Chapter 220 — UTILITIES

(220 ILCS 50/2.1.9) Sec. 2.1.9. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 96-714, eff. 1-1-10. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.10) Sec. 2.10. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 94-623, eff. 8-18-05. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.11) Sec. 2.11. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 94-623, eff. 8-18-05. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.2) Sec. 2.2. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 100-863, eff. 8-14-18. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.3) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.3) Sec. 2.3. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 94-623, eff. 8-18-05. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.4) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.4) Sec. 2.4. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-674. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.5) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.5) Sec. 2.5. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-674. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.6) Sec. 2.6. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 96-714, eff. 1-1-10. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.7) Sec. 2.7. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 92-179, eff. 7-1-02. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.8) Sec. 2.8. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 92-179, eff. 7-1-02. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/2.9) Sec. 2.9. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 94-623, eff. 8-18-05. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(220 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1603) Sec. 3. JULIE Membership. The owners or operators of underground utility facilities are required to be members of JULIE. JULIE shall require that all facility information needed to operate JULIE within each underground utility facilit…

(220 ILCS 50/4) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1604) Sec. 4. Required activities. Every excavator who engages in nonemergency excavation or demolition shall: (a) take reasonable action to inform the excavator of the location of any facilities in and near the area for which such operatio…

(220 ILCS 50/4.1) Sec. 4.1. Watch and protect. (a) If, upon notice from JULIE, an underground utility facility owner or operator determines that the facility is within the proposed excavation area and the underground utility facility owner or operator desires to have an authorize…

(220 ILCS 50/5) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1605) Sec. 5. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 92-179, eff. 7-1-02. Repealed by P.A. 103-614, eff. 1-1-25.)

(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 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 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 50/7.5) Sec. 7.5. Exposed facility. (a) If any previously unmarked facility is exposed during excavation or demolition, emergency or nonemergency, the excavator responsible for the excavation or demolition operations shall immediately notify JULIE. (b) At a minimum, the…

(220 ILCS 50/8) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1608) Sec. 8. Liability or financial responsibility. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect or determine the financial responsibility for any operation under this Act or liability of any entity or individual for any damages that …

(220 ILCS 50/9) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1609) Sec. 9. Negligence. (a) When it is shown by competent evidence in any action for damages to facilities that such damages resulted from excavation or demolition and that the excavator engaged in such excavation or demolition failed to …

(220 ILCS 55/0.01) (from Ch. 134, par. 0.01) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Telegraph Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(220 ILCS 55/1) (from Ch. 134, par. 1) Sec. 1. That every company heretofore incorporated under any general or special law, or which may be incorporated under any general law of this state for the construction or operation of any telegraph line through or in this state, shall pos…

(220 ILCS 55/10) (from Ch. 134, par. 11) Sec. 10. Any telegraph operator or person employed in any telegraph office in this state, or any other person, who shall, knowing the design thereof, deliver or cause to be delivered any communication prohibited by the preceding section of…

(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 55/3) (from Ch. 134, par. 3) Sec. 3. When it shall be necessary, for the construction, alteration or repair of any line of telegraph, to take or damage any property, the same may be done and the compensation therefor ascertained and made in the manner which may be at th…

(220 ILCS 55/3.5) Sec. 3.5. Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-1…

(220 ILCS 55/4) (from Ch. 134, par. 4) Sec. 4. No such company shall have the right to erect any poles, posts, piers, abutments, wires or other fixtures of their lines along or upon any public ground outside the corporate limits of a city, town or village, without the consent of …

(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 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 55/7a) (from Ch. 134, par. 8) Sec. 7a. Any telegraph company or any officer, agent or employee of a telegraph company which shall disclose or knowingly permit to be disclosed, or shall impart or knowingly permit to be imparted, the contents of any message entrusted to s…

(220 ILCS 55/8) (from Ch. 134, par. 9) Sec. 8. Whoever shall transmit or cause to be transmitted by telegraph, from any place in this state to any other place in this state or elsewhere, any falsehood, knowing the same to be such, shall be guilty of a petty offense. (Source: P.A.…

(220 ILCS 55/9) (from Ch. 134, par. 10) Sec. 9. Any person who, for the purpose of inciting or aiding rebellion, riot or insurrection in this state against the government or laws of this state or of the United States, or a hostile invasion of this state, shall transmit or cause t…

(220 ILCS 60/0.01) (from Ch. 134, par. 11.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Telephone Line Right of Way Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(220 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 134, par. 12) Sec. 1. That it shall be lawful for any person or persons living on the line of any public highway, street or alley outside of any incorporated city, village or town in this state, or on any private road leading to such highway, street or a…

(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 60/3) (from Ch. 134, par. 14) Sec. 3. Any person who shall unlawfully and intentionally injure, molest, or destroy any of said lines or the material or property belonging thereto, or shall in any manner interfere with the proper working of such lines, shall on convictio…

(220 ILCS 65/0.01) (from Ch. 134, par. 16.90) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Telephone Company Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(220 ILCS 65/1) (from Ch. 134, par. 17) Sec. 1. That each corporation heretofore or hereafter having power under its charter, or under any special or general law of the State of Illinois to construct or operate telephone lines or exchanges in or through Illinois, shall possess th…

(220 ILCS 65/3) (from Ch. 134, par. 19) Sec. 3. Whenever the lines or cables of any such company are erected or constructed over the rails of any steam or electric railroad within the State of Illinois, such company shall maintain such wires or cables not less than 25 feet above …

(220 ILCS 65/4) (from Ch. 134, par. 20) Sec. 4. Right of condemnation. Every telecommunications carrier as defined in the Telecommunications Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act may, when it shall be necessary for the construction, maintenance, alteration or extension of its teleco…

(220 ILCS 65/4.5) Sec. 4.5. Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-1…

(220 ILCS 65/5) (from Ch. 134, par. 21) Sec. 5. Any mortgage or deed of trust which shall hereafter be executed by any telephone company upon its real and personal property in the manner provided for the execution of mortgages upon real estate shall be and constitute a valid lien…

(220 ILCS 66/0.01) (was 720 ILCS 660/0.01) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Party Line Emergency Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(220 ILCS 66/1) (was 720 ILCS 660/1) Sec. 1. "Party Line" means a subscribers' line telephone circuit, consisting of 2 or more main telephone stations connected therewith, each station with a distinctive ring or telephone number. "Emergency" means a situation in which property or…

(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 66/3) (was 720 ILCS 660/3) Sec. 3. Any person who asks for or requests the use of a party line on the pretext that an emergency exists, knowing that no emergency in fact exists, is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 77-2621.)