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Sec. 1-101. Short title.

Sec. 1-102. Findings and Intent.

Sec. 2-101. Commerce Commission created.

Sec. 2-102. (a) Each commissioner and each person appointed to office by the Commission shall before entering upon the duties of his office take and subscribe the constitut.

Sec. 2-103. (a) No former member of the Commission or person formerly employed by the Commission may represent any person before the Commission in any capacity with respect.

Sec. 2-104. It is declared to be the public policy of this State that the Illinois Commerce Commission established herein is a quasi-judicial body and that each commissione.

Sec. 2-105. Organization; executive director; assistants to Commissioners.

Sec. 2-106. (a) The executive director shall employ administrative law judges to make valuations of public utility properties, or to estimate proper rates of service of pub.

Sec. 2-107. The office of the Commission shall be in Springfield, but the Commission may, with the approval of the Governor, establish and maintain branch offices at places.

Sec. 2-108. Disqualification of a Commissioner from certain proceedings.

Sec. 2-201. There shall be paid to the Commission the following fees: For copies of evidence and proceedings before the Commission, official documents and orders filed in i.

Sec. 2-202. Policy; Public Utility Fund; tax.

Sec. 2-203. (Repealed).

Sec. 3-101. Definitions.

Sec. 3-102. "Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission, which is created and established under the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 3-103. "Commissioner" means one of the members of the Commission.

Sec. 3-104. "Executive Director" means the person holding the position of Executive Director created and established under the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 3-105. Public utility.

Sec. 3-112. "Company," when used in connection with a public utility, includes any corporation, company, limited liability company, association, joint stock company or asso.

Sec. 3-113. "Corporation" includes any corporation, company, limited liability company, association, joint stock company or association, but not municipal corporations.

Sec. 3-114. "Person" includes an individual, firm, limited liability company, or co-partnership.

Sec. 3-115. "Service" is used in its broadest and most inclusive sense, and includes not only the use or accommodation afforded consumers or patrons, but also any product o.

Sec. 3-116. "Rate" includes every individual or joint rate, fare, toll, charge, rental or other compensation of any public utility or any two or more such individual or joi.

Sec. 3-117. "City council" includes the mayor and commissioners of cities which have adopted the Commission form of municipal government and the council of all other cities.

Sec. 3-118. "City" includes all villages and incorporated towns.

Sec. 3-119. "Electric cooperative" is any electric cooperative which is subject to the Electric Suppliers Act, enacted by the 74th General Assembly, and has the same meanin.

Sec. 3-120. As used in Section 3-121 of this Act, the term "intrastate public utility business" includes all that portion of the business of the public utilities designated.

Sec. 3-121. As used in Section 2-202 of this Act, the term "gross revenue" includes all revenue which (1) is collected by a public utility subject to regulations under this.

Sec. 3-122. Electronic.

Sec. 3-124. Adjusted final capitalized plant cost.

Sec. 3-125. Final capitalized plant cost.

Sec. 3-126. Total capitalized asset cost.

Sec. 3-127. Carbon dioxide pipeline.

Sec. 4-101. The Commerce Commission shall have general supervision of all public utilities, except as otherwise provided in this Act, shall inquire into the management of t.

Sec. 4-201. It is hereby made the duty of the Commission to see that the provisions of the Constitution and statutes of this State affecting public utilities, the enforceme.

Sec. 4-202. Action for injunction.

Sec. 4-202.1. Enforcement of service area agreement between municipality and electric cooperative.

Sec. 4-203. Action to recover penalties.

Sec. 4-204. If the Secretary of State has dissolved or revoked the authority of any domestic or foreign company regulated under this Act to do business in Illinois because.

Sec. 4-205. This amendatory Act of 1985 shall not have the effect to release or waive any right of action by the State, the Commission, or by any body politic, municipal co.

Sec. 4-301. The Commission may confer in person, or by correspondence, by attending conventions, or in any other way, with Commissions and any and all agencies dealing with.

Sec. 4-302. The Commission shall cooperate with the Regional Transportation Authority created pursuant to the "Regional Transportation Authority Act", enacted by the 78th G.

Sec. 4-303. Neither this Act nor any provision thereof shall apply or be construed to apply to commerce with foreign nations or commerce among the several states of this Un.

Sec. 4-304. Beginning in 1986, the Commission shall prepare an annual report which shall be filed by January 31 of each year with the Joint Committee on Legislative Support.

Sec. 4-305. (Repealed).

Sec. 4-401. If any Section, subdivision, sentence or clause of this Act is for any reason held invalid or to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validit.

Sec. 4-402. This amendatory Act of 1985 shall not affect pending actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, in any court or other tribunal brought by or against the People.

Sec. 4-404. Protection of confidential and proprietary information.

Sec. 4-501. Small public utilities and telecommunications carriers; circuit court appointment of receiver; bond.

Sec. 4-502. Small public utility or telecommunications carrier; acquisition by capable utility; Commission determination; procedure.

Sec. 4-601. Consumer protection laws.

Sec. 4-602. Electric utility workforce study.

Sec. 4-603. Adequate employment for in-house utility employees.

Sec. 4-604. Electric and gas public utilities ethical conduct and transparency.

Sec. 4-604.5. Restitution for misconduct.

Sec. 4-605. Reliability mitigation plan findings.

Sec. 4-610. Thermal energy networks.

Sec. 4-615. Training for carbon dioxide emergencies.

Sec. 5-101. Every public utility shall furnish to the Commission all information required by it to carry into effect the provisions of this Act, and shall make specific ans.

Sec. 5-102. The Commission shall have power to establish a uniform system of accounts to be kept by public utilities or to classify public utilities and to establish a unif.

Sec. 5-103. Such systems of accounts shall provide for forms showing all sources of incomes, the amounts due and received from each source and the amounts expended and due.

Sec. 5-104. Depreciation accounts.

Sec. 5-105. The Commission may provide for the examination and audit of all accounts, and all items shall be allocated to the accounts in the manner prescribed by the Commi.

Sec. 5-106. Each public utility shall have an office in one of the cities, villages or incorporated towns in this State in which its property or some part thereof is locate.

Sec. 5-107. Any person who shall wilfully make any false entry in the accounts, or in any record or memoranda or by any other means or device falsify the record of any such.

Sec. 5-108. Any officer or employee of the Commission who divulges any fact or information coming to his knowledge during the course of an inspection, examination or invest.

Sec. 5-109. Reports; false reports; penalty.

Sec. 5-110. Disclosure of customer information to law enforcement agencies.

Sec. 5-111. Natural gas performance reporting.

Sec. 5-115. (Repealed).

Sec. 5-117. Supplier diversity goals.

Sec. 5-201. In case any public utility shall do, cause to be done or permit to be done any act, matter or thing prohibited, forbidden or declared to be unlawful, or shall o.

Sec. 5-202. Violations; penalty.

Sec. 5-202.1. Misrepresentation before Commission; penalty.

Sec. 5-203. Every person who, either individually, or acting as an officer, agent, or employee of a public utility or of a corporation other than a public utility, violates.

Sec. 6-101. The power of public utilities to issue stocks, stock certificates, bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness and to create liens on their property is a s.

Sec. 6-102. Authorization of issues of stock.

Sec. 6-103. The capitalization of a public utility formed by a merger or consolidation of two or more corporations shall be subject to the approval of the Commission, but i.

Sec. 6-104. All stock and every stock certificate, and every bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness, of a public utility, not payable within twelve months issued with.

Sec. 6-105. Every public utility which, directly or indirectly, issues or causes to be issued, any stock, stock certificate, bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness, i.

Sec. 6-106. Every officer, agent or employee of a public utility, and every other person who knowingly authorizes, directs, issues or executes, causes to be issued or execu.

Sec. 6-107. No provisions of this Act, and no deed or act done or performed under or in connection therewith, shall be held or construed to obligate the State of Illinois t.

Sec. 6-108. The Commission shall charge every public utility receiving permission under this Act for the issue of stocks, bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness a.

Sec. 7-101. Transactions with affiliated interests.

Sec. 7-102. Transactions requiring Commission approval.

Sec. 7-103. (1) Whenever the Commission finds that the capital of any public utility has become impaired, or will be impaired by the payment of a dividend, the Commission s.

Sec. 7-104. In a proceeding before the Commission in which the consent and approval of the Commission to the sale, lease or other disposition of any real property owned by.

Sec. 7-105. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 6-103, 7-101, 7-102, 7-203, 7-204, and 7-204A of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated by the.

Sec. 7-106. (a) Subject to the limitations contained in this Section 7-106, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 6-103 and items (f), (g), and (h) of sub.

Sec. 7-107. Nothing in Section 7-105 or 7-106 of this Act shall be construed as (a) limiting the ability of any public utility to engage in, or the authority of the Commiss.

Sec. 7-108. (a) Where an affiliate of an electric public utility has offered an unregulated sale of electricity, and such affiliate would use a portion of the utility's dis.

Sec. 7-201. No franchise, license, permit or right to own, operate, manage or control any public utility, except common carriers engaged in interstate commerce and except t.

Sec. 7-202. (Repealed).

Sec. 7-203. No franchise, license, permit or right to own, operate, manage or control any public utility shall be assigned, transferred or leased nor shall any contract or.

Sec. 7-204. Reorganization defined; Commission approval.

Sec. 7-204A. (a) No Illinois public utility may reorganize as defined in Section 7-204 until the Commission has approved the application therefor.

Sec. 7-205. If any public utility is engaged in carrying on any business other than that of a public utility, which other business is not otherwise subject to the jurisdict.

Sec. 7-206. Separate accounts for nonpublic business of public utility.

Sec. 7-207. Nonprofit affiliates.

Sec. 7-208. HVAC affiliate marketing.

Sec. 7-209. Marketing limitation; gas utilities.

Sec. 7-210. Commission oversight of nonpublic, unregulated sales at retail of natural gas by public utilities.

Sec. 7-213. Limitations on the transfer of water systems.

Sec. 8-101. Duties of public utilities; nondiscrimination.

Sec. 8-101.5. Use of credit information of prospective and existing customers.

Sec. 8-102. Audit or investigation.

Sec. 8-103. Energy efficiency and demand-response measures.

Sec. 8-103A. Energy efficiency analysis.

Sec. 8-103B. Energy efficiency and demand-response measures.

Sec. 8-104. Natural gas energy efficiency programs.

Sec. 8-105. (Repealed).

Sec. 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 to pay.

Sec. 8-201.4. Prohibition on use of utility name or logo by non-utility entity.

Sec. 8-201.5. Military personnel in military service; no stoppage of gas or electricity; arrearage.

Sec. 8-201.6. Deferral of deposit; victims of domestic violence.

Sec. 8-201.7. Prohibition on deposits for low-income residential customers or applicants.

Sec. 8-201.8. Prohibition on late payment fees for low-income residential customers or applicants.

Sec. 8-201.9. Prohibition on credit card convenience fees.

Sec. 8-201.10. Disconnection and credit and collections reporting.

Sec. 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, Decembe.

Sec. 8-203. No public utility company which furnishes gas or electricity for space heating shall, during the calendar months of October, November, December, January, Februa.

Sec. 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 ele.

Sec. 8-205. (a) Termination of gas and electric utility service to all residential users, including all tenants of mastermetered apartment buildings, for nonpayment of bill.

Sec. 8-206. Winter termination for nonpayment.

Sec. 8-206.5. Disconnection Protection Program.

Sec. 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 and whose servi.

Sec. 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 se.

Sec. 8-209. Utility credit reporting.

Sec. 8-218. Utility-scale pilot projects.

Sec. 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, pr.

Sec. 8-302. The Commission shall require that every public utility furnishing natural or artificial gas, electricity or water to the public, where the individual consumptio.

Sec. 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 unreasonably high, it shal.

Sec. 8-304. (Repealed).

Sec. 8-305. Braille billing statements.

Sec. 8-306. Special provisions relating to water and sewer utilities.

Sec. 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 a.

Sec. 8-402. (Repealed).

Sec. 8-402.1. (Repealed).

Sec. 8-402.2. Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment programs.

Sec. 8-403. The Commission shall design and implement policies which encourage the economical utilization of cogeneration and small power production, as these terms are def.

Sec. 8-403.1. Electricity purchased from qualified solid waste energy facility; tax credit; distributions for economic development.

Sec. 8-404. (Repealed).

Sec. 8-405. (Repealed).

Sec. 8-405.1. (Repealed).

Sec. 8-406. Certificate of public convenience and necessity.

Sec. 8-406.1. Certificate of public convenience and necessity; expedited procedure.

Sec. 8-406.2. Certificate of public convenience and necessity; extension of utility service area and facilities to serve designated hardship areas.

Sec. 8-407. (a) The Commission, after granting any certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a new electric generating facility, shall reevalu.

Sec. 8-408. Energy efficiency plans for small multi-jurisdictional utilities.

Sec. 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, fa.

Sec. 8-501.5. Employees and independent contractors; background checks.

Sec. 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 by one publ.

Sec. 8-503. Whenever the Commission, after a hearing, shall find that additions, extensions, repairs or improvements to, or changes in, the existing plant, equipment, appar.

Sec. 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 utility servic.

Sec. 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 complaint, by general or spec.

Sec. 8-505.1. Non-emergency vegetation management activities.

Sec. 8-505.5. Work on natural gas regulator or manometer.

Sec. 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 con.

Sec. 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 to o.

Sec. 8-508. No public utility shall abandon or discontinue any service or, in the case of an electric utility, make any modification as herein defined, without first having.

Sec. 8-508.1. (a) As used in this Section:.

Sec. 8-509. When necessary for the construction of any alterations, additions, extensions or improvements ordered or authorized under Section 8-406.

Sec. 8-509.5. Eminent domain.

Sec. 8-510. Land surveys and land use studies.

Sec. 8-511. (Repealed).

Sec. 8-512. Renewable energy access plan.

Sec. 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 or to be rendered sha.

Sec. 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, and classi.

Sec. 9-102.1. Negotiated rates.

Sec. 9-103. Posting of rate schedules.

Sec. 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 and classifications,.

Sec. 9-107. Revenue balancing adjustments.

Sec. 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 rate or other.

Sec. 9-201.5. Decommissioning nuclear power plants; rates.

Sec. 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 the Commission by any.

Sec. 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 its judgment may or does ha.

Sec. 9-210.6. Continuation of Section 9-210.

Sec. 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 both prudently incur.

Sec. 9-211.7. Financial assistance; water and sewer utilities.

Sec. 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 r.

Sec. 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 of any.

Sec. 9-214. (a) As used in this Section:.

Sec. 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 not such utility's capacity.

Sec. 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 c.

Sec. 9-216. (Repealed).

Sec. 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 generati.

Sec. 9-220. Rate changes based on changes in fuel costs.

Sec. 9-220.1. Environmental fees - modification of rates and charges.

Sec. 9-220.2. Water and sewer surcharges authorized.

Sec. 9-220.3. (Repealed).

Sec. 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, suc.

Sec. 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 pursuant t.

Sec. 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 Act.

Sec. 9-222.1A. High impact business.

Sec. 9-222.2. Additional Charge - Recovery.

Sec. 9-222.3. (Repealed).

Sec. 9-223. Fire protection charge.

Sec. 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 expended for politi.

Sec. 9-225. (1) For the purposes of this Section:.

Sec. 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:.

Sec. 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 or classification is su.

Sec. 9-228. Limits on public utility expenses.

Sec. 9-229. Consideration of attorney and expert compensation as an expense and intervenor compensation fund.

Sec. 9-230. Rate of return; financial involvement with nonutility or unregulated companies.

Sec. 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 any product.

Sec. 9-241. Nondiscrimination.

Sec. 9-242. (Repealed).

Sec. 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 device or means whatsoever,.

Sec. 9-244. Alternative rate regulation.

Sec. 9-245. Rates; environmental fines and remediation.

Sec. 9-246. Rates; lead hazard cost recovery by investor-owned water utilities.

Sec. 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, or any of th.

Sec. 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.

Sec. 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, that the public ut.

Sec. 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 error either in charging more than the pub.

Sec. 9-253. Refunds.

Sec. 10-101. The Commission, or any commissioner or administrative law judge designated by the Commission, shall have power to hold investigations, inquiries and hearings co.

Sec. 10-101.1. Mediation; arbitration; case management.

Sec. 10-102. All meetings of the Commission shall be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the Open Meetings Act.

Sec. 10-103. In all proceedings, investigations or hearings conducted by the Commission, except in the disposition of matters which the Commission is authorized to entertain.

Sec. 10-104. All hearings before the Commission or any commissioner or administrative law judge shall be held within the county in which the subject matter of the hearing is.

Sec. 10-105. No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any papers, books, accounts or documents in any investigation or inquiry or upon any hearing ordere.

Sec. 10-106. All subpoenas issued under the terms of this Act may be served by any person of full age.

Sec. 10-107. The Commission, each commissioner and each employee of the Commission properly authorized thereby shall have the right, at any and all times to inspect the pape.

Sec. 10-108. Complaints; notice; parties.

Sec. 10-109. The Commission shall have power to receive complaints regarding loss or damage occasioned by a public utility, and to make inquiry as to the methods of adjustin.

Sec. 10-110. At the time fixed for any hearing upon a complaint, the complainant and the person or corporation complained of, and such persons or corporations as the Commiss.

Sec. 10-111. In any hearing, proceeding, investigation, or rulemaking conducted by the Commission, the Commission, commissioner, or administrative law judge presiding, shall.

Sec. 10-112. Service of Commission orders.

Sec. 10-113. Rescission or hearing of order.

Sec. 10-201. (a) Jurisdiction.

Sec. 10-202. Appeals from all final orders and judgments entered by the appellate court, in review of rules, regulations, orders or decisions of the Commission, may be taken.

Sec. 10-203. In all appeals from the orders and decisions of the Commission, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to represent the Commission and defend its orders a.

Sec. 10-204. (a) The pendency of an appeal shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of the rule, regulation, order or decision of the Commission, but during the pen.

Sec. 11-101. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-201. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-202. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-203. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-204. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-205. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-206. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-207. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-208. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-301. (Repealed).

Sec. 11-302. (Repealed).

Sec. 12-103. (Renumbered).

Sec. 13-301.1. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-402.1. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-407. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-408. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-409. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-505.1. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-505.7. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-505.8. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-506. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-511. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-708. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-802. (Repealed).

Sec. 13-803. (Repealed).

Sec. 14-101. Whenever the city council of any city in this state shall pass and there shall become operative and effective an ordinance granting consent, permission and auth.

Sec. 14-102. Terms of office, vacancies, restrictions, and removals.

Sec. 14-103. Offices, employees and supplies, salaries.

Sec. 14-104. Rules and regulations, meetings, seal and authentication of records, etc.

Sec. 14-105. Powers and duties.

Sec. 14-106. Proceedings before the Commission and in the courts.

Sec. 14-107. Powers of supervision, etc.

Sec. 14-108. Transit Commission's powers to be regulatory.

Sec. 14-109. Transit Commission to supersede Illinois Commerce Commission.

Sec. 14-110. Saving provisions.

Sec. 15-100. Short Title.

Sec. 15-101. Application of Article.

Sec. 15-102. Application to natural gas and water common carriers by pipeline.

Sec. 15-103. Application of carbon dioxide pipelines.

Sec. 15-201. Definitions.

Sec. 15-301. Records and accounts.

Sec. 15-401. Licensing.

Sec. 15-501. Published rates.

Sec. 15-502. Effective dates of new or amended rates.

Sec. 15-503. (a) General requirement of filing, publication, and posting.

Sec. 15-504. Rate proceedings.

Sec. 15-505. Ratemaking standards.

Sec. 15-506. Charges to conform to tariffs or schedules and orders of the Commission.

Sec. 15-507. Joint rates and routes.

Sec. 15-508. Statute of limitations for charges.

Sec. 15-509. Rules.

Sec. 15-601. Safety regulation.

Sec. 15-701. Grandfather provision.

Sec. 16-101. Short title and applicability.

Sec. 16-101A. Legislative findings.

Sec. 16-102. Definitions.

Sec. 16-103. Service obligations of electric utilities.

Sec. 16-103.1. Tariffed service to Unit Owners' Associations.

Sec. 16-103.2. Market Settlement Service.

Sec. 16-104. Delivery services transition plan.

Sec. 16-105. Delivery services implementation plan.

Sec. 16-105.5. Rate case filing and revenue-neutral rate design.

Sec. 16-105.6. Amortization of charges or credits.

Sec. 16-105.7. Revenue balancing adjustments.

Sec. 16-105.10. Independent baseline assessment.

Sec. 16-105.17. Multi-Year Integrated Grid Plan.

Sec. 16-106. Billing experiments.

Sec. 16-107. Real-time pricing.

Sec. 16-107.5. Net electricity metering.

Sec. 16-107.6. Distributed generation rebate.

Sec. 16-107.7. Power price mitigation rebate.

Sec. 16-108. Recovery of costs associated with the provision of delivery and other services.

Sec. 16-108.5. Infrastructure investment and modernization; regulatory reform.

Sec. 16-108.6. Provisions relating to Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment Plan.

Sec. 16-108.7. Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Trust.

Sec. 16-108.8. Illinois Smart Grid test bed.

Sec. 16-108.10. Energy low-income and support program.

Sec. 16-108.11. Employment opportunities.

Sec. 16-108.12. Utility job training program.

Sec. 16-108.15. Rate impacts.

Sec. 16-108.16. Commercial Rate Impacts.

Sec. 16-108.18. Performance-based ratemaking.

Sec. 16-108.19. Division of Integrated Distribution Planning.

Sec. 16-108.20. Cost-effectiveness incentive.

Sec. 16-108.21. Accelerated repayment of excess deferred income tax.

Sec. 16-108.25. Tariff regarding transition in rates.

Sec. 16-108.30. Energy Transition Assistance Fund.

Sec. 16-109. Unbundling of delivery services; Commission review.

Sec. 16-109A. Unbundling of prices for tariffed services; Commission investigation.

Sec. 16-110. Delivery services customer power purchase options.

Sec. 16-111. Rates and restructuring transactions during mandatory transition period; restructuring and other transactions.

Sec. 16-111.1. Illinois Clean Energy Community Trust.

Sec. 16-111.2. Provisions related to proposed utility transactions.

Sec. 16-111.3. Transition period earnings calculations.

Sec. 16-111.5. Provisions relating to procurement.

Sec. 16-111.5A. Provisions relating to electric rate relief.

Sec. 16-111.5B. Provisions relating to energy efficiency procurement.

Sec. 16-111.6. Termination of utility service to electric space-heating customers.

Sec. 16-111.7. On-bill financing program; electric utilities.

Sec. 16-111.8. Automatic adjustment clause tariff; uncollectibles.

Sec. 16-111.9. Rate relief; electricity suppliers.

Sec. 16-111.10. Equitable Energy Upgrade Program.

Sec. 16-111.11. Supplier diversity reporting for non-utilities.

Sec. 16-112. Determination of market value.

Sec. 16-113. Declaration of service as a competitive service.

Sec. 16-114. Recovery of decommissioning charges.

Sec. 16-114.1. Recovery of decommissioning costs in connection with nuclear power plant sale agreement.

Sec. 16-115. Certification of alternative retail electric suppliers.

Sec. 16-115A. Obligations of alternative retail electric suppliers.

Sec. 16-115B. Commission oversight of services provided by alternative retail electric suppliers.

Sec. 16-115C. Licensure of agents, brokers, and consultants engaged in the procurement or sale of retail electricity supply for third parties.

Sec. 16-115D. Renewable portfolio standard for alternative retail electric suppliers and electric utilities operating outside their service territories.

Sec. 16-115E. Alternative retail electric supplier utility assistance recipient.

Sec. 16-116. Commission oversight of electric utilities serving retail customers outside their service areas or providing competitive, non-tariffed services.

Sec. 16-117. Commission consumer education program.

Sec. 16-118. Services provided by electric utilities to alternative retail electric suppliers.

Sec. 16-119. Switching suppliers.

Sec. 16-119A. Functional separation.

Sec. 16-120. Development of competitive market; Commission study and reports; investigation.

Sec. 16-121. Non-discrimination; adoption of rules and regulations.

Sec. 16-122. Customer information.

Sec. 16-123. Establishment of customer information centers for electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers.

Sec. 16-124. Metering for residential and small commercial retail customers.

Sec. 16-125. Transmission and distribution reliability requirements.

Sec. 16-125A. Consolidated billing provision for established intergovernmental agreement participants.

Sec. 16-126. Membership in an independent system operator.

Sec. 16-126.1. Regional transmission organization memberships.

Sec. 16-127. Environmental disclosure.

Sec. 16-128. Provisions related to utility employees.

Sec. 16-128A. Certification of installers, maintainers, or repairers.

Sec. 16-128B. Qualified energy efficiency installers.

Sec. 16-129. Existing contracts not affected.

Sec. 16-130. Annual reports.

Sec. 16-135. Energy Storage Program.

Sec. 17-100. Exemption from provisions of this amendatory Act of 1997.

Sec. 17-200. Election to provide existing or future customers access to alternative retail electric suppliers.

Sec. 17-300. Election to be an alternative retail electric supplier.

Sec. 17-400. Conditions prohibiting municipal system participation.

Sec. 17-500. Jurisdiction.

Sec. 17-600. Rights of electric cooperatives and municipal systems in conflict herewith.

Sec. 17-700. Right to create municipal utility unaffected.

Sec. 17-800. (Repealed).

Sec. 17-900. Customer self-generation of electricity.

Sec. 18-101. Short title and applicability.

Sec. 18-102. Definitions.

Sec. 18-103. Transitional funding orders.

Sec. 18-104. Terms and provisions of transitional funding orders.

Sec. 18-105. Intangible transition property.

Sec. 18-106. Grantee instruments.

Sec. 18-107. Security interests in intangible transition property and grantee instruments.

Sec. 18-108. Characterization of transfer.

Sec. 18-109. Actions with respect to intangible transition property and related instrument funding charges.

Sec. 18-110. Taxation of transfers of intangible transition property and grantee instruments.

Sec. 18-111. Limitations on issuance of transitional funding orders, collection of instrument funding charges, and use of proceeds from issuance of transitional funding inst.

Sec. 19-100. Short title.

Sec. 19-105. Definitions.

Sec. 19-110. Certification of alternative gas suppliers.

Sec. 19-111. Material changes in business.

Sec. 19-112. Managerial resources.

Sec. 19-115. Obligations of alternative gas suppliers.

Sec. 19-116. Alternative gas supplier utility assistance recipient.

Sec. 19-120. Commission oversight of services provided by gas suppliers.

Sec. 19-125. Consumer education.

Sec. 19-130. Commission study and report.

Sec. 19-135. Single billing.

Sec. 19-140. On-bill financing program; gas utilities.

Sec. 19-145. Automatic adjustment clause tariff; uncollectibles.

Sec. 20-101. This Article may be cited as the Retail Electric Competition Act of 2006.

Sec. 20-102. Findings and intent.

Sec. 20-105. Definitions.

Sec. 20-110. Office of Retail Market Development.

Sec. 20-120. Residential and small commercial retail electric competition.

Sec. 20-130. Retail choice and referral programs.

Sec. 21-100. Short title.

Sec. 21-1502. Renewal upon repeal of Article.

Sec. 21-1503. Continuation of Article; validation.

Sec. 21-1601. Repealer.

Sec. 22-501. Customer service and privacy protection.

Sec. 22-502. The provisions of this Article are a limitation of home rule powers under subsection (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.

Sec. 22-503. The provisions of this Article are severable under Section 1.

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