Bill Text: IL SB2453 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB2453 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB2453-Introduced.html

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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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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Underground Utility Facilities
Damage Prevention Act is amended by changing Section 2.2 as
follows:
(220 ILCS 50/2.2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1602.2)
Sec. 2.2. Underground utility facilities.
(a) "Underground utility facilities" or "facilities" means
and includes wires, ducts, fiber optic cable, conduits, pipes,
sewers, and cables and their connected appurtenances installed
beneath the surface of the ground by:
(1) a public utility as defined in the Public Utilities
Act;
(2) a municipally owned or mutually owned utility
providing a similar utility service;
(3) a pipeline entity transporting gases, crude oil,
petroleum products, or other hydrocarbon materials within
the State;
(4) a telecommunications carrier as defined in the
Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985, or by a
company described in Section 1 of the Telephone Company
Act;

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(5) a community antenna television system, as defined
in the Illinois Municipal Code or the Counties Code;
(6) a holder, as that term is defined in the Cable and
Video Competition Law of 2007;
(7) any other entity owning or operating underground
facilities that transport generated electrical power to
other utility owners or operators or transport generated
electrical power within the internal electric grid of a
wind turbine generation farm; and
(8) an electric cooperative as defined in the Public
Utilities Act.
"Underground utility facilities" or "facilities" does not
include underground storm sewers located within a right-of-way
controlled by the following counties: DuPage, Kane, Lake,
McHenry, and Will.
(Source: P.A. 96-714, eff. 1-1-10.)