Full Text of SB0088 95th General Assembly
SB0088eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 16-14 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/16-14) (from Ch. 38, par. 16-14)
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| Sec. 16-14. (a) A person commits the offense of unlawful | 8 |
| interference
with public utility services when he or she
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| knowingly, without the consent of the
owner of the services, | 10 |
| impairs or interrupts any public water, gas or power
supply, | 11 |
| telecommunications service, or other public services, or | 12 |
| diverts,
or causes to be diverted in whole or in part, any | 13 |
| public water, gas, or power
supply, telecommunications service | 14 |
| or other public services, or installs or
removes any device for | 15 |
| the purpose of such diversion , or knowingly delays restoration | 16 |
| of such public services, as a result of the person's theft of | 17 |
| wire used for such services .
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| (b) The terms "public water, gas, or power supply, or other | 19 |
| public service"
mean any service subject to regulation by the | 20 |
| Illinois Commerce Commission;
any service furnished by a public | 21 |
| utility that is owned and operated by
any political | 22 |
| subdivision, public institution of higher education or | 23 |
| municipal
corporation of this State; any service furnished by |
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| any public
utility that is owned by such political subdivision, | 2 |
| public institution
of higher education, or municipal | 3 |
| corporation and operated by any of its
lessees or operating | 4 |
| agents; and any service furnished by an electric
cooperative as | 5 |
| defined in Section 3.4 of the Electric Supplier Act.
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| (c) Any instrument, apparatus, or device used in obtaining | 7 |
| utility
services without paying the full charge therefore or | 8 |
| any meter that has been
altered, tampered with, or bypassed so | 9 |
| as to cause a lack of measurement or
inaccurate measurement of | 10 |
| utility services on premises controlled by the
customer or by | 11 |
| the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility
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| service at that location shall raise a rebuttable presumption | 13 |
| of the commission
of the offense described in subparagraph (a) | 14 |
| by such person.
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| (d) (1) A person convicted of unlawful interference with | 16 |
| public utility
services is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor | 17 |
| unless the offense was committed
for remuneration, in which | 18 |
| case it is a Class 4 felony.
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| (2) After a first conviction of unlawful interference with | 20 |
| public
utility services any subsequent conviction shall be a | 21 |
| Class 4 felony. | 22 |
| (3) If the disruption of the public utility services or the | 23 |
| delay in the restoration of the public utility services occurs | 24 |
| to 10 or more customers or affects an area of more than one | 25 |
| square mile, unlawful interference with public utility
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| services is a Class 2 felony.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-75.)
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