Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 Utilities: Article -

• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act, and for the purposes of participating in...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2
  Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context clearly otherwise requires, the terms specified in Sections 2.1 through 2.11 have the meanings ascribed to...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.1
  "Person" means an individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, municipality or other governmental unit, department or agency, utility cooperative, or joint stock association, and...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.1.3
  No show request. "No show request" means a notice initiated by an excavator through the State-Wide One-Call Notice System to the owners or operators of...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.1.4
  Incomplete request. "Incomplete request" means a notice initiated by an excavator through the State-Wide One-Call Notice System to the owners or operators of underground utility...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.1.5
  Re-mark request. "Re-mark request" means a notice initiated by an excavator through the State-Wide One-Call Notice System to the owners or operators of underground utility...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.1.6
  Residential property owner. "Residential property owner" means any individual or entity that owns or leases real property that is used by such individual or entity...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.1.9
  JULIE Excavator Handbook. "JULIE Excavator Handbook" means the handbook periodically updated and published by the State-Wide One-Call Notice System that provides information for excavators and...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.1.10
  Internal electric grid of a wind turbine generation farm. "Internal electric grid of a wind turbine generation farm" means those facilities located within a wind...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.2
  Underground utility facilities. (a) "Underground utility facilities" or "facilities" means and includes wires, ducts, fiber optic cable, conduits, pipes, sewers, and cables and their connected...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.3
  Excavation. "Excavation" means any operation in which earth, rock, or other material in or on the ground is moved, removed, or otherwise displaced by means...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.4
  "Demolition" means the wrecking, razing, rending, moving, or removing of a structure by means of any power tool, power equipment (exclusive of transportation equipment)...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.5
  "Damage" means the contact or dislocation of any underground utility facility or CATS facility during excavation or demolition which necessitates immediate or subsequent repair...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.6
  Emergency locate request. "Emergency locate request" means a locate request for any condition constituting an imminent danger to life, health, or property, or a utility...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.7
  Tolerance zone. "Tolerance zone" means the approximate location of underground utility facilities or CATS facilities defined as a strip of land at least 3...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.8
  Approximate location. "Approximate location" means a strip of land at least 3 feet wide, but not wider than the width of the underground facility...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.9
  "Forty-eight hours" means 2 business days beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m. (exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays recognized by the State-Wide...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.10
  "Open cut utility locate" means a method of locating underground utility facilities that requires excavation by the owner, operator, or agent of the underground facility....
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 2.11
  "Roadway surface milling" means the removal of a uniform pavement section by rotomilling, grinding, or other means not including the base or subbase. (Source: P.A....
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 3
  The owners or operators of underground utility facilities or CATS facilities that are not currently participants in the State-Wide One-Call Notice System shall, within...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 4
  Required activities. Every person who engages in nonemergency excavation or demolition shall: (a) take reasonable action to inform himself of the location of any underground...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 5
  Notice of preconstruction conference. When the Illinois Department of Transportation notifies an owner or operator of an underground utility facility or CATS facility that...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 6
  Emergency excavation or demolition. (a) Every person who engages in emergency excavation or demolition outside of the boundaries of a municipality of at least one...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 7
  Damage or dislocation. In the event of any damage to or dislocation of any underground utility facilities in connection with any excavation or demolition, emergency...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 8
  Liability or financial responsibility. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect or determine the financial responsibility for any operation under this...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 9
  When it is shown by competent evidence in any action for damages to underground utility facilities or CATS facilities that such damages resulted from...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 10
  Record of notice; marking of facilities. Upon notice by the person engaged in excavation or demolition, the person owning or operating underground utility facilities in...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 11
  Penalties; liability; fund. (a) Every person who, while engaging in excavation or demolition, wilfully fails to comply with the Act by failing to provide the...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 11.3
  Emergency telephone system outages; reimbursement. Any person who negligently damages an underground facility or CATS facility causing an emergency telephone system outage must reimburse...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 11.5
  Limitation on liability. (a) In joining the State-Wide One-Call Notice System, a municipality's liability, under any membership agreement rules and regulations, for the indemnification...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 12
  No action may be brought under Section 11 of this Act unless commenced within 2 years after the date of violation of this Act....
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 13
  Mandamus or injunction. Where public safety or the preservation of uninterrupted, necessary utility service or community antenna television system service is endangered by any...
• Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. - 220 ILCS 50, Section 14
  Home rule. The regulation of underground utility facilities and CATS facilities damage prevention, as provided for in this Act, is an exclusive power and...

Last modified: February 18, 2015