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90_HB0598
815 ILCS 505/2EE new
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
Practices Act. Provides that an Internet service provider
must give each of its customers in this State the option of
canceling service on 10 days' notice to the Internet service
provider. Provides that an Internet service provider must
provide the customer with a form and a pre-addressed envelope
that the customer may use to cancel service by U.S. Postal
Service mail. Specifies methods for providing the form and
pre-addressed envelope to the customer. Provides that an
Internet service provider who violates any of these
provisions commits an unlawful practice within the meaning of
the Act.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
2 Practices Act by adding Section 2EE.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
6 Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2EE as follows:
7 (815 ILCS 505/2EE new)
8 Sec. 2EE. Internet service providers. An Internet
9 service provider must give each of its customers in this
10 State the option of canceling service on 10 days' notice to
11 the Internet service provider. The Internet service provider
12 must provide the customer with a form and a pre-addressed
13 envelope that the customer may use to cancel service by U.S.
14 Postal Service mail. In the case of any customer who is
15 billed by U.S. Postal Service Mail for each billing period,
16 the Internet service provider must include the form and the
17 pre-addressed envelope with each bill sent to the customer.
18 In the case of any customer who is billed by means of
19 electronic mail reminders or who is automatically billed by
20 credit card, automatic bank account deduction, or some other
21 automatic method, the Internet service provider must provide
22 the form and the pre-addressed envelope to the customer
23 within 10 days after the account is opened (or, in the case
24 of any existing customer, within 10 days after the effective
25 date of this amendatory Act of 1997). An Internet service
26 provider who violates any provision of this Section commits
27 an unlawful practice within the meaning of this Act.
28 As used in this Section, "Internet service provider"
29 means a person who provides to a customer, for a fee or
30 charge, access (regardless of whether the access is through
31 an online service that provides other services that are not
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1 part of the Internet) on an ongoing basis to Internet
2 electronic mail, the World Wide Web, Internet file transfers,
3 or any other information or data that may be sent or received
4 through the Internet.