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91_HB2658
LRB9105841DJcd
1 AN ACT to amend the Gas Storage Act by changing Section
2 1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Gas Storage Act is amended by changing
6 Section 1 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 15/1) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 5501)
8 Sec. 1. Any corporation which is engaged in or desires to
9 engage in, the distribution, transportation or storage of
10 natural gas or manufactured gas, which gas, in whole or in
11 part, is intended for ultimate distribution to the public in
12 the State of Illinois, if the said business of such
13 corporation is regulated or subject to regulation under
14 either the laws of the State of Illinois or the laws of the
15 United States, shall have the right to enter upon, take or
16 damage private property or any interest therein, in the
17 manner provided for by the law of eminent domain, necessary
18 or convenient for its said operations, including the storage
19 of gas, all of which operations are hereby recognized and
20 declared to be affected with a public interest and all of the
21 property used in which operations is hereby recognized and
22 declared to be devoted to public use. If a person (i) holds a
23 certificate of public convenience and necessity issued under
24 the federal Natural Gas Act (that is, under 15 U.S.C. 717f)
25 for the construction of a pipeline for the transportation of
26 natural gas and (ii) desires to exercise the right of eminent
27 domain as authorized in that Act, then the person must
28 exercise that right in a proceeding under Article VII of the
29 Code of Civil Procedure in the circuit court of the county in
30 which the property to be acquired is located.
31 (Source: Laws 1951, p. 395.)
-2- LRB9105841DJcd
1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law.