Chapter 220, UTILITIES

(220 ILCS 5/17-1000) Sec. 17-1000. Interconnection application fees for public schools. A municipal system or electric cooperative shall not charge an application fee to a public school for the interconnection of renewable generating facilities located on the public school's land…

(220 ILCS 5/17-200) Sec. 17-200. Election to provide existing or future customers access to alternative retail electric suppliers. (a) An electric cooperative or municipal system each may, by appropriate action and at the sole discretion of the governing body of each, from time t…

(220 ILCS 5/17-300) Sec. 17-300. Election to be an alternative retail electric supplier. (a) An electric cooperative or municipal system may, by appropriate action, and at the sole discretion of the governing body of each, make an election to become an alternative retail electric…

(220 ILCS 5/17-400) Sec. 17-400. Conditions prohibiting municipal system participation. At no time shall a municipal system make an election under Sections 17-200 or 17-300 of this Article if such election places at risk: (1) Any status held by the municipal system or municipal c…

(220 ILCS 5/17-500) Sec. 17-500. Jurisdiction. Except as provided in the Electric Supplier Act, the Illinois Municipal Code, and this Article XVII, the Commission, or any other agency or subdivision thereof of the State of Illinois or any private entity shall have no jurisdiction…

(220 ILCS 5/17-600) Sec. 17-600. Rights of electric cooperatives and municipal systems in conflict herewith. Except as expressly provided for herein, this Article XVII shall not be construed to conflict with the rights of an electric cooperative or a municipal system as declared …

(220 ILCS 5/17-700) Sec. 17-700. Right to create municipal utility unaffected. Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1997 shall limit the right of a municipality to form a municipal utility in accordance with Article 11, Division 117 of the Illinois Municipal Code and the provisions …

(220 ILCS 5/17-900) Sec. 17-900. Customer self-generation of electricity. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that municipal systems and electric cooperatives shall continue to be governed by their respective governing bodies, but that such governing bodies should recogni…

(220 ILCS 30/17.1) Sec. 17.1. Purpose. This Law authorizes certain electric cooperatives to deploy broadband infrastructure and to provide broadband service to residential and business locations within an electric cooperative's service territory. (Source: P.A. 104-426, eff. 8-15-…

(220 ILCS 30/17.2) Sec. 17.2. Definitions. As used in this Law: "Broadband grant recipient" means an electric cooperative that has received grant funding pursuant to any State or federal grant program with the purpose of expanding broadband deployment of and access to broadband s…

(220 ILCS 30/17.3) Sec. 17.3. Rights granted to electric cooperative broadband grant recipients. (a) In the grant service area, a broadband grant recipient, subject to the recipient's broadband grant, may access and use (i) any existing electric easement held or controlled by the…

(220 ILCS 30/17.4) Sec. 17.4. Notice and compensation. (a) The broadband grant recipient must notify the property owner in writing by sending notification to the property owner's address specified in the online or publicly available records of the applicable county assessor (i) b…

(220 ILCS 30/17.5) Sec. 17.5. Rights-of-way. Conditional upon acquiring the proper agreement or permit with the highway right-of-way controller or holder, a broadband grant recipient may install, maintain, and use broadband infrastructure below ground along a highway right-of-way…

(220 ILCS 30/17.6) Sec. 17.6. Labor standards and protection. Electric cooperative broadband grant recipients under this Law, including any contractors and subcontractors of the broadband grant recipient, performing work subject to this Law shall, when applicable, pay prevailing …

(220 ILCS 30/17.8) Sec. 17.8. Sunset. The rights and obligations of broadband project grant recipients and landowners set forth in this Law do not apply on and after January 1, 2030. (Source: P.A. 104-426, eff. 8-15-25.)

(220 ILCS 10/18) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 918) Sec. 18. Dissolution. The corporation may dissolve or be dissolved under the General Not for Profit Corporation Act. (Source: P.A. 83-945.)

(220 ILCS 5/18-101) Sec. 18-101. Short title and applicability. This Article may be cited as the Electric Utility Transitional Funding Law of 1997 and shall apply to electric utilities as defined in this Article. (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)

(220 ILCS 5/18-102) Sec. 18-102. Definitions. For the purposes of this Article the following terms shall be defined as set forth in this Section. Terms defined in Article XVI shall have the same meanings in this Article. "Assignee" means any party, other than an electric utility …

(220 ILCS 5/18-103) Sec. 18-103. Transitional funding orders. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or other law, the Commission is hereby authorized to issue transitional funding orders in accordance with the provisions of this Section, in order to facilitate (i) t…

(220 ILCS 5/18-104) Sec. 18-104. Terms and provisions of transitional funding orders. (a) Each transitional funding order shall create and establish intangible transition property in an amount not to exceed the sum of (i) the rate base established by the Commission in the electri…

(220 ILCS 5/18-105) Sec. 18-105. Intangible transition property. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or other law, the Commission is hereby authorized, in accordance with the application for a transitional funding order, to create, establish and grant rights in, t…

(220 ILCS 5/18-106) Sec. 18-106. Grantee instruments. (a) If an electric utility to which grantee instruments have been issued discontinues providing electric power and energy services prior to the maturity date of such grantee instruments, such electric utility shall not be enti…

(220 ILCS 5/18-107) Sec. 18-107. Security interests in intangible transition property and grantee instruments. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither intangible transition property, grantee instruments nor any right, title or interest therein, shall constitute pr…

(220 ILCS 5/18-108) Sec. 18-108. Characterization of transfer. A sale, assignment or other transfer of intangible transition property or grantee instruments which is expressly stated in the documents governing such transaction to be a sale or other absolute transfer, in a transac…

(220 ILCS 5/18-109) Sec. 18-109. Actions with respect to intangible transition property and related instrument funding charges. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or other law, any electric utility, issuer, assignee, grantee or holder shall be expressly permitted…

(220 ILCS 5/18-110) Sec. 18-110. Taxation of transfers of intangible transition property and grantee instruments. (a) Any sale, pledge, assignment or other transfer of intangible transition property and grantee instruments, if any, shall be exempt from any State or local sales, i…

(220 ILCS 5/18-111) Sec. 18-111. Limitations on issuance of transitional funding orders, collection of instrument funding charges, and use of proceeds from issuance of transitional funding instruments and grantee instruments. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article X…

(220 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 919) Sec. 19. Construction. (1) This Act, being necessary for the welfare of the State and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. (2) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the right of any person to…

(220 ILCS 5/19-100) Sec. 19-100. Short title. This Article may be cited as the Alternative Gas Supplier Law. (Source: P.A. 92-529, eff. 2-8-02.)

(220 ILCS 5/19-105) Sec. 19-105. Definitions. For the purposes of this Article, the following terms shall be defined as set forth in this Section. "Alternative gas supplier" means every person, cooperative, corporation, municipal corporation, company, association, joint stock com…

(220 ILCS 5/19-110) Sec. 19-110. Certification of alternative gas suppliers. (a) The provisions of this Section shall apply only to alternative gas suppliers serving or seeking to serve residential or small commercial customers and only to the extent such alternative gas supplier…

(220 ILCS 5/19-111) Sec. 19-111. Material changes in business. (a) The provisions of this Section shall apply only to alternative gas suppliers serving or seeking to serve residential or small commercial customers and only to the extent such alternative gas suppliers provide serv…

(220 ILCS 5/19-112) Sec. 19-112. Managerial resources. (a) An alternative gas supplier must maintain sufficient managerial resources and abilities to provide the service for which it has a certificate of service authority. In determining the level of managerial resources and abil…

(220 ILCS 5/19-115) Sec. 19-115. Obligations of alternative gas suppliers. (a) The provisions of this Section shall apply only to alternative gas suppliers serving or seeking to serve residential or small commercial customers and only to the extent such alternative gas suppliers …

(220 ILCS 5/19-116) Sec. 19-116. Alternative gas supplier utility assistance recipient. (a) Beginning January 1, 2020, an alternative gas supplier shall not knowingly submit an enrollment to change a customer's natural gas supplier if the gas utility's records indicate that the c…

(220 ILCS 5/19-120) Sec. 19-120. Commission oversight of services provided by gas suppliers. (a) The provisions of this Section shall apply only to alternative gas suppliers serving or seeking to serve residential or small commercial customers and only to the extent such alternat…

(220 ILCS 5/19-125) Sec. 19-125. Consumer education. (a) The Commission shall make available upon request and at no charge, and shall make available to the public on the Internet through the State of Illinois World Wide Web site: (1) a list of all certified alternative gas suppli…

(220 ILCS 5/19-130) Sec. 19-130. Commission study and report. The Commission's Office of Retail Market Development shall prepare an annual report regarding the development of competitive retail natural gas markets in Illinois. The Office shall monitor existing competitive conditi…

(220 ILCS 5/19-135) Sec. 19-135. Single billing. (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that in any service area where customers are able to choose their natural gas supplier, a single billing option shall be offered to customers for both the services provided by the altern…

(220 ILCS 5/19-140) Sec. 19-140. On-bill financing program; gas utilities. (a) The Illinois General Assembly finds that Illinois homes and businesses have the potential to save energy through conservation and cost-effective energy efficiency measures. Programs created pursuant to…

(220 ILCS 5/19-145) Sec. 19-145. Automatic adjustment clause tariff; uncollectibles. (a) A gas utility shall be permitted, at its election, to recover through an automatic adjustment clause tariff the incremental difference between its actual uncollectible amount as set forth in …

(220 ILCS 15/2) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 5502) Sec. 2. Before the right of condemnation may be exercised for the acquisition of property, or any interest therein, for underground storage of gas, said corporation shall make application to the Illinois Commerce Commission (hereafter …

(220 ILCS 20/2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 552) Sec. 2. As used in this Act, unless the context, otherwise requires, the terms specified in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 3 have the meanings ascribed to them in those Sections. (Source: P.A. 98-756, eff. 7-…

(220 ILCS 55/2) (from Ch. 134, par. 2) Sec. 2. Every such company may enter upon any lands for the purpose of making surveys and examinations with a view to the erection of any telegraph line, and take and damage private property for the erection and maintenance of such lines, an…

(220 ILCS 45/2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1552) Sec. 2. In addition to any other rulemaking authority they possess, the Illinois Commerce Commission created by the Public Utilities Act, the Office of the State Fire Marshal created by the State Fire Marshal Act, and the Illinois Eme…

(220 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 902) Sec. 2. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to promote the health, welfare and prosperity of all the citizens of this State by ensuring effective and democratic representation of utility consumers before the Illinois Commerce Commissio…

(220 ILCS 60/2) (from Ch. 134, par. 13) Sec. 2. For the purpose of constructing and maintaining such lines of telegraph or telephone, the parties in interest may set the necessary poles or posts on which to place the wires and insulators of such lines, in any of the public street…

(220 ILCS 66/2) (was 720 ILCS 660/2) Sec. 2. Any person who wilfully refuses to yield or surrender the use of a party line to another person for the purpose of permitting such other person to report a fire or summon police, medical or other aid in case of emergency, is guilty of …

(220 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 572) Sec. 2. In order to promote the more efficient use and distribution of natural gas and eliminate the necessity for construction of transmission facilities for gas produced or sought to be transported by a private energy entity separate…

(220 ILCS 50/2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602) Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context clearly otherwise requires, the terms specified in this Section have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section. "Approximate location" means the location of the marked f…