Public Act 103-0716
 
HB5459 EnrolledLRB103 35747 LNS 65828 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing 
Section 5-106 as follows:
 
    (220 ILCS 5/5-106)  (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 5-106)
    Sec. 5-106. Each public utility shall have an office in 
one of the cities, villages or incorporated towns in this 
State in which its property or some part thereof is located, 
and shall keep in said office all such books, accounts, 
papers, records and memoranda as shall be ordered by the 
Commission to be kept within the State. The address of such 
office shall be filed with the Commission. No books, accounts, 
papers, records or memoranda ordered by the Commission to be 
kept within the State shall be at any time removed from the 
State, except upon such conditions as may be prescribed by the 
Commission.
    Each public utility shall be liable for, and upon proper 
invoice from the Commission shall promptly reimburse the 
Commission for, the reasonable costs and expenses associated 
with the audit or inspection of any books, accounts, papers, 
records and memoranda kept outside the State.
    In the case of a public utility that provides drinking 
water services, upon the request of a municipal wastewater 
agency or unit of local government organized under the 
Sanitary District Act of 1907, the North Shore Water 
Reclamation District Act, the Sanitary District Act of 1917, 
the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act, the Sanitary 
District Act of 1936, the Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 
1974, or the Eastern Will Sanitary District Act, such public 
utility shall provide timely and accurate water usage data, in 
a format identifiable to the requester, for purposes of 
calculating wastewater billings. The public utility shall be 
entitled to collect its reasonable costs incurred to provide 
such data. 
(Source: P.A. 84-617.)