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220 ILCS 5/16-101

(220 ILCS 5/16-101)

Sec. 16-101.

Short title and applicability.

(a) This Article may
be cited as the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate
Relief Law of 1997 and shall apply to electric utilities and
alternative retail electric suppliers as defined in this
Article.  Except to the extent modified or supplemented by the
provisions of this Article, or where the context clearly
renders such provisions inapplicable, the other Articles of
the Public Utilities Act pertaining to public utilities, public utility rates
and services and the regulation thereof, are fully and equally
applicable to the tariffed services electric utilities
provide.

(b) The provisions of subsections (a) through (h) of Section 16-111 of this
Act shall not be applicable to any electric utility which elects to file
biennial rate proceedings before the Commission in the years 1998, 2000 and
2002.  An electric utility electing this option shall do so by filing a notice
of such election with the Commission within 60 days after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1997, or its right to make such election shall be
irrevocably waived.  An electric utility electing the option specified in this
paragraph shall file its rate proceeding with the Commission no later than
August 1 of the years 1998, 2000, and 2002.  The electric utility's filing
shall comply with all requirements of 83 Illinois Administrative Code Parts 255
and 285 as though the electric utility were filing for an increase in its
rates, without regard to whether such filing would produce an increase, a
decrease or no change in the electric utility's rates and the Commission shall
review the electric utility's filing and shall issue its
order in accordance with the provisions of Section 9-201 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)