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91_HB0500
LRB9102622JSmg
1 AN ACT to amend the Public Utilities Act by changing
2 Section 13-406.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by
6 changing Section 13-406 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/13-406) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-406)
8 (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
9 Sec. 13-406. Discontinuation or abandonment of
10 telecommunication service. No telecommunications carrier
11 offering or providing noncompetitive telecommunications
12 service pursuant to a valid Certificate of Service Authority
13 or certificate of public convenience and necessity shall
14 discontinue or abandon such service once initiated until and
15 unless it shall demonstrate, and the Commission finds, after
16 notice and hearing, that such discontinuance or abandonment
17 will not deprive customers of any necessary or essential
18 telecommunications service or access thereto and is not
19 otherwise contrary to the public interest. No
20 telecommunications carrier offering or providing competitive
21 telecommunications service shall discontinue or abandon such
22 service once initiated except upon 30 days notice to the
23 Commission and affected customers. The Commission may, upon
24 its own motion or upon complaint, investigate the proposed
25 discontinuance or abandonment of a competitive
26 telecommunications service and may, after notice and hearing,
27 prohibit such proposed discontinuance or abandonment if the
28 Commission finds that it would be contrary to the public
29 interest.
30 (Source: P.A. 84-1063.)