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91_SB1949
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Utilities Act by changing
2 Section 9-250 and adding Section 9-250.5.
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 9-250 and by adding Section 9-250.5 as
7 follows:
8 (220 ILCS 5/9-250) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 9-250)
9 Sec. 9-250. Rates and charges found to be unjust.
10 Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had upon its own
11 motion or upon complaint, shall find that the rates or other
12 charges, or classifications, or any of them, demanded,
13 observed, charged or collected by any public utility for any
14 service or product or commodity, or in connection therewith,
15 or that the rules, regulations, contracts, or practices or
16 any of them, affecting such rates or other charges, or
17 classifications, or any of them, are unjust, unreasonable,
18 discriminatory or preferential, or in any way in violation of
19 any provisions of law, or that such rates or other charges or
20 classifications are insufficient, the Commission shall
21 determine the just, reasonable or sufficient rates or other
22 charges, classifications, rules, regulations, contracts or
23 practices to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall
24 fix the same by order as hereinafter provided. Any rate or
25 schedule of rates of a carrier that imposes a minimum monthly
26 fee for interMSA toll services for customers who have not
27 signed up for any optional calling plan offered by a carrier
28 shall be deemed by the Commission not to be just or
29 reasonable because of the adverse impact those fees have on
30 customers who make few or no interMSA calls.
31 The Commission shall have power, upon a hearing, had upon
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1 its own motion or upon complaint, to investigate a single
2 rate or other charge, classification, rule, regulation,
3 contract or practice, or any number thereof, or the entire
4 schedule or schedules of rates or other charges,
5 classifications, rules, regulations, contracts and practices,
6 or any thereof of any public utility, and to establish new
7 rates or other charges, classifications, rules, regulations,
8 contracts or practices or schedule or schedules, in lieu
9 thereof.
10 (Source: P.A. 84-617; 84-1025.)
11 (220 ILCS 5/9-250.5 new)
12 Sec. 9.250.5. InterMSA and intraMSA rates. The
13 Commission shall have the power upon its own motion or upon
14 complaint to investigate and determine that any rates charged
15 by an interexchange carrier for intrastate interMSA and
16 intraMSA local toll calls are unjust and unreasonable if
17 those rates do not reflect all reductions effective on or
18 after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st
19 General Assembly in carrier access charges paid by the
20 interexchange carrier.