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| Public Act 096-0435 |
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AN ACT concerning utilities.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | ||||
Section 19-105 as follows:
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(220 ILCS 5/19-105)
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Sec. 19-105. Definitions. For the purposes of this Article, | ||||
the following
terms shall be defined as set forth in this | ||||
Section.
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"Alternative gas supplier" means every person, | ||||
cooperative, corporation,
municipal corporation, company, | ||||
association, joint stock company or
association, firm,
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partnership, individual, or other entity, their lessees, | ||||
trustees, or receivers
appointed by
any court whatsoever, that | ||||
offers gas for sale, lease, or in exchange for other
value
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received to one or more customers, or that engages in the | ||||
furnishing of gas to
one or
more customers, and shall include | ||||
affiliated interests of a gas utility,
resellers,
aggregators | ||||
and marketers, but shall not include (i) gas utilities (or any
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agent of the gas
utility to the extent the gas utility provides | ||||
tariffed services to customers
through an
agent); (ii) public | ||||
utilities that are owned and operated by any political
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subdivision, public institution of higher education or | ||||
municipal corporation
of this State, or public utilities that | ||
are owned by a political
subdivision, public institution of | ||
higher education, or municipal corporation
and operated by any | ||
of its lessees or operating agents; (iii)
natural gas | ||
cooperatives that are not-for-profit corporations operated for
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the purpose of administering, on a cooperative basis, the
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furnishing of natural gas for the benefit of their members who
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are
consumers of natural gas; and (iv) the ownership or | ||
operation
of a facility that sells compressed natural gas at | ||
retail to the public for use
only as a motor vehicle fuel and | ||
the selling of compressed natural gas at
retail to the public | ||
for use only as a motor vehicle fuel.
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"Gas utility" means a public utility, as defined in Section | ||
3-105 of this
Act,
that
has a franchise, license, permit, or | ||
right to furnish or sell gas
or transportation services to
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customers within a service area.
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"Residential customer" means a customer who receives gas | ||
utility service for
household purposes distributed to a | ||
dwelling of 2 or fewer units which is
billed under
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residential rate or gas utility service for household purposes | ||
distributed to
a dwelling
unit or units which is billed under a | ||
residential rate and is registered by a
separate meter
for each | ||
dwelling unit.
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"Service area" means (i) the geographic area within which a | ||
gas utility was
lawfully entitled to provide gas to customers | ||
as of the effective date
of this
amendatory
Act of the 92nd | ||
General Assembly and includes (ii) the location of any
customer | ||
to
which the gas utility was lawfully providing gas utility | ||
services on such
effective date.
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"Single billing" means the combined billing of the services | ||
provided by both a natural gas utility and an alternative gas | ||
supplier to any customer who has enrolled in a customer choice | ||
program. | ||
"Small commercial customer" means a nonresidential retail | ||
customer of
a
natural gas utility
who is identified by the | ||
alternative gas supplier, prior
to becoming a customer of the | ||
alternative gas supplier, as
consuming 5,000 or fewer therms of | ||
natural gas
during the previous year; provided that any | ||
alternative gas
supplier may remove the customer from | ||
designation as a "small
commercial customer" if the customer | ||
consumes more than 5,000 therms
of natural gas in any calendar | ||
year after becoming a customer of the
alternative gas supplier.
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"Tariffed service" means a service provided to customers by | ||
a gas
utility as
defined by its rates on file with the | ||
Commission pursuant to the provisions of
Article IX
of this | ||
Act.
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"Transportation services" means those services provided by | ||
the gas utility
that
are necessary in order for the storage, | ||
transmission and distribution systems
to
function so that
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customers located in the gas utility's service area can receive | ||
gas from
suppliers other
than the gas utility and shall | ||
include, without limitation, standard metering
and billing
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services.
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(Source: P.A. 94-738, eff. 5-4-06.)
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