Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 200 - RULES OF PRACTICE › Subpart B - FORM, FILING AND SERVICE OF PLEADINGS › Section 200.150 - Service

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Formal complaints
				will be served by the Commission only.
b) Petitions, applications, answers, intervening
				petitions, supplemental complaints and petitions, amendments to pleadings, written
				motions, responses, replies, notices, suggested findings of fact and conclusions of
				law, exceptions to Hearing Examiners' proposed orders, briefs, drafts or suggested
				forms of order, applications for further hearing, petitions for rehearing, and
				similar documents shall be filed with the Chief Clerk of the Commission and shall be
				served by the person filing same upon all parties to the proceeding and upon Staff
				and the Hearing Examiner, if any, and, when filed, shall be accompanied by proof of
				service upon all parties. In addition, any person filing a petition under Section
				8-406 of the Public Utilities Act [220 ILCS
				5/8-406 ] for a certificate of public convenience and
				necessity to serve as a water or sewer public utility shall serve a written copy of
				the petition on each municipality which is located partly or wholly within the area
				proposed to be certificated, or whose corporate boundary lies within 11/2 miles of
				such area.
c) Service of paper
				documents. Except as otherwise provided in this Subpart, Subpart F, or by the
				Commission or the Hearing Examiner, service of paper documents shall be made by
				delivering in person or by depositing in the United States mail, properly addressed
				with first class postage prepaid, or by depositing with a private express courier
				service, properly addressed with charges prepaid or payment arrangements made, one
				copy to each person entitled thereto. Service by mail is effective upon mailing;
				service by a private express courier service is effective upon delivery to the
				private express courier service. Service of petitions for interlocutory review shall
				be effective upon receipt by the party served. When Staff witnesses or any party or
				parties have appeared by an attorney, service upon the attorney shall be deemed
				service upon such persons. Notices under the ICTL shall be served as provided in
				Sections 18c-1801 and 18c-1802 of that statute [625 ILCS 5/18c-1801 and 18 c-1802].
				Service is effective on a public utility, telecommunications carrier, carrier under
				the ICTL or other entity regulated by the Commission, if mailed to the last address
				on file with the Commission. Except as otherwise provided by the Commission or the
				Hearing Examiner, whenever Staff or a party has the right or is required to do some
				act within a prescribed period after the service of a notice or other document upon
				Staff or the party, and the notice or other document is served upon Staff or the
				party by mail, four days shall be added to the prescribed period.
d) Proof of service of any paper document shall be
				by certificate of attorney, acknowledgement of receipt, or affidavit, except that
				proof of service on the Commission is made pursuant to Section
				200.70.
e) In any proceeding involving more than four
				parties, the Chief Clerk shall prepare and disseminate to all parties a service list
				showing the name of each party and the names and addresses of each party's
				representatives entitled to service. Unless a party was unable to include an e-mail
				address pursuant to Section
				200.100,
				200.170,
				200.200,
				or
				200.540,
				service lists shall show the e-mail addresses of each party's representatives.
				Parties shall be required to update their service lists to insure the inclusion of
				all parties during the course of the proceeding. Updated service lists may be
				obtained from the Chief Clerk's office.
f) In any application, petition, or complaint that
				initiates a "Contested Case" or a "Licensing Proceeding" as defined in Section
				200.40, the
				Commission shall serve notice. The notice shall provide:
1) A statement of the time, place, and nature of
				the hearing;
2) A statement of the legal
				authority and jurisdiction under which the hearing is to be held;
3) A reference to the particular Sections of the
				substantive and procedural statutes and rules involved;
4) Except where a more detailed statement is
				otherwise provided for by law, a short and plain statement of the matters asserted,
				the consequences of a failure to respond, and the official file or other reference
				number;
5) The names and mailing
				addresses of the Hearing Examiner, all parties, and all other persons to whom the
				Commission gives notice of the hearing unless otherwise confidential by law.
				[5 ILCS
				100/10-25(a) ]; and
6) A copy of the complaint, in proceedings
				initiated under Section 10-108 of the Public Utilities Act [220 ILCS
				5/10-108 ]