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90_HB0865
New Act
765 ILCS 205/3 from Ch. 109, par. 3
Creates the Tenant Telecommunication Freedom Act.
Prohibits leases between landlords and tenants from
containing provisions that restrict a tenant's choice of
telecommunications carrier. Amends the Plat Act to provide
that any portion of platted premises that is designated as a
way or easement for public service facilities, utility
facilities, or community antenna television services shall be
deemed an easement granted to every provider of utility
services authorized to provide services. Effective
immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning access to telecommunications services.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Tenant Telecommunications Freedom Act.
6 Section 5. No lease or other agreement hereafter entered
7 into between a landlord and a tenant in this State shall
8 prohibit or restrict the tenant from selecting
9 telecommunications carriers of the tenant's choice for the
10 provision of services to the leased premises, and no such
11 prohibition or restriction shall be made a condition
12 precedent to entering into such an agreement with any such
13 tenant.
14 Section 90. The Plat Act is amended by changing Section
15 3 as follows:
16 (765 ILCS 205/3) (from Ch. 109, par. 3)
17 Sec. 3. The acknowledgment and recording of such plat, or
18 the acknowledgment and the filing of the same shall be held
19 in all courts to be a conveyance in fee simple of such
20 portions of the premises platted as are marked or noted on
21 such plat as donated or granted to the public, or any person,
22 religious society, corporation or body politic, and as a
23 general warranty against the donor, his or her heirs and
24 representatives, to such donee or grantee, for their use or
25 for the use and purposes therein named or intended, and for
26 no other use or purpose; and the premises intended for any
27 street, alley, way, common or other public use in any city,
28 village or town, or addition thereto, shall be held in the
29 corporate name thereof in trust to and for the uses and
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1 purposes set forth or intended. Any portion of the premises
2 platted that is marked or noted on such plat as a way or
3 easement for public service facilities or utility or
4 community antenna television services shall be deemed a way
5 or easement granted to every provider of utility (including
6 telecommunications) services or community antenna television
7 services then or thereafter authorized to provide such
8 services within the relevant jurisdiction.
9 (Source: P.A. 83-345.)
10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law.