99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2200

 

Introduced 12/4/2015, by Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/5-12001.2

    Amends the Counties Code. Adds Will County to a pilot project concerning regulation of new telecommunication facilities.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
55-12001.2 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/5-12001.2)
7    Sec. 5-12001.2. Regulation of telecommunications
8facilities; Lake County and Will County pilot project. In
9addition to any other requirements under this Division
10concerning the regulation of telecommunications facilities,
11the following applies to any new telecommunications facilities
12in Lake County and Will County that are not AM
13telecommunications towers or facilities:
14        (a) For every new wireless telecommunications facility
15    requiring a new tower structure, a telecommunications
16    carrier shall provide the county with documentation
17    consisting of the proposed location, a site plan, and an
18    elevation that sufficiently describes a proposed wireless
19    facility location.
20        (b) The county shall have 7 days to review the facility
21    proposal and contact the telecommunications carrier in
22    writing via e-mail or other written means as specified by
23    the telecommunications carrier. This written communication

 

 

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1    shall either approve the proposed location or request a
2    meeting to review other possible alternative locations. If
3    requested, the meeting shall take place within 7 days after
4    the date of the written communication.
5        (c) At the meeting, the telecommunications carrier
6    shall provide the county documentation consisting of radio
7    frequency engineering criteria and a corresponding
8    telecommunications facility search ring map, together with
9    documentation of the carrier's efforts to site the proposed
10    facility within the telecommunications facility search
11    ring.
12        (d) Within 21 days after receipt of the carrier's
13    documentation, the county shall propose either an
14    alternative site within the telecommunications facility
15    search ring, or an alternative site outside of the
16    telecommunications search ring that meets the radio
17    frequency engineering criteria provided by the
18    telecommunications carrier and that will not materially
19    increase the construction budget beyond what was estimated
20    on the original carrier proposed site.
21        (e) If the county's proposed alternative site meets the
22    radio frequency engineering criteria provided by the
23    telecommunications carrier, and will not materially
24    increase the construction budget beyond what was estimated
25    on the original carrier proposed site, then the
26    telecommunications carrier shall agree to build the

 

 

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1    facility at the alternative location, subject to the
2    negotiation of a lease with commercially reasonable terms
3    and the obtainment of the customary building permits.
4        (f) If the telecommunications carrier can demonstrate
5    that: (i) the county's proposed alternative site does not
6    meet the radio frequency engineering criteria, (ii) the
7    county's proposed alternative site will materially
8    increase the construction budget beyond what was estimated
9    on the original carrier proposed site, (iii) the county has
10    failed to provide an alternative site, or (iv) after a
11    period of 90 days after receipt of the alternative site,
12    the telecommunications carrier has failed, after acting in
13    good faith and with due diligence, to obtain a lease or, at
14    a minimum, a letter of intent to lease the alternative site
15    at lease rates not materially greater than the lease rate
16    for the original proposed site; then the carrier can
17    proceed to permit and construct the site under the
18    provisions and standards of Section 5-12001.1 of this Code.
19(Source: P.A. 98-197, eff. 8-9-13; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)