100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB2453
 
Introduced 1/30/2018, by Sen. Terry Link
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



220 ILCS 50/2.2  from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.2

     Amends the Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. Provides that, for purposes of the Act, the term "underground utility facilities" or "facilities" does not include underground storm sewers located within a right-of-way controlled by the counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Underground Utility Facilities 
5Damage Prevention Act is amended  by changing Section 2.2 as 
6follows:
 



7    (220 ILCS 50/2.2)  (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.2)



8    Sec. 2.2. Underground utility facilities. 
9    (a) "Underground utility facilities" or "facilities" means 
10and includes wires, ducts, fiber optic cable, conduits, pipes, 
11sewers, and cables and their connected appurtenances installed 
12beneath the surface of the ground by:
13        (1)  a public utility as defined in the Public Utilities 
14    Act;
15        (2)  a municipally owned or mutually owned utility 
16    providing a similar utility service;
17        (3) a pipeline entity transporting gases, crude oil, 
18    petroleum products, or other hydrocarbon materials within 
19    the State;
20        (4)  a telecommunications carrier as defined in the 
21    Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985, or by a 
22    company described in Section 1 of  the Telephone Company 
23    Act;
 
 
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1        (5) a community antenna television system, as defined 
2    in the Illinois Municipal Code or the Counties Code;
3        (6) a holder, as that term is defined in the Cable and 
4    Video Competition Law of 2007;
5        (7)  any other entity owning or operating underground 
6    facilities that transport generated electrical power to 
7    other utility owners or operators or transport generated 
8    electrical power within the internal electric grid of a 
9    wind turbine generation farm; and
10        (8) an electric cooperative as defined in the Public 
11    Utilities Act. 

12    "Underground utility facilities" or "facilities" does not 
13include underground storm sewers located within a right-of-way 
14controlled by the following  counties: DuPage, Kane, Lake, 
15McHenry, and Will. 
16(Source: P.A. 96-714, eff. 1-1-10.)