Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 Utilities: Article XIII - Telecommunications

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-100
  This Article shall be known and may be cited as the Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985. (Source: P.A. 84-1063.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-101
  Application of Act to telecommunications rates and services. The Sections of this Act pertaining to public utilities, public utility rates and services, and the regulation...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-102
  Findings. With respect to telecommunications services, as herein defined, the General Assembly finds that: (a) universally available and widely affordable telecommunications services are essential...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-103
  Policy. Consistent with its findings, the General Assembly declares that it is the policy of the State of Illinois that: (a) telecommunications services should...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-201
  Unless otherwise specified, the terms set forth in the following Sections preceding Section 13-301 of this Article are used in this Act and Article...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-202
  "Telecommunications carrier" means and includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock company or association, firm, partnership or individual, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-202.5
  Incumbent local exchange carrier. "Incumbent local exchange carrier" means, with respect to an area, the telecommunications carrier that provided noncompetitive local exchange telecommunications service...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-203
  Telecommunications service. "Telecommunications service" means the provision or offering for rent, sale or lease, or in exchange for other value received, of the transmittal...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-204
  "Local Exchange Telecommunications Service" means telecommunications service between points within an exchange, as defined in Section 13-206, or the provision of telecommunications service for...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-205
  "Interexchange Telecommunications Service" means telecommunications service between points in two or more exchanges. (Source: P.A. 84-1063.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-206
  Exchange. "Exchange" means a geographical area for the administration of telecommunications services, established and described by the tariff of a telecommunications carrier providing local...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-207
  "Local Access and Transport Area (LATA)" means a geographical area designated by the Modification of Final Judgment in U.S. v. Western Electric Co., Inc.,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-208
  "Market Service Area (MSA)" means a geographical area consisting of one or more exchanges, defined by the Commission for the administration of tariffs, services...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-209
  "Competitive Telecommunications Service" means a telecommunications service, its functional equivalent or a substitute service, which, for some identifiable class or group of customers in...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-210
  "Noncompetitive Telecommunications Service" means a telecommunications service other than a competitive service as defined in Section 13-209. (Source: P.A. 84-1063.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-211
  "Resale of Telecommunications Service" means the offering or provision of telecommunications service primarily through the use of services or facilities owned or provided by...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-212
  "Telephone or Telecommunications Cooperative" means any Illinois corporation organized on a cooperative basis for the furnishing of telephone or telecommunications service. (Source: P.A. 84-1063.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-213
  "Hearing-aid compatible telephone" means a telephone so equipped that it can activate an inductive coupling hearing-aid or which will provide an alternative technology that...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-214
  (a) "Public mobile services" means air-to-ground radio telephone services, cellular radio telecommunications services, offshore radio, rural radio service, public land mobile telephone service and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-215
  (a) "Essential telephones" means all coin operated telephones in any public or semi-public location, telephones provided for emergency use, a reasonable percentage of telephones...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-216
  Network element. "Network element" means a facility or equipment used in the provision of a telecommunications service. The term also includes features, functions, and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-217
  End user. "End user" means any person, corporation, partnership, firm, municipality, cooperative, organization, governmental agency, building owner, or other entity provided with a telecommunications...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-218
  Business end user. "Business end user" means (1) an end user engaged primarily or substantially in a paid commercial, professional, or institutional activity; (2)...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-219
  Residential end user. "Residential end user" means an end user other than a business end user. (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-220
  Retail telecommunications service. "Retail telecommunications service" means a telecommunications service sold to an end user. "Retail telecommunications service" does not include a telecommunications service...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-230
  Prepaid calling service. "Prepaid calling service" means telecommunications service that must be paid for in advance by an end user, enables the end user to...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-231
  Prepaid calling service provider. "Prepaid calling service provider" means and includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock company or association, firm, partnership, or individual and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-232
  Prepaid calling service retailer. "Prepaid calling service retailer" means and includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock company or association, firm, partnership, or individual and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-233
  Prepaid calling service reseller. "Prepaid calling service reseller" means and includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock company or association, firm, partnership, or individual and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-234
  Interconnected voice over Internet protocol service. "Interconnected voice over Internet protocol service" or "Interconnected VoIP service" has the meaning prescribed in 47 CFR 9.3 as...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-235
  Interconnected voice over Internet protocol provider. "Interconnected voice over Internet protocol provider" or "Interconnected VoIP provider" means and includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-301
  Duties of the Commission. (1) Consistent with the findings and policy established in paragraph (a) of Section 13-102 and paragraph (a) of Section 13-103, and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-301.1
  Universal Telephone Service Assistance Program. (a) The Commission shall by rule or regulation establish a Universal Telephone Service Assistance Program for low income residential customers....
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-301.2
  Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital Divide. The Commission shall require by rule that each telecommunications carrier providing local exchange telecommunications service notify its...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-301.3
  Digital Divide Elimination Infrastructure Program. (a) The Digital Divide Elimination Infrastructure Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. All moneys in...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-302
  (a) No telecommunications carrier shall implement a local measured service calling plan which does not include one of the following elements: (1) the residential...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-303
  Action to enforce law or orders. Whenever the Commission is of the opinion that a telecommunications carrier is failing or omitting, or is about...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-303.5
  Injunctive relief. If, after a hearing, the Commission determines that a telecommunications carrier has violated this Act or a Commission order or rule, any...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-304
  Action to recover civil penalties. (a) The Commission shall assess and collect all civil penalties established under this Act against telecommunications carriers, corporations other...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-305
  Amount of civil penalty. A telecommunications carrier, any corporation other than a telecommunications carrier, or any person acting as a telecommunications carrier that violates...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-401
  Certificate of Service Authority. (a) No telecommunications carrier not possessing a certificate of public convenience and necessity or certificate of authority from the Commission...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-401.1
  Interconnected voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service provider registration. (a) An Interconnected VoIP provider providing fixed or non-nomadic service in Illinois on December 1, 2010...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-402
  The Commission is authorized, in connection with the issuance or modification of a Certificate of Interexchange Service Authority or the modification of a certificate...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-402.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 87-856. Repealed by P.A. 96-927, eff. 6-15-10.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-403
  Interexchange service authority; approval. The Commission shall approve an application for a Certificate of Interexchange Service Authority only upon a showing by the applicant,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-404
  Any telecommunications carrier offering or providing the resale of either local exchange or interexchange telecommunications service must first obtain a Certificate of Service Authority....
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-404.1
  Prepaid calling service authority; rules. (a) The General Assembly finds that it is necessary to require the certification of prepaid calling service providers to protect...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-404.2
  Prepaid calling service standards. The Commission, by rule, may establish and implement minimum service quality standards for prepaid calling service. The rules may include, but...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-405
  Local exchange service authority; approval. The Commission shall approve an application for a Certificate of Exchange Service Authority only upon a showing by the...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-405.1
  Interexchange services; incidental local service. Whether or not a telecommunications carrier is certified to offer or provide local exchange telecommunications service, nothing in Section...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-406
  Abandonment of service. No telecommunications carrier offering or providing noncompetitive telecommunications service pursuant to a valid Certificate of Service Authority or certificate of public convenience...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-407
  Commission study and report. The Commission shall monitor and analyze patterns of entry and exit and changes in patterns of entry and exit for each...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-408
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 93-5, eff. 5-9-03. Repealed by P.A. 96-927, eff. 6-15-10.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-409
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 93-521, eff. 8-9-03. Repealed by P.A. 96-927, eff. 6-15-10.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-501
  Tariff; filing. (a) No telecommunications carrier shall offer or provide noncompetitive telecommunications service, telecommunications service subject to subsection (g) of Section 13-506.2 or Section 13-900.1...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-501.5
  Directory assistance service for the blind. A telecommunications carrier that provides directory assistance service shall provide in its tariffs or its written service offering pursuant...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-502
  Classification of services. (a) All telecommunications services offered or provided under tariff by telecommunications carriers shall be classified as either competitive or noncompetitive. A...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-502.5
  Services alleged to be improperly classified. (a) Any action or proceeding pending before the Commission upon the effective date of this amendatory Act of...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-503
  Information available to the public. With respect to rates or other charges made, demanded, or received for any telecommunications service offered, provided, or to be...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-504
  Application of ratemaking provisions of Article IX. (a) Except where the context clearly renders such provisions inapplicable, the ratemaking provisions of Article IX of...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505
  Rate changes; competitive services. Any proposed increase or decrease in rates or charges, or proposed change in any classification, written service offering, or tariff resulting...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 87-856. Repealed by P.A. 96-927, eff. 6-15-10.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505.2
  Nondiscrimination in the provision of noncompetitive services. A telecommunications carrier that offers both noncompetitive and competitive services shall offer the noncompetitive services under the...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505.3
  Services for resale. A telecommunications carrier that offers both noncompetitive and competitive services shall offer all noncompetitive services, together with each applicable optional feature...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505.4
  Provision of noncompetitive services. (a) A telecommunications carrier that offers or provides a noncompetitive service, service element, feature, or functionality on a separate, stand-alone basis...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505.5
  Requests for new noncompetitive services. Any party may petition the Commission to request the provision of a noncompetitive service not currently provided by a...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505.6
  Unbundling of noncompetitive services. A telecommunications carrier that provides both noncompetitive and competitive telecommunications services shall provide all noncompetitive telecommunications services on an unbundled...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505.7
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98. Repealed by P.A. 96-927, eff. 6-15-10.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-505.8
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97. Renumbered by P.A. 90-655. Repealed by P.A. 90-574, eff. 3-20-98.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-506
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98. Repealed by P.A. 96-927, eff. 6-15-10.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-506.1
  Alternative forms of regulation for noncompetitive services. (a) Notwithstanding any of the ratemaking provisions of this Article or Article IX that are deemed to...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-506.2
  Market regulation for competitive retail services. (a) Definitions. As used in this Section: (1) "Electing Provider" means a telecommunications carrier that is subject to either...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-507
  In any proceeding permitting, approving, investigating, or establishing rates, charges, classifications, or tariffs for telecommunications services offered or provided by a telecommunications carrier that...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-507.1
  In any proceeding permitting, approving, investigating, or establishing rates, charges, classifications, or tariffs for telecommunications services classified as noncompetitive offered or provided by an incumbent...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-508
  The Commission is authorized, after notice and hearing, to order a telecommunications carrier which offers or provides both competitive and noncompetitive telecommunications service to...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-508.1
  Separate subsidiary requirement for certain electronic publishing. A telecommunications carrier that offers or provides both competitive and noncompetitive services shall not provide (1) electronically...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-509
  Agreements for provisions of competitive telecommunications services differing from tariffs or written service offerings. A telecommunications carrier may negotiate with customers or prospective customers to...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-510
  Compensation of payphone providers. Any telecommunications carrier using the facilities or services of a payphone provider shall pay the provider just and reasonable compensation...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-511
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 92-526, eff. 1-1-03. Repealed by P.A. 96-927, eff. 6-15-10.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-512
  Rules; review. The Commission shall have general rulemaking authority to make rules necessary to enforce this Article. However, not later than 270 days after...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-513
  Waiver of rules. A telecommunications carrier may petition for waiver of the application of a rule issued pursuant to this Act. The burden of...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-514
  Prohibited Actions of Telecommunications Carriers. A telecommunications carrier shall not knowingly impede the development of competition in any telecommunications service market. The following prohibited actions...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-515
  Enforcement. (a) The following expedited procedures shall be used to enforce the provisions of Section 13-514 of this Act, provided that, for a violation of...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-516
  Enforcement remedies for prohibited actions by telecommunications carriers. (a) In addition to any other provision of this Act, all of the following remedies may be...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-517
  Provision of advanced telecommunications services. (a) Every Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (telecommunications carrier that offers or provides a noncompetitive telecommunications service) shall offer or provide...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-518
  Optional service packages. (a) It is the intent of this Section to provide unlimited local service packages at prices that will result in savings...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-519
  Fire alarm; discontinuance of service. When a telecommunications carrier initiates a discontinuance of service on a known emergency system or fire alarm system that...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-601
  Application of Article VII. The provisions of Article VII of this Act are applicable only to telecommunications carriers offering or providing noncompetitive telecommunications service,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-701
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act to the contrary, the Commission has no power to supervise or control any telephone cooperative as respects assessment...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-702
  Every telecommunications carrier operating in this State shall receive, transmit and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the conversations, messages or other transmissions of every...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-703
  (a) The Commission shall design and implement a program whereby each telecommunications carrier providing local exchange service shall provide a telecommunications device capable of servicing...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-704
  Each page of a billing statement which sets forth charges assessed against a customer by a telecommunications carrier for telecommunications service shall reflect the telephone...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-705
  Every telephone directory distributed after July 1, 1990 to the general public in this State which lists the calling numbers of telephones, of any...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-706
  Except as provided in Section 13-707 of this Act, all essential telephones, all coin-operated phones and all emergency telephones sold, rented or distributed by...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-707
  The following telephones shall be exempt from the requirements of Section 13-706 of this Act: telephones used with public mobile services; telephones used with...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-708
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-709
  Orders of correction. (a) A telecommunications carrier shall comply with orders of correction issued by the Department of Public Health under Section 5 of...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-712
  Basic local exchange service quality; customer credits. (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that every telecommunications carrier meet minimum service quality standards...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-713
  Consumer complaint resolution process. (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that consumer complaints against telecommunications carriers shall be concluded as expeditiously...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-801
  Incumbent local exchange carrier obligations. (a) This Section provides additional State requirements contemplated by, but not inconsistent with, Section 261(c) of the federal Telecommunications...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-802
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 84-1063. Repealed by P.A. 96-927, eff. 6-15-10.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-802.1
  Depreciation; examination and audit; agreement conditions; federal Telecommunications Act of 1996. (a) In performing any cost analysis authorized pursuant to this Act, the Commission may...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-803
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97. Repealed by P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01.)
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-804
  Broadband investment. Increased investment into broadband infrastructure is critical to the economic development of this State and a key component to the retention of existing...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-900
  Authority to serve as 9-1-1 system provider; rules. (a) The General Assembly finds that it is necessary to require the certification of 9-1-1 system providers...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-900.1
  Authority over 9-1-1 rates and terms of service. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, the Commission retains its full authority over the rates and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-900.2
  (220 ILCS 5/13-900.2) (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2015) Sec. 13-900.2. Access services. (a) This Section shall apply to switched access...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-900.3
  Regulatory flexibility for 9-1-1 system providers. (a) For purposes of this Section, "Regional Pilot Project" to implement next generation 9-1-1 has the same meaning as...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-901
  Operator Service Provider. (a) For the purposes of this Section: (1) "Operator service provider" means every telecommunications carrier that provides operator services or any...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-902
  Authorization and verification of a subscriber's change in telecommunications carrier. (a) Definitions; scope. (1) "Submitting carrier" means any telecommunications carrier that requests on behalf...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-903
  Authorization, verification or notification, and dispute resolution for covered product and service charges on the telephone bill. (a) Definitions. As used in this Section: (1)...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 13-1200
  Repealer. This Article is repealed July 1, 2015. (Source: P.A. 98-45, eff. 6-28-13.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015