(65 ILCS 20/21-44) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-44)
Sec. 21-44.
"Public utility" defined - Franchise from city council necessary for use of
streets or public ways.
The words "public utility" as used in this article shall mean and
include all public utilities engaged in the local transportation of
passengers for hire, except railroads constituting or used as a part of a
trunk line railroad system, and except interurban railroads whose principal
business is not that of local transportation of passengers within the city
of Chicago. No such public utility shall use or occupy any street or other
public way or public place within control of the city of Chicago without a
franchise or license from the city council, and any such public utility
using or occupying any such street or other public way or public place for
the transaction of its business pursuant to any authority other than a
franchise or license from the city council, which has not expired, shall
cease and desist from using or occupying any such street or other public
way or public place unless it shall have obtained a franchise or license
from the city council for such use or occupancy.
No such public utility shall continue to use or occupy any street or
other public way or public place within control of the city of Chicago
after the expiration of its franchise or license from the city council
unless the term of such franchise or license shall have been extended prior
to its expiration. Any such public utility which shall have subsisting a
franchise or license from the city of Chicago to use or occupy any street
or other public way or public place within control of the city of Chicago
shall have full power and authority to engage in and conduct its business
without any further authority or consent from the Illinois Commerce
Commission.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
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