Public Act 095-0323
 		





SB0088 Enrolled
LRB095 04104 RLC 24493 b






    AN ACT concerning criminal law.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:


 
    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended  by changing 
Section 16-14 as follows:
 



    (720 ILCS 5/16-14)  (from Ch. 38, par. 16-14)



    Sec. 16-14. (a) A person commits the offense of unlawful 
interference
with public utility services when he or she

knowingly, without the consent of the
owner of the services, 
impairs or interrupts any public water, gas or power
supply, 
telecommunications service, wireless service, or other public 
services, or diverts,
or causes to be diverted in whole or in 
part, any public water, gas, or power
supply, 
telecommunications service, wireless service, or other public 
services, or installs or
removes any device for the purpose of 
such diversion, or knowingly delays restoration of such public 
services, as a result of the person's theft of wire used for 
such services.

    (b) The terms "public water, gas, or power supply, or other 
public services
service"
mean any service subject to regulation 
by the Illinois Commerce Commission;
any service furnished by a 
public utility that is owned and operated by
any political 
subdivision, public institution of higher education or 
municipal
corporation of this State; any service furnished by 
any public
utility that is owned by such political subdivision, 
public institution
of higher education, or municipal 
corporation and operated by any of its
lessees or operating 
agents; and any service furnished by an electric
cooperative  as 
defined in Section 3.4 of the Electric Supplier Act; or 
wireless service or other service regulated by the Federal 
Communications Commission.

    (c) Any instrument, apparatus, or device used in obtaining 
utility
services without paying the full charge therefore or 
any meter that has been
altered, tampered with, or bypassed so 
as to cause a lack of measurement or
inaccurate measurement of 
utility services on premises controlled by the
customer or by 
the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility

service at that location shall raise a rebuttable presumption 
of the commission
of the offense described in subparagraph (a) 
by such person.

    (d) (1) A person convicted of unlawful interference with 
public utility
services is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor 
unless the offense was committed
for remuneration, in which 
case it is a Class 4 felony.

    (2) After a first conviction of unlawful interference with 
public
utility services any subsequent conviction shall be a 
Class 4 felony.
    (3) If the disruption of the public utility services or the 
delay in the restoration of the public utility services occurs 
to 10 or more customers or affects an area of more than one 
square mile, unlawful interference with public utility

services is a Class 2 felony.


(Source: P.A. 88-75.)