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Public Act 90-0038

SB949 Enrolled                                 LRB9001713LDdv

    AN ACT to amend the  Public  Utilities  Act  by  changing
Sections 13-101 and 13-901.

    Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5.   The  Public  Utilities  Act  is  amended  by
changing Sections 13-101 and 13-901 as follows:

    (220 ILCS 5/13-101) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-101)
    (This Section is scheduled to be repealed July 1, 1999.)
    Sec.   13-101.    Except   to   the  extent  modified  or
supplemented by the specific provisions of this Article,  the
Sections  of  this Act pertaining to public utilities, public
utility rates and services, and the regulation  thereof,  are
fully    and    equally    applicable    to    noncompetitive
telecommunications  rates  and  services,  and the regulation
thereof,  except  where  the  context  clearly  renders  such
provisions inapplicable.  Except to the  extent  modified  or
supplemented  by  the  specific  provisions  of this Article,
Articles I through V, Sections 8-301,  8-505,  9-221,  9-222,
9-222.1,  9-222.2, and 9-250, and 9-252.1, and Articles X and
XI  of  this  Act  are  fully  and  equally   applicable   to
competitive  telecommunications  rates  and services, and the
regulation thereof.
(Source: P.A. 86-101.)

    (220 ILCS 5/13-901) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-901)
    (This Section is scheduled to be repealed July 1, 1997.)
    Sec. 13-901.  Operator Service Provider.
    (a)  For the purposes of this Section:
         (1)  "Operator   service   provider"   means   every
    telecommunications   carrier   that   provides   operator
    services  or  any  other  person  or  entity   that   the
    Commission determines is providing operator services.
         (2)  "Aggregator" means any person or entity that is
    not an operator service provider and that in the ordinary
    course  of  its  operations makes telephones available to
    the  public  or  to  transient  users  of  its   premises
    including,  but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital,
    or university for telephone calls between  points  within
    this  State  that  are  specified  by  the  user using an
    operator service provider.
         (3)  "Operator       services"       means       any
    telecommunications service that includes, as a component,
    any automatic or live assistance to a consumer to arrange
    for billing or completion, or both, of a  telephone  call
    between  points  within  this State that are specified by
    the user through a method other than:
              (A)  automatic completion with billing  to  the
         telephone from which the call originated;
              (B)  completion  through  an  access  code or a
         proprietory account number  used  by  the  consumer,
         with  billing  to  an account previously established
         with the carrier by the consumer; or
              (C)  completion in association  with  directory
         assistance services.
    (b)  The  Commission  shall,  by rule or order, adopt and
enforce  operating  requirements   for   the   provision   of
operator-assisted services. The rules shall apply to operator
service  providers  and  to  aggregators.  The rules shall be
compatible  with  the   rules    adopted   by   the   Federal
Communications   Commission   under   the  federal  Telephone
Operator Consumer Services Improvement  Act  of  1990.  These
requirements  shall  address,  but not necessarily be limited
to, the following:
         (1)  oral and written notification of  the  identity
    of  the operator service provider and the availability of
    information regarding operator  service  provider  rates,
    collection methods, and complaint resolution methods;
         (2)  restrictions   on   billing   and  charges  for
    operator services;
         (3)  restrictions on "call splashing" as  that  term
    is defined in 47 C.F.R. Section 64.708;
         (4)  access  to other telecommunications carriers by
    the use of access codes including,  but  not  limited  to
    800, 888, 950, and 10XXX numbers;
         (5)  the   appropriate   routing   and  handling  of
    emergency calls;
         (6)  the enforcement of these rules through  tariffs
    for  operator services and by a requirement that operator
    service providers withhold  payment  of  compensation  to
    aggregators  that  have  been found to be noncomplying by
    the Commission.
    (c)  The Commission shall adopt  any  rule  necessary  to
make  rules  previously adopted under this Section compatible
with the rules of the Federal  Communications  Commission  no
later  than  one  year  after  the  effective  date  of  this
amendatory Act of 1993.
    (d)  A  violation  of  any rule adopted by the Commission
under subsection (b) is a business offense subject to a  fine
of  not  less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000.  In addition,
the Commission may,  after  notice  and  hearing,  order  any
telecommunications   carrier  to  terminate  service  to  any
aggregator found to have violated any rule.
    (e)  This Section is repealed on July 1, 1999 1997.
(Source: P.A. 88-382.)

    Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
becoming law.

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