Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 255 - NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR CHANGE IN RATES FOR COOLING, ELECTRIC, GAS, HEATING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, SEWER OR WATER SERVICES › Section 255.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means The Public Utilities Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch.
				1112/3, par. 1-101, et seq.).
"Change," used in reference to a schedule, does not mean or include
				a change resulting from the operation of a provision which by its terms proposes no
				increase or decrease in the charges for service to any customer unless and until the
				happening of some future event which may or may not happen, as, for example, the
				filing or applying of a change represented by fuel clause. The provisions of Section
				255.20(h)
				of this Part shall, nevertheless, apply to such a "change".
"General rate increase" means a change in any public utility rate or
				schedule which, if applied to the total number of customers then currently being
				served under the particular rate classification involved (such as a residential
				classification or a commercial classification), would result either in an increase
				in the charges to 10% or more of the said number of customers or would result in a
				net increase in the revenues of the public utility from that particular
				classification for the same amount of service.
"Office of the public utility" means and includes only those offices
				maintained by the public utility for the purpose of the public transacting business
				with the public utility. It does not mean or include places of business maintained
				primarily for another purpose, such as stores, banks or offices or organizations
				other than the public utility, where arrangements may have been made for the receipt
				of payments of bills due the public utility or for the receipt of requests for
				service or for the transaction of other incidental business relating to the public
				utility, and it does not include a public utility office maintained primarily for
				operation purposes or rendering utility services to the public, such as telephone
				central offices or telephone public pay stations or telegraph branch offices
				maintained in hotels, railroad stations or office buildings.
"Public utility" as used in this Part, means any public utility as
				defined in Section 3-105 of the Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 1112/3, par. 3-105)
				except those entities engaged in the conveyance of oil by pipeline. "Public utility"
				shall also include any telecommunications carrier, as defined in Section 13-202 of
				the Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 1112/3, par. 13-202) to which the provisions of
				Section 9-201 of the Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 1112/3, par. 9-201) are made
				applicable by Section 13-101 of the Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 1112/3, par.
				13-101).
"Schedule" means and includes the sheets filed with the Commission
				by the public utility on which are set forth the rates or other charges or
				classifications for service furnished by the public utility and the rules,
				regulations and practices of the utility relating to or affecting any such rates,
				charges or classifications.