(220 ILCS 5/8-501) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-501)
Sec. 8-501.
Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion
or upon complaint, shall find that the rules, regulations, practices,
equipment, appliances, facilities or service of any public utility, or the
methods of manufacture, distribution, transmission, storage or supply
employed by it, are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper, inadequate or
insufficient, the Commission shall determine the just, reasonable, safe,
proper, adequate or sufficient rules, regulations, practices, equipment,
appliances, facilities, service or methods to be observed, furnished,
constructed, enforced or employed and it shall fix the same by its order,
decision, rule or regulation. The Commission shall prescribe rules and
regulations for the performance of any service or the furnishing of any
commodity of the character furnished or supplied by any public utility.
Whenever the Commission shall determine, after a hearing, that the public
convenience and necessity requires that interconnection or extension of
intrastate gas distribution or transmission pipelines or facilities is
necessary to insure that natural gas service is made available to Illinois
natural gas customers at rates which are just and reasonable, the
Commission shall determine the interconnection or extension of pipelines or
facilities which is necessary to provide such service and shall direct that
such facilities be established, according to a schedule set by the Commission.
The Commission shall direct that any utility supplying natural gas for such
interconnection or extension of intrastate gas distribution or transmission
pipelines or facilities shall recover all costs and charges related to the
interconnection or extension from the utility receiving such gas at no
increased cost to the customers of any utility supplying the gas. The
Commission is directed to report to the General Assembly by September 20,
1984, detailing its findings and the steps which it has taken to provide
for such intrastate interconnections or extensions.
(Source: P.A. 84-617.)
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