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90_SB1460
220 ILCS 5/17-300
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical
change in a Section concerning alternative retail electric
suppliers.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Utilities Act by changing
2 Section 17-300.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by
6 changing Section 17-300 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/17-300)
8 Sec. 17-300. Election to be an alternative retail
9 electric supplier.
10 (a) An electric cooperative or municipal system may, by
11 appropriate action, and at the sole discretion of the
12 governing body of each, make an election to become an
13 alternative retail electric supplier.
14 (b) Commission authority over an electric cooperative or
15 municipal system electing to be an alternative retail
16 electric supplier. An electric cooperative or municipal
17 system electing to be an alternative retail electric supplier
18 shall provide those services in accordance with Sections
19 16-115A and 16-115B of this Act, to the extent that these
20 Sections have application to the services being offered by
21 the electric cooperative or municipal system as an
22 alternative retail electric supplier. In no case shall these
23 provisions apply to the existing or future customers taking
24 delivery services from an electric cooperative or municipal
25 system pursuant to their respective authority under the
26 Electric Supplier Act or the Illinois Municipal Code.
27 (c) Notification of election to be an alternative retail
28 electric supplier. Upon filing notice of intent by an
29 electric cooperative or a municipal system to become an
30 alternative retail electric supplier, the Illinois Commerce
31 Commission shall issue within 45 days a certificate of
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1 service authority for the entire State or for a specified
2 geographic area of the State, as specified in the notice.
3 Issuance of a certificate of service authority shall
4 constitute compliance with Section 16-115 of this Act.
5 (d) Delivery services provided by electric cooperatives
6 or municipal systems. Municipal systems or electric
7 cooperatives making an election under this Section shall be
8 required to provide delivery services on their respective
9 systems to the electric utility or utilities in whose service
10 area or areas the proposed service will be offered. Such
11 required delivery services to be provided by the electric
12 cooperatives and municipal systems shall be reasonably
13 comparable to the delivery services provided to the electric
14 cooperative's and municipal system's own customers.
15 (e) Exclusive authority over distribution facilities.
16 Provided that, and subject to their authority to serve
17 customers pursuant to the Electric Supplier Act with respect
18 to electric cooperatives and pursuant to the Illinois
19 Municipal Code with respect to municipal systems, each shall
20 continue to provide the exclusive distribution facilities for
21 any existing and future customers that the electric
22 cooperative or municipal system is now or in the future
23 otherwise entitled to serve, and which customers are now or
24 in the future receiving service provided by an alternative
25 retail electric supplier.
26 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)