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 1        AN ACT in relation to public utilities.

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

 4        Section 5.   The  Public  Utilities  Act  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 5-109 as follows:

 6        (220 ILCS 5/5-109) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 5-109)
 7        Sec.  5-109. Each public utility in the State, other than
 8    a commercial mobile radio service provider, shall  each  year
 9    furnish  to  the  Commission,  in such form as the Commission
10    shall require, annual reports as to all the  items  mentioned
11    in  the  preceding  Sections of this Article, and in addition
12    such other items,  whether  of  a  nature  similar  to  those
13    therein  enumerated  or  otherwise,  as  the  Commission  may
14    prescribe.    Such  annual  reports  shall  contain  all  the
15    required information for the period of 12  to  twelve  months
16    ending  on  the thirtieth day of June in each year, or ending
17    on the thirty-first day of December  in  each  year,  as  the
18    Commission  may  by  order prescribe for each class of public
19    utilities, except commercial mobile radio service  providers,
20    and  shall  be  filed  with  the  Commission at its office in
21    Springfield within 3 three months after the close of the year
22    for which the report is  made.   The  Commission  shall  have
23    authority  to  require  any  public  utility  to file monthly
24    reports of earnings and expenses of such utility, and to file
25    other periodical or special, or both periodical  and  special
26    reports  concerning  any matter about which the Commission is
27    authorized by law to keep itself informed.  All reports shall
28    be under oath.
29        When any report is erroneous or defective or  appears  to
30    the  Commission  to be erroneous or defective, the Commission
31    may notify the public utility to amend such report within  30
 
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 1    thirty  days,  and  before  or  after the termination of such
 2    period the Commission may examine the  officers,  agents,  or
 3    employees,  and  books,  records,  accounts, vouchers, plant,
 4    equipment and property of such public  utility,  and  correct
 5    such  items  in  the  report  as  upon  such  examination the
 6    Commission may find defective or erroneous.
 7        All reports made to the Commission by any public  utility
 8    and  the contents thereof shall be open to public inspection,
 9    unless otherwise ordered by  the  Commission.   Such  reports
10    shall be preserved in the office of the Commission.
11        Any  public  utility  which  fails  to  make and file any
12    report  called  for  by  the  Commission  within   the   time
13    specified;  or  to  make  specific  answer  to  any  question
14    propounded  by  the Commission within 30 thirty days from the
15    time it is lawfully required to do so, or within such further
16    time, not to exceed 90 ninety days, as may in its  discretion
17    be  allowed  by  the Commission, shall forfeit up to $100 for
18    each and every day it may so be in  default  if  the  utility
19    collects less than $100,000 annually in gross revenue; and if
20    the  utility  collects  $100,000  or  more  annually in gross
21    revenue, it shall forfeit $100 per day for each and every day
22    it is in default.
23        Any person who wilfully makes any false return or  report
24    to  the  Commission,  or  to  any member, officer or employee
25    thereof, and any person who aids or abets such  person  shall
26    be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
27    (Source: P.A. 84-617.)

28        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
29    becoming law.