(220 ILCS 5/16-125A)
Sec. 16-125A.
Consolidated billing provision for
established intergovernmental agreement
participants.
(a) The tariffs of each electric utility serving at least
1,000,000 customers shall permit governmental customers acting
through an intergovernmental agreement that was in effect 30 days
prior to the date specified in subsection (b) and which provides for these
governmental customers to work cooperatively in the purchase of electric energy
to aggregate their
monthly
kilowatt-hour energy usage and monthly kilowatt billing
demand.
(b) In implementing the provisions of this Section, the
rates and charges applicable under the combined billing tariff of
the serving utility in effect on May 1, 1997 shall apply to all
load of eligible government customers selected by the governmental
customers including, but not limited to, load served under
contract.
(c) For purposes of this Section, "governmental customers"
shall mean any customer that is
a municipality, municipal corporation,
unit of local government, park district, school district,
community college district, forest preserve district, special
district, public corporation, body politic and corporate,
sanitary or water reclamation district, or other local government
agencies, including any entity created by intergovernmental
agreement among any of the foregoing entities to implement the
arrangements permitted by subsections (a) and (b) of this
Section.
(d) Electric utilities shall file tariffs that comply with
the requirements of this Section within 60 days after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1997.
(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)
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