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| 1 | AN ACT concerning utilities.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 19-105 as follows:
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| 6 | (220 ILCS 5/19-105)
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| 7 | Sec. 19-105. Definitions. For the purposes of this Article, | ||||||
| 8 | the following
terms shall be defined as set forth in this | ||||||
| 9 | Section.
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| 10 | "Alternative gas supplier" means every person, | ||||||
| 11 | cooperative, corporation,
municipal corporation, company, | ||||||
| 12 | association, joint stock company or
association, firm,
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| 13 | partnership, individual, or other entity, their lessees, | ||||||
| 14 | trustees, or receivers
appointed by
any court whatsoever, that | ||||||
| 15 | offers gas for sale, lease, or in exchange for other
value
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| 16 | received to one or more customers, or that engages in the | ||||||
| 17 | furnishing of gas to
one or
more customers, and shall include | ||||||
| 18 | affiliated interests of a gas utility,
resellers,
aggregators | ||||||
| 19 | and marketers, but shall not include (i) gas utilities (or any
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| 20 | agent of the gas
utility to the extent the gas utility provides | ||||||
| 21 | tariffed services to customers
through an
agent); (ii) public | ||||||
| 22 | utilities that are owned and operated by any political
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| 23 | subdivision, public institution of higher education or | ||||||
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| 1 | municipal corporation
of this State, or public utilities that | ||||||
| 2 | are owned by a political
subdivision, public institution of | ||||||
| 3 | higher education, or municipal corporation
and operated by any | ||||||
| 4 | of its lessees or operating agents; (iii)
natural gas | ||||||
| 5 | cooperatives that are not-for-profit corporations operated for
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| 6 | the purpose of administering, on a cooperative basis, the
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| 7 | furnishing of natural gas for the benefit of their members who
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| 8 | are
consumers of natural gas; and (iv) the ownership or | ||||||
| 9 | operation
of a facility that sells compressed natural gas at | ||||||
| 10 | retail to the public for use
only as a motor vehicle fuel and | ||||||
| 11 | the selling of compressed natural gas at
retail to the public | ||||||
| 12 | for use only as a motor vehicle fuel.
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| 13 | "Gas utility" means a public utility, as defined in Section | ||||||
| 14 | 3-105 of this
Act,
that
has a franchise, license, permit, or | ||||||
| 15 | right to furnish or sell gas
or transportation services to
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| 16 | customers within a service area.
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| 17 | "Residential customer" means a customer who receives gas | ||||||
| 18 | utility service for
household purposes distributed to a | ||||||
| 19 | dwelling of 2 or fewer units which is
billed under
a | ||||||
| 20 | residential rate or gas utility service for household purposes | ||||||
| 21 | distributed to
a dwelling
unit or units which is billed under a | ||||||
| 22 | residential rate and is registered by a
separate meter
for each | ||||||
| 23 | dwelling unit.
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| 24 | "Service area" means (i) the geographic area within which a | ||||||
| 25 | gas utility was
lawfully entitled to provide gas to customers | ||||||
| 26 | as of the effective date
of this
amendatory
Act of the 92nd | ||||||
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| 1 | General Assembly and includes (ii) the location of any
customer | ||||||
| 2 | to
which the gas utility was lawfully providing gas utility | ||||||
| 3 | services on such
effective date.
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| 4 | "Single billing" means the combined billing of the services | ||||||
| 5 | provided by both a natural gas utility and an alternative gas | ||||||
| 6 | supplier to any customer who has enrolled in a customer choice | ||||||
| 7 | program. | ||||||
| 8 | "Small commercial customer" means a nonresidential retail | ||||||
| 9 | customer of
a
natural gas utility
who is identified by the | ||||||
| 10 | alternative gas supplier, prior
to becoming a customer of the | ||||||
| 11 | alternative gas supplier, as
consuming 5,000 or fewer therms of | ||||||
| 12 | natural gas
during the previous year; provided that any | ||||||
| 13 | alternative gas
supplier may remove the customer from | ||||||
| 14 | designation as a "small
commercial customer" if the customer | ||||||
| 15 | consumes more than 5,000 therms
of natural gas in any calendar | ||||||
| 16 | year after becoming a customer of the
alternative gas supplier.
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| 17 | "Tariffed service" means a service provided to customers by | ||||||
| 18 | a gas
utility as
defined by its rates on file with the | ||||||
| 19 | Commission pursuant to the provisions of
Article IX
of this | ||||||
| 20 | Act.
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| 21 | "Transportation services" means those services provided by | ||||||
| 22 | the gas utility
that
are necessary in order for the storage, | ||||||
| 23 | transmission and distribution systems
to
function so that
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| 24 | customers located in the gas utility's service area can receive | ||||||
| 25 | gas from
suppliers other
than the gas utility and shall | ||||||
| 26 | include, without limitation, standard metering
and billing
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| 1 | services.
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| 2 | (Source: P.A. 94-738, eff. 5-4-06.)
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