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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1563
Introduced 2/22/2007, by Rep. Eddie Washington SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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220 ILCS 5/8-302 |
from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-302 |
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall require that every public utility shall take an actual reading of a customer's service usage during each billing period, and that no utility may estimate a customer's service usage unless the customer has knowingly and willfully denied reasonable access to the utility's representative for the purpose of taking an actual meter reading. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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HB1563 |
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LRB095 09896 MJR 30107 b |
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 8-302 as follows:
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| (220 ILCS 5/8-302) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-302)
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| Sec. 8-302. |
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| (a) The Commission shall require that every public utility
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| furnishing natural or artificial gas, electricity or water to |
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| the public,
where the individual consumption is measured by |
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| meter, shall, upon written
request of any consumer, cause the |
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| meter reader at the time of reading such
consumer's meter to |
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| leave at such meter a card showing the present reading
of the |
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| meter, the last previous reading, and the dates of such two |
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| readings. |
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| (b) The Commission shall require that every public utility |
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| shall take an actual reading of a customer's service usage |
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| during each billing period, and that no utility may estimate a |
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| customer's service usage unless the customer has knowingly and |
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| willfully denied reasonable access to the utility's |
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| representative for the purpose of taking an actual meter |
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| reading.
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| (Source: P.A. 84-617.)
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