Illinois Administrative Code

Section 469.20 Applicability After January 1, 2014, with the exception of a self-installer, all persons or entities that install, maintain or repair electric vehicle charging stations in the State of Illinois shall be certified by the Commission under this Part prior to installin…

Section 469.30 Application Procedures a) The applicant shall file its application for certification under this Part and provide all information required by this Part. b) Contents of documents filed by applicants shall be consistent with Subpart B of the Commission's Rules of Prac…

Section 469.40 Required Application Information Applications for certification under this Part shall contain the following information: a) The applicant's name (including d/b/a, if any), street address, telephone number, facsimile number, website and e-mail address. The applicant…

Section 469.50 Certification Requirements An applicant shall be certified if its application satisfies the following requirements. a) The applicant certifies that it will remain in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and Commission rules and orders including, but …

Section 469.60 Certifications Conditioned Upon Compliance Each certification issued to an applicant is conditioned upon compliance with the provisions of this Part and Sections 16-128(a) and 16-128A of the Act. Violation of this Part or the Act make the IMR subject to penalties, …

Section 469.70 Annual Recertification and Reporting a) A certificate holder shall recertify annually to remain in good standing with the Commission. Recertification involves submitting a Recertification Report that includes the information required by subsection (c) of this Secti…

Section 469.80 Complaint Procedures Complaints shall be filed in conformance with 83 Ill. Adm. Code 200.160, 200.170 and 83 Ill. Adm. Code 280.170. The complaint shall comply with the Commission's Rules of Practice (83 Ill. Adm. Code 200).

Section 469.90 Commission Oversight a) Upon complaint or on the Commission's own motion, the Commission may investigate any and all activities subject to this Part or Sections 16-128(a) and 16-128A of the Act, including violations of this Part or of Sections 16-128(a) and 16-128A…

Section 506.10 Maintenance of Books and Records and Commission Access a) Gas utilities shall maintain all accounts, irrespective of whether the activity, transaction, or other matter being accounted for constitutes public utility business, in accordance with 83 Ill. Adm. Code 505…

Section 506.20 Cost Allocation Guidelines a) Written guidelines for allocating revenues and charges between the public utility business and the business other than public utility business shall be submitted to the Director of Accounting of the Commission for approval by February …

Section 506.30 Internal Audits a) Public utilities shall conduct biennial internal audits, or internal audits conducted by independent public accountants, of the accounting, for the business other than public utility business. These audits shall test compliance with this Part, wi…

Section 510.10 Scope of This Part a) This Part applies to all books of account and other records prepared by or on behalf of the public utility. See Item 73 of Appendix A for those records which come into possession of the public utility in connection with the acquisition of prop…

Section 510.100 "Commission" "Commission," as used hereafter in Appendix A, refers to the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Section 510.20 Designation of Supervisory Official Each public utility subject to this Part shall designate one or more persons with official responsibility to supervise the utility's program for the preservation and the authorized destruction of its records.

Section 510.30 Protection and Storage of Records The public utility shall provide reasonable protection for records subject to this Part from damage by fires, floods and other hazards; and, in the selection of storage spaces, safeguard the records from unnecessary exposure to det…

Section 510.40 Index of Records All records which are herein required to be preserved shall be so arranged, filed and currently indexed by the utility that they may readily be identified and made available to representatives of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Section 510.50 Preservation of Records on Microfilm a) Certain records indicated in Appendix A may be microfilmed and such film retained in lieu of the original records, provided the procedures prescribed herein are followed. b) Indicators are used in Appendix A to designate thos…

Section 510.60 Destruction of Records The destruction of the records permitted to be destroyed under the provisions of this Part may be performed in any manner elected by the public utility concerned. Precautions should be taken, however, to macerate or otherwise destroy the legi…

Section 510.70 Premature Destruction or Loss of Records When any records are destroyed before the expiration of the prescribed period of retention, a certified statement listing, as far as may be determined, the records destroyed and describing the circumstances of accidental or …

Section 510.80 Retention Periods Designated "Destroy at Option" Use of the retention period "Destroy at option" in this Part constitutes authorization for such optional destruction under the conditions specified for the particular types of records, unless such records are necessa…

Section 510.90 Schedule of Records and Periods of Retention Appendix A annexed hereto shows the periods of time that designated records shall be preserved, and the records for which microfilms may be substituted therefor, in accordance with the foregoing instructions. It is not i…

Section 510.APPENDIX A Schedule of Records and Periods of Retention Description of Records Period to be Retained CORPORATE AND GENERAL 1. Capital stock records: (a) Capital stock ledgers or other records showing the same information. 7 years after the stockholder's account is clo…

Section 520.10 Training Procedures a) In order to reasonably assure the safety and well being of the populace, each natural gas system operator in Illinois shall develop training procedures which will assure that its field employees engaged in construction, operation, inspection …

Section 520.20 Definitions As used in this Part, unless the context requires otherwise, the terms defined in Sections 520.10 through 520.30, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed therein.

Section 520.30 "Natural Gas System" "Natural Gas System" means transmission or distribution facilities that transport natural gas as defined in Sections 1-3 of the Illinois Gas Pipeline Safety Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 111⅔, pars. 551-553).

Section 525.10 Applicability a) The Gas Charge(s) shall be applied to all therms associated with the service classifications so identified in the filed rate schedules of all gas public utilities operating in the State of Illinois. If a utility elects to establish separate Gas Cha…

Section 525.20 Definitions "Base period" shall mean the effective month or the remaining months in the reconciliation year which includes the effective month. "Effective month" shall mean the month following the filing month, during which the Gas Charge(s) will be in effect. "Fil…

Section 525.30 Cost Basis The Gas Charge(s) shall represent the utility's estimate of recoverable gas costs (as prescribed in Section 525.40) to be incurred during the base period, with an adjustment to such costs through use of Adjustment Factors (as prescribed in Sections 525.5…

Section 525.40 Recoverable Gas Costs a) Costs recoverable through the Gas Charge(s) shall include the following: 1) costs of natural gas and any solid, liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons purchased for injection into the gas stream or purchased as feedstock or fuel for the manufacture…

Section 525.50 Adjustments to Gas Costs a) The Adjustment Factor (Factor A) shall be treated as an addition to or an offset against actual gas costs. This Adjustment Factor shall include the total of the following items: 1) refunds, directly billed pipeline surcharges, unamortize…

Section 525.60 Determination of Gas Charge(s) a) Each month the utility shall determine the Gas Charge(s) to be placed into effect for service rendered or billed during the effective month. b) The Gas Charge(s) shall be determined in accordance with the following formula: GC = (G…

Section 525.70 Annual Reconciliation a) In conjunction with a docketed reconciliation proceeding, the utility shall file with the Commission an annual reconciliation statement, which shall be certified by the utility's independent public accountants and verified by an officer of …

Section 530.10 Standards a) Natural gas ("gas"), as defined in Section 1.07 of "AN ACT to provide for the use of gas transmission facilities by energy entities," (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 111 ⅔, par. 571.07) produced from wells in Illinois (including methane produced from the an…

Section 530.15 Other Compounds The gas, before and after burning, shall not contain the following compounds in excess of listed concentrations in parts per million. Compound Concentration Pentane 600 Hexane 50 Benzene 10 Iso-octane 300 Methylbenzene 100 Ethylbenzene 100 m,p-xylen…

Section 530.20 Delivery Requirements Natural gas delivered by the private energy entities for transportation by a utility shall meet the following conditions: a) The transportation of the gas for a private energy entity by the utility shall not result in increased revenue require…

Section 530.30 Rights of Parties a) The utility will have the right to refuse the delivery and transportation of private energy entity's gas if any of the requirements specified in Section 530.10, 530.15 or 530.20 are not met. b) The energy entity shall have the right to challeng…

Section 550.10 Definitions "Act" means the Public Utilities Act [220 ILCS 5]. "Affiliated interest" has the same meaning as in Section 7-101(2) of the Act. "Affiliated interests in competition with alternative retail gas suppliers" shall include affiliated alternative retail gas …

Section 550.100 Independent Functioning Except in relation to corporate support and emergency support, gas utilities and affiliated interests in competition with ARGS that provide services to customers within the utility's service territory shall function independently of each ot…

Section 550.110 Employees a) Except in relation to corporate support and emergency support, gas utilities and their affiliated interests in competition with ARGS shall not jointly employ or otherwise share the same employees. b) Gas utilities shall not jointly employ or otherwise…

Section 550.120 Transfer of Goods and Services a) Transactions between a gas utility and its affiliated interests shall not be allowed to subsidize the affiliated interests. b) Costs associated with the transfer of goods and services between a gas utility and its affiliated inter…

Section 550.130 List of Affiliated Interests a) Each gas utility shall maintain an accurate list of all its affiliated interests. This list shall include the name and address of each affiliated interest and the name and business telephone number of at least one officer of each af…

Section 550.140 Maintenance of Books and Records and Commission Access a) A gas utility shall maintain books, accounts, and records separate from those of its affiliated interests. b) Upon the request of the Commission, gas utilities shall make personnel available who are compete…

Section 550.150 Internal Audits a) Gas utilities shall conduct biennial internal audits or have internal audits conducted by independent public accountants on transactions with affiliated interests. These audits shall test compliance with this Part, with any applicable Commission…

Section 550.160 Complaint Procedures Complaints alleging violations of this Part shall be filed pursuant to 83 Ill. Adm. Code 200.

Section 550.20 Non-Discrimination a) Gas utilities shall not provide affiliated interests or customers of affiliated interests preferential treatment or advantages relative to unaffiliated entities or their customers in connection with services provided under tariffs on file with…

Section 550.30 Marketing and Advertising a) A gas utility shall neither jointly advertise nor jointly market its services or products with those of an affiliated interest in competition with ARGS. b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed as prohibiting an affiliated intere…

Section 550.40 Tying Gas utilities shall not tie, as defined by State and federal anti-trust laws, the provision of any services to the taking of any goods and services from the gas utilities' affiliated interests.

Section 550.50 Release, Assignment, Transfer, and Brokering of Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline and Storage Services Except to the extent reserved to the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), gas utilities shall not grant preferences r…

Section 550.60 Nondiscriminatory Provision of Information to Unaffiliated Entities Employees of the gas utility's affiliated interests in competition with ARGS shall not have preferential access to any information about the gas utility's distribution systems.

Section 550.70 Customer Information Gas utilities shall not provide any preferences to affiliated interests in the release of billing and usage data.