, a public utility that serves at least 50,000 customers shall furnish billing statements in braille....
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-306
  Special provisions relating to water and sewer utilities.

  (a) No later than 120 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-401
  Every public utility subject to this Act shall provide service and facilities which are in all respects adequate, efficient, reliable and environmentally safe and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-402
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96. Repealed by P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-402.1
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 87-173. Repealed by P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-403
  The Commission shall design and implement policies which encourage the economical utilization of cogeneration and small power production, as these terms are defined in Section...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-403.1
  Electricity purchased from qualified solid waste energy facility; tax credit; distributions for economic development.

  (a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of this...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-404
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 87-812. Repealed by P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-405
  The Commission is authorized, to the extent consistent with its energy supply planning responsibilities and the energy supply planning objectives of this Act, to...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-405.1
  The Commission, in cooperation with the Department of Natural Resources, shall study the feasibility of wheeling electricity in Illinois. Such study shall include, but...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-406
  Certificate of public convenience and necessity.

  (a) No public utility not owning any city or village franchise nor engaged in performing any public service...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-406.1
  Certificate of public convenience and necessity; expedited procedure.

  (a) A public utility may apply for a certificate of public convenience and necessity pursuant to this...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-407
  (a) The Commission, after granting any certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a new electric generating facility, shall reevaluate the...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-408
  Energy efficiency plans for small multi-jurisdictional utilities.

  (a) Any electric or gas public utility with fewer than 200,000 customers in Illinois on January 1, 2007...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-501
  Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, shall find that the rules, regulations, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-501.5
  Employees and independent contractors; background checks.

  (a) Before hiring an employee or independent contractor to perform work involving facilities used for the distribution...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-502
  Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, shall find that public convenience and necessity require the use...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-503
  Whenever the Commission, after a hearing, shall find that additions, extensions, repairs or improvements to, or changes in, the existing plant, equipment, apparatus, facilities or...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-504
  The Commission is authorized to make rules and regulations concerning the conditions to be contained in and become a part of contracts for public...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-505
  The Commission shall have power, after a hearing or without a hearing as provided in this Section and upon its own motion, or upon...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-505.1
  Non-emergency vegetation management activities.

  (a) Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), and (d), in conducting its non-emergency vegetation management activities, an electric public...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-505.5
  Work on natural gas regulator or manometer. The Commission shall require, under such rules as it may prescribe, a public utility that is performing...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-506
  Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, shall determine that public convenience and necessity require a physical...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-507
  Every public utility shall file with the Commission, under such rules and regulations as the Commission may prescribe, a report of every accident occurring...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-508
  Except as provided in Section 12-306, no public utility shall abandon or discontinue any service or, in the case of an electric utility, make...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-508.1
  (a) As used in this Section:

  (1) "Decommissioning" means the series of activities undertaken at the time a nuclear power plant is permanently...

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-509
  When necessary for the construction of any alterations, additions, extensions or improvements ordered or authorized under Section 8-406.1, 8-503, or 12-218 of this Act, any...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-509.5
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-510
  Land surveys and land use studies. For the purpose of making land surveys and land use studies, any public utility that has been granted a...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 8-511
  (Repealed).

  (Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09. Repealed by P.A. 96-40, eff. 7-13-09.)

Last modified: February 20, 2012