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220 ILCS 5/5-109

(220 ILCS 5/5-109) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 5-109)

Sec. 5-109. Reports; false reports; penalty.

Each public utility in the
State, other than a commercial
mobile radio service provider, shall each year furnish to
the Commission, in such form as the Commission shall require, annual
reports as to all the items mentioned in the preceding Sections of this
Article, and in addition such other items, whether of a nature similar
to those therein enumerated or otherwise, as the Commission may
prescribe.  Such annual reports shall contain all the required information
for the period of 12 months ending on
June 30 in each year, or ending on December 31 in
each year, as the Commission may by order prescribe for each class of
public utilities, except commercial mobile radio service providers,
and shall be filed with the Commission at its office in Springfield
within 3 months after the close of the year for which
the report is made.  The Commission shall have authority to require any
public utility to file monthly reports of earnings and expenses of such
utility, and to file other periodical or special, or both periodical and
special reports concerning any matter about which the Commission is
authorized by law to keep itself informed.  All reports shall be under oath.

When any report is erroneous or defective or appears to the Commission
to be erroneous or defective, the Commission may notify the public
utility to amend such report within 30 days, and before
or after the termination of such period the Commission may examine the
officers, agents, or employees, and books, records, accounts, vouchers,
plant, equipment and property of such public utility, and correct such
items in the report as upon such examination the Commission may find
defective or erroneous.

All reports made to the Commission by any public utility and the contents
thereof shall be open to public inspection, unless otherwise ordered by the
Commission.  Such reports shall be preserved in the office of the Commission.

Any public utility which fails to make and file any report called for by
the Commission within the time specified; or to make specific answer to any
question propounded by the Commission within 30 days from the
time it is lawfully required to do so, or within such further time, not
to exceed 90 days, as may in its discretion be allowed by the
Commission, shall forfeit up to $100 for each and every day it may so be in
default if the utility collects less than $100,000 annually in gross revenue;
and if the utility collects $100,000 or more annually in gross revenue,
it shall forfeit $1,000 per day for each and every day it is in default.

Any person who willfully makes any false return or report to the
Commission or to any member, officer, or employee thereof,
any
person who willfully, in a
return or report, withholds or fails to provide material information to which
the Commission
is entitled under this Act and which information is either required to be filed
by statute, rule, regulation, order, or decision of the Commission or has been
requested by the Commission,
and any
person who willfully aids or abets such person shall be guilty of a Class A
misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)