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220 ILCS 5/13-101 (2026)

Application of Act to telecommunications rates and services

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(220 ILCS 5/13-101) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-101)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2030)
    Sec. 13-101. Application of Act to telecommunications rates and services. 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 to the extent modified or supplemented by the specific provisions of this Article or where the context clearly renders such provisions inapplicable. Articles I through IV, Sections 5-101, 5-106, 5-108, 5-110, 5-201, 5-202.1, 5-203, 8-301, 8-305, 8-501, 8-502, 8-503, 8-505, 8-509, 8-509.5, 8-510, 9-221, 9-222, 9-222.1, 9-222.2, 9-241, 9-250, and 9-252.1, and Article X of this Act are fully and equally applicable to the noncompetitive and competitive services of an Electing Provider and to competitive telecommunications rates and services, and the regulation thereof except that Section 5-109 shall apply to the services of an Electing Provider and to competitive telecommunications rates and services only to the extent that the Commission requires annual reports authorized by Section 5-109, provided the telecommunications provider may use generally accepted accounting practices or accounting systems it uses for financial reporting purposes in the annual report, and except that Sections 8-505 and 9-250 shall not apply to competitive retail telecommunications services and Sections 8-501 and 9-241 shall not apply to competitive services; in addition, as to competitive telecommunications rates and services, and the regulation thereof, and with the exception of competitive retail telecommunications service rates and services, all rules and regulations made by a telecommunications carrier affecting or pertaining to its charges or service shall be just and reasonable. As of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, Sections 4-202, 4-203, and 5-202 of this Act shall cease to apply to telecommunications rates and services.
(Source: P.A. 100-20, eff. 7-1-17.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1994–2003 · leading case: In Re Illinois Bell Switching Station Litig., 641 N.E.2d 440 (Ill. 1994).
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In Re Illinois Bell Switching Station Litig., 641 N.E.2d 440 (Ill. 1994). · cites it 2× “That section, which is applicable to Illinois Bell by virtue of section 13— 101 of the Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985 (220 ILCS 5/13-101 (West 1992)), provides: "In case any public utility shall do, cause to be done or permit to be done any act, matter or…”
Ill. Bell Tel. v. Ill. Comm. Com'n, 669 N.E.2d 919 (Ill. App. Ct. 1996). “See 220 ILCS 5/13-101 et seq. (West 1994). Article 13, however, will automatically be repealed on July 1, 1999.”
Wernikoff v. RCN Telecom Servs. of Illinois, Inc. (Ill. App. Ct. 2003). · cites it 2× “Nevertheless, the court admitted that it was an extremely close question as to whether the legislature, in passing the Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985 (Telecommunications Article) (220 ILCS 5/13-101 et seq. (West 2000)), intended to retain the Commission's…”
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