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 1        AN ACT relating to telecommunications.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The  Public  Utilities  Act  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 13-202 as follows:

 6        (220 ILCS 5/13-202) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-202)
 7        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
 8        Sec.      13-202.       Telecommunications       carrier.
 9    "Telecommunications   carrier"   means   and  includes  every
10    corporation, company, association,  joint  stock  company  or
11    association,  firm, partnership or individual, their lessees,
12    trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever  that
13    owns,  controls,  operates  or  manages,  within  this State,
14    directly or indirectly, for public use, any plant,  equipment
15    or  property used or to be used for or in connection with, or
16    owns or controls any franchise, license, permit or  right  to
17    engage  in  the  provision  of,  telecommunications  services
18    between  points  within  the State which are specified by the
19    user.  Telecommunications carrier does not include, however:
20        (a)  telecommunications  carriers  that  are  owned   and
21    operated  by  any  political  subdivision,  public or private
22    institution of higher education or municipal  corporation  of
23    this State, for their own use, or telecommunications carriers
24    that  are  owned  by  such  political  subdivision, public or
25    private  institution  of  higher  education,   or   municipal
26    corporation  and  operated by any of its lessees or operating
27    agents, for their own use;
28        (b)  telecommunications carriers which are purely  mutual
29    concerns, having no rates or charges for services, but paying
30    the operating expenses by assessment upon the members of such
31    a  company  and no other person but does include telephone or
 
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 1    telecommunications cooperatives as defined in Section 13-212;
 2        (c)  a    company    or     person     which     provides
 3    telecommunications   services   solely   to  itself  and  its
 4    affiliates or members or between points in the same building,
 5     or between closely  located  buildings,  affiliated  through
 6    substantial common ownership, control or development; or
 7        (d)  a  company  or  person  engaged  in  the delivery of
 8    community  antenna  television  services  as   described   in
 9    subdivision (c) of Section 13-203, except with respect to the
10    provision  of  telecommunications services by that company or
11    person.
12    (Source: P.A. 87-856.)

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