Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 Utilities: Article IX - Rates

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-101
  All rates or other charges made, demanded or received by any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or for any service rendered...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-102
  Every public utility shall file with the Commission and shall print and keep open to public inspection schedules showing all rates and other charges,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-102.1
  Negotiated rates. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Section of Article IX of this Act, the Commission may approve one or...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-103
  Posting of rate schedules. Subject to such rules and regulations as the Commission may prescribe, the schedules referred to in Section 9-102 shall be...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-104
  No public utility shall undertake to perform any service or to furnish any product or commodity unless or until the rates and other charges...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-201
  (a) Unless the Commission otherwise orders, and except as otherwise provided in this Section, no change shall be made by any public utility in any...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-201.5
  Decommissioning nuclear power plants; rates. (a) The Commission may after hearing, in a rate case or otherwise, authorize the institution of rate provisions or...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-202
  (a) Whenever the Commission is of the opinion and so finds after an examination of any report or reports, annual or otherwise, filed with...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-210
  The Commission shall have power to ascertain the value of the property of every public utility in this State and every fact which in...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-210.5
  Valuation of water and sewer utilities. (a) In this Section: "Disinterested" means that the person directly involved (1) is not a director, officer, or an...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-211
  The Commission, in any determination of rates or charges, shall include in a utility's rate base only the value of such investment which is...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-212
  No new electric utility generating plant or gas production facility, or significant addition to existing facilities or plant, shall be included in a utility's...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-213
  The cost of new electric utility generating plants and significant additions to electric utility generating plants shall not be included in the rate base...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-214
  (a) As used in this Section: (1) "CWIP" means those assets which are recorded as construction work in progress on a public utility's books...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-215
  The Commission shall have power to consider, on a case by case basis, the status of a utility's capacity and to determine whether or...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-215.1
  Capacity purchased from a qualified local solid waste energy facility shall not be included in the calculation of an electric utility's electricity generating capacity...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-216
  The Commission shall establish, by rulemaking, the policies and procedures which shall be utilized in evaluating and deciding any requests for the recovery and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-217
  In each case or proceeding to determine the reasonableness of rates for any electric utility which involves the proposed inclusion of a significant new...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-220
  Rate changes based on changes in fuel costs. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9-201, the Commission may authorize the increase or decrease of rates...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-220.1
  Environmental fees - modification of rates and charges. Any electric public utility may file a separate tariff designed to recover the fees paid under...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-220.2
  Water and sewer surcharges authorized. (a) The Commission may authorize a water or sewer utility to file a surcharge which adjusts rates and charges...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-220.3
  Natural gas surcharges authorized. (a) Tariff. (1) Pursuant to Section 9-201 of this Act, a natural gas utility serving more than 700,000 customers may file...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-221
  Whenever a municipality pursuant to Section 8-11-2 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended, imposes a tax on any public utility,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-222
  Whenever a tax is imposed upon a public utility engaged in the business of distributing, supplying, furnishing, or selling gas for use or consumption...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-222.1
  A business enterprise which is located within an area designated by a county or municipality as an enterprise zone pursuant to the Illinois Enterprise Zone...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-222.1A
  High impact business. Beginning on August 1, 1998 and thereafter, a business enterprise that is certified as a High Impact Business by the Department of...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-222.2
  Additional Charge - Recovery. The additional charge authorized by Section 9-221 or Section 9-222 shall be made (i) in the case of a tax...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-222.3
  Recovery of additional charges refunded to customers. (a) If a telecommunications carrier is required to make a refund as a result of an additional...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-223
  Fire protection charge. (a) The Commission may authorize any public utility engaged in the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery or furnishing of water to impose...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-224
  The Commission shall not consider as an expense of any public utility company, for the purpose of determining any rate or charge, any amount...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-225
  (1) For the purposes of this Section: (a) "Advertising" means the commercial use, by an electric, gas, water, or sewer utility, of any media, including...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-226
  In any general rate increase proceeding in which Section 9-225 of this Act applies, the following materials shall be made available to the Commission:...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-227
  It shall be proper for the Commission to consider as an operating expense, for the purpose of determining whether a rate or other charge...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-229
  Consideration of attorney and expert compensation as an expense. The Commission shall specifically assess the justness and reasonableness of any amount expended by a public...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-230
  Rate of return; financial involvement with nonutility or unregulated companies. In determining a reasonable rate of return upon investment for any public utility in...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-240
  Except as in this Act otherwise provided, no public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-241
  No public utility shall, as to rates or other charges, services, facilities or in other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-242
  The Commission shall study the costs and benefits of implementing promotional rates for a public utility's industrial and commercial customers when such rates are...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-243
  No public utility, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall directly or indirectly, by any...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-244
  Alternative rate regulation. (a) Notwithstanding any of the ratemaking provisions of this Article IX or other Sections of this Act, or the Commission's rules...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-245
  Rates; environmental fines and remediation. In determining the rates for a public utility engaged in providing natural gas service, the Commission may not include...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-250
  Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, shall find that the rates or other charges, or classifications,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-251
  The Commission shall have the power to investigate all existing or proposed interstate rates or other charges, and classifications, and all rules and practices...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-252
  When complaint is made to the Commission concerning any rate or other charge of any public utility and the Commission finds, after a hearing,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-252.1
  When a customer pays a bill as submitted by a public utility and the billing is later found to be incorrect due to an...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 9-253
  Refunds. (a) If the Commission or a court determines that a public utility has overcharged its customers and orders that a refund be made...

Last modified: February 18, 2015