(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 construct new lines for the purpose of furnishing service
to a customer or premises which it is not entitled to serve under Section
5, or furnish service to any customer or premises which such supplier is
not entitled to serve under Section 5, unless in any such case such
electric supplier gives written notice to the electric supplier or
suppliers which may be adversely affected by the proposed construction,
extension or service. Any electric supplier which claims that it should be
permitted to serve any customer or premises which could be served by such
proposed construction, extension or furnishing of service may within 20
days after receipt of such notice or, if no notice is received, not later
than 18 months after the completion of such proposed construction,
extension or the commencement of service, file its complaint with the
Commission which shall proceed to determine the issue as provided in
Section 8.
The electric supplier giving such notice may, however, commence such
construction, extension or service, subject to the subsequent final
determination of the Commission as to which supplier should be permitted to
furnish such service.
This Section does not apply to and no notice need be given under this
Section by (1) a public utility constructing new lines, extending existing
lines or furnishing service in any county in which there are no existing
lines of an electric cooperative and which is not adjacent to any county in
which there are existing lines of an electric cooperative or constructing
new lines, extending existing lines or furnishing service more than 5 miles
away from an existing line of an electric cooperative; (2) a generation and
transmission electric cooperative making a construction or extension of
lines solely to serve its member distribution electric cooperatives which
are not incorporated municipalities; (3) any electric supplier constructing
new lines or extending existing lines to furnish service exclusively to its
own property and for its own use; and (4) any electric supplier making, for
the purpose of furnishing service to a customer, an extension of 300 feet
or less of line having a voltage of 600 volts or less which does not make
the service of that supplier any nearer to the existing lines of another
supplier than at the effective date of this Act.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1206.)
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