Chapter 220, UTILITIES

(220 ILCS 10/5.1) Sec. 5.1. Contributions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 5 of this Act, the corporation shall have the authority to solicit and accept contributions made pursuant to Section 16-111.1 of the Public Utilities Act. (Source: P.A. 91-50, eff. 6-30…

(220 ILCS 50/5.1) Sec. 5.1. Positive response system. (a) Beginning January 1, 2026, an excavator shall confirm through the positive response system prior to excavation or demolition that all underground utility facility owners or operators that are identified on the notice have …

(220 ILCS 50/5.2) Sec. 5.2. Planning design request. (a) An underground utility facility owner or operator shall have the following responsibilities: (1) respond to a valid planning design request within 10 days after receiving the request or by such other date as shall be mutual…

(220 ILCS 50/5.3) Sec. 5.3. Joint meet notification. (a) A joint meet notification shall include the following information: (1) the excavator's name, address, phone number at which the excavator can be reached, and, if available, a fax number and email address; (2) the county and…

(220 ILCS 50/5.4) Sec. 5.4. Geographic information system data. Geographic information system data shall be provided to JULIE by any county or State agency that has provided substantially similar data to any other not-for-profit or State agency utilizing such data for public disp…

(220 ILCS 32/50) Sec. 50. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 103-1066, eff. 2-20-25; text omitted.)

(220 ILCS 32/55) Sec. 55. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 103-1066, eff. 2-20-25; text omitted.)

(220 ILCS 35/6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1006) Sec. 6. Record of Utility Deposit. A utility shall maintain records of deposits together with interest, which collectively will show all transactions pertaining to each deposit. A utility shall provide the applicant with a Certificate…

(220 ILCS 10/6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 906) Sec. 6. Board. The corporation shall be managed by, and its powers, functions and duties shall be exercised through a board to be composed as follows: (1) Election and Terms of Directors. The Citizens Utility Board Districts shall be d…

(220 ILCS 30/6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 406) Sec. 6. Any 2 or more electric suppliers may contract together defining and delineating, as between themselves, one or more service areas in which each such contracting supplier shall be entitled to furnish service. Such contracts are …

(220 ILCS 25/6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 576) Sec. 6. Nothing in this Act is to preclude a joinder of public utilities in applications filed pursuant to Section 3 of this Act for the successive transportation of natural gas by such public utilities or the joinder of such applicati…

(220 ILCS 55/6) (from Ch. 134, par. 6) Sec. 6. If any company or person owning or operating any telegraph line in this state shall refuse to receive any dispatch from any other company or person owning or operating any telegraph line in this state, or shall refuse or willfully ne…

(220 ILCS 50/6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1606) Sec. 6. Emergency excavation or demolition. (a) Every excavator who engages in emergency excavation or demolition shall take all reasonable precautions to avoid or minimize interference between the emergency work and existing faciliti…

(220 ILCS 40/6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1206) Sec. 6. Office. The Governor, or his designee, shall locate office space for the Small Business Utility Advocate. The Advocate's office and any staff shall be considered a part of that office originally created pursuant to Executive O…

(220 ILCS 20/6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 556) Sec. 6. (a) Each person who engages in the transportation of gas or who owns or operates pipeline facilities shall: (1) at all times after the date any applicable safety standard established under this Act takes effect comply with the …

(220 ILCS 15/6) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 5506) Sec. 6. Upon receiving an order approving such gas storage project, such corporation shall have the right to utilize for the storage project so approved any geological stratum or formation required thereby, lying more than five hundred…

(220 ILCS 5/6-101) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 6-101) Sec. 6-101. The power of public utilities to issue stocks, stock certificates, bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness and to create liens on their property is a special privilege, the right of supervision, regulation, re…

(220 ILCS 5/6-102) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 6-102) Sec. 6-102. Authorization of issues of stock. (a) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of the order of the Commission issued as provided in this Act, a public utility may issue stocks and stock certificates, and bonds, notes …

(220 ILCS 5/6-103) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 6-103) Sec. 6-103. The capitalization of a public utility formed by a merger or consolidation of two or more corporations shall be subject to the approval of the Commission, but in no event shall the Commission approve a capitalization e…

(220 ILCS 5/6-104) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 6-104) Sec. 6-104. All stock and every stock certificate, and every bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness, of a public utility, not payable within twelve months issued without an order of the Commission authorizing the same then i…

(220 ILCS 5/6-105) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 6-105) Sec. 6-105. Every public utility which, directly or indirectly, issues or causes to be issued, any stock, stock certificate, bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness, in non-conformity with the order of the Commission authoriz…

(220 ILCS 5/6-106) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 6-106) Sec. 6-106. Every officer, agent or employee of a public utility, and every other person who knowingly authorizes, directs, issues or executes, causes to be issued or executed, or aids in the issue or execution of any stock, stock…

(220 ILCS 5/6-107) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 6-107) Sec. 6-107. No provisions of this Act, and no deed or act done or performed under or in connection therewith, shall be held or construed to obligate the State of Illinois to pay or guarantee, in any manner whatsoever, any stock or…

(220 ILCS 5/6-108) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 6-108) Sec. 6-108. The Commission shall charge every public utility receiving permission under this Act for the issue of stocks, bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness an amount equal to 12 cents for every $100 of the par or st…

(220 ILCS 32/60) Sec. 60. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 103-1066, eff. 2-20-25; text omitted.)

(220 ILCS 32/65) Sec. 65. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 103-1066, eff. 2-20-25; text omitted.)

(220 ILCS 15/7) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 5507) Sec. 7. The rights herein granted shall be in addition to any right now possessed by any public utility to condemn property for use in its operations. The filing and prosecution before the Illinois Commerce Commission of an application…

(220 ILCS 20/7) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 557) Sec. 7. Penalties; action for penalties; Commission approval of penalties. (a) Any person violating paragraph (a) of Section 6 of this Act or any rule or order issued under this Act is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed the maxim…

(220 ILCS 10/7) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 907) Sec. 7. Duties of directors. The board shall have the following duties: (1) To establish the policy of the corporation regarding appearances before regulatory agencies, legislative bodies and other public authorities, and regarding oth…

(220 ILCS 25/7) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 577) Sec. 7. Every public utility shall keep accurate records of transactions with a private energy entity, and of the use of the public utility's facilities by the private energy entity, pursuant to an interconnection ordered or approved b…

(220 ILCS 30/7) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 407) Sec. 7. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, until the respective service areas of the affected electric suppliers have been determined as provided in Section 6, no electric supplier may make an extension of existing lines or cons…

(220 ILCS 50/7) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1607) Sec. 7. Damage or dislocation. (a) In the event of any damage to or dislocation of any facilities in connection with any excavation or demolition, emergency or nonemergency, the excavator responsible for the excavation or demolition o…

(220 ILCS 35/7) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1007) Sec. 7. Nothing in this Act shall affect in any way the current or future Commission policy, rule, or order governing deposits collected from residential utility users by a utility. (Source: P.A. 83-1343.)

(220 ILCS 40/7) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1207) Sec. 7. Small Business Utility Advocate's Hotline. As soon as practical after the effective date of this Act, but in no case later than September 1, 1986, the Advocate shall have established a toll free telephone number or numbers whi…

(220 ILCS 55/7) (from Ch. 134, par. 7) Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of all persons employed in transmitting messages by telegraph to transmit them in the order in which they are received; and any person who shall fail so to transmit a message, or who shall suppress a message, or …

(220 ILCS 5/7-101) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-101) Sec. 7-101. Transactions with affiliated interests. (1) The Commission shall have jurisdiction over holders of the voting capital stock of all public utilities under the jurisdiction of the Commission to such extent as may be nece…

(220 ILCS 5/7-102) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-102) Sec. 7-102. Transactions requiring Commission approval. (A) Unless the consent and approval of the Commission is first obtained or unless such approval is waived by the Commission or is exempted in accordance with the provisions o…

(220 ILCS 5/7-103) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-103) Sec. 7-103. (1) Whenever the Commission finds that the capital of any public utility has become impaired, or will be impaired by the payment of a dividend, the Commission shall have power to order said public utility to cease and …

(220 ILCS 5/7-104) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-104) Sec. 7-104. In a proceeding before the Commission in which the consent and approval of the Commission to the sale, lease or other disposition of any real property owned by a public utility is sought, any tenant in possession who h…

(220 ILCS 5/7-105) Sec. 7-105. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 6-103, 7-101, 7-102, 7-203, 7-204, and 7-204A of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated by the Commission, a public utility providing electric service to more than 500,000 customers in…

(220 ILCS 5/7-106) Sec. 7-106. (a) Subject to the limitations contained in this Section 7-106, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 6-103 and items (f), (g), and (h) of subsection (A) of Section 7-102 of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated by the Com…

(220 ILCS 5/7-107) Sec. 7-107. Nothing in Section 7-105 or 7-106 of this Act shall be construed as (a) limiting the ability of any public utility to engage in, or the authority of the Commission to authorize, any transaction subject to Section 7-101, 7-102, 7-204, or 7-204A of th…

(220 ILCS 5/7-108) Sec. 7-108. (a) Where an affiliate of an electric public utility has offered an unregulated sale of electricity, and such affiliate would use a portion of the utility's distribution or transmission facilities to distribute or transmit the electricity that is to…

(220 ILCS 5/7-201) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-201) Sec. 7-201. No franchise, license, permit or right to own, operate, manage or control any public utility, except common carriers engaged in interstate commerce and except telegraph or telephone companies engaged in interstate comm…

(220 ILCS 5/7-203) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-203) Sec. 7-203. No franchise, license, permit or right to own, operate, manage or control any public utility shall be assigned, transferred or leased nor shall any contract or agreement with reference to or affecting any such franchis…

(220 ILCS 5/7-204) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-204) Sec. 7-204. Reorganization defined; Commission approval. (a) For purposes of this Section, "reorganization" means any transaction which, regardless of the means by which it is accomplished, results in a change in the ownership of …

(220 ILCS 5/7-204A) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-204A) Sec. 7-204A. (a) No Illinois public utility may reorganize as defined in Section 7-204 until the Commission has approved the application therefor. The application for approval of reorganization must at a minimum include the foll…

(220 ILCS 5/7-205) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-205) Sec. 7-205. If any public utility is engaged in carrying on any business other than that of a public utility, which other business is not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, that public utility in respect of s…

(220 ILCS 5/7-206) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-206) Sec. 7-206. Separate accounts for nonpublic business of public utility. The Commission may require every public utility engaged directly or indirectly in any other than a public utility business, as defined by law, to keep separat…

(220 ILCS 5/7-207) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 7-207) Sec. 7-207. Nonprofit affiliates. (a) A public utility or telecommunications carrier may organize a not-for-profit corporation for the purpose of assisting low-income consumers in the acquisition of utility and telephone services.…