Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 469 - CERTIFICATION FOR THE INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE OR REPAIR OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS › Section 469.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Terms defined in Section 16-128A of the Public Utilities Act
				[220 ILCS
				5/16-128A ] shall have the same meaning for purposes of
				this Part as they have under Section 16-128A of the Public Utilities Act, unless
				further defined in this Part. The following terms, when used in this Part, shall
				have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section.
"Act" means the Public Utilities Act [220 ILCS 5 ].
"Applicant" means a person or entity that files an application with
				the Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission) requesting certification pursuant to
				Section 16-128A of the Act to install, maintain or repair electric vehicle charging
				stations.
"Best's financial size category" refers to a numerical value that
				A.M. Best Company or its successor assigns to an insurance company based on the
				amount of that insurance company's policyholders' surplus and reserve funds.
"Best's rating" refers to a rating from A.M. Best Company or its
				successor that provides an overall opinion of an insurance company's ability to meet
				its obligations to policyholders.
"Certificate holder" or "Commission-certified IMR" means a person or
				entity that has received certification pursuant to this Part.
"Commercial general liability insurance" means insurance that covers
				suits against the insured for personal injury and property damages.
"Commercial purposes" means use by any person of an electric vehicle
				charging station not located on his or her own premises.
"Directly supervised" means that there is a qualified person on-site
				available for consultation and review of the installation, maintenance or repair
				work of electric vehicle charging stations performed by apprentices.
"DOL certification of satisfactory completion" means that person has
				received a nationally recognized and portable Certificate of Completion from a
				United States Department of Labor (DOL) registered apprenticeship program.
"DOL-registered electrician apprenticeship program" means an
				electrician apprenticeship training program that is certified by the DOL.
"Electric utility" means a corporation, company, limited liability
				company, association, joint stock company or association, firm, partnership or
				individual, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever
				that owns, controls, operates or manages, within Illinois, directly or indirectly,
				for public use, any plant, equipment or property used or to be used for or in
				connection with, or owns or controls any franchise, license, permit or right to
				engage in the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery or furnishing of
				heat, cold, power, electricity; or a public utility, as defined in Section 3-105 of
				the Act, that has a franchise, license, permit or right to furnish or sell
				electricity to retail customers within a service area. [220 ILCS 5/3-105 and 16
				-102]
"Electric vehicle" means a battery-powered electric vehicle operated
				solely by electricity or a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that operates on
				electricity and gasoline and has a battery that can be recharged from an external
				source. [20 ILCS 627/10 ]
"Electric vehicle charging station" means any facility or equipment
				that is used to charge a battery or other energy storage device of an electric
				vehicle. [220 ILCS
				5/16-128A(d) ]
"Entity" means an organization, institution or being that has its
				own existence for legal or tax purposes and is involved in the business of
				installing, maintaining or repairing electric vehicle charging stations.
"IMR" or "IMRs" means electric vehicle charging station installers,
				maintainers or repairers.
"Install", "installing" or "installation" means the major activities
				and actions required to connect, in accordance with applicable building and
				electrical codes, the conductors, connectors and all associated fittings, devices,
				power outlets or apparatuses mounted at the premises that are directly involved in
				delivering energy from the premises' electrical wiring to the electric vehicle
				charging station.
"Maintain", "maintaining" or "maintenance" means the major
				activities and actions required to keep in an appropriate, safe condition and
				operation the conductors, connectors and all associated fittings, devices, power
				outlets or apparatuses mounted at the premises that are directly involved in
				delivering energy from the premises' electrical wiring to the electric vehicle
				charging station.
"NEC" means the National Electrical Code adopted by the National
				Fire Protection Association, Inc., of 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02169 (NFPA
				70E), effective August 25, 2010.
"Premises and operations insurance" coverage pays for bodily injury
				or property damage that occurs on an entity's premises or as a result of an entity's
				business operations.
"Products and completed operations insurance" coverage pays for
				bodily injury and property damage that occurs away from an entity's business
				premises and is caused by the entity's products or completed work.
"Qualified person" means a person who performs installation,
				maintenance or repair of electric vehicle charging stations and who has either
				satisfactorily completed at least five installations of an electric vehicle charging
				station or has completed at least one of the following programs requiring lab or
				field work and received a certification of satisfactory completion: an
				apprenticeship as a journeyman electrician from a United States Department of Labor
				Registered Electrician Apprenticeship and Training Program or an Underwriters
				Laboratories (UL) electric vehicle charging station installation certification
				program.
"Repair" or "repairing" means the major activities and actions
				required to restore to a safe, sound condition and operation the conductors,
				connectors and all associated fittings, devices, power outlets or apparatuses
				mounted at the premises that are directly involved in delivering energy from the
				premises' electrical wiring to the electric vehicle charging station.
"Retail customer" means
a single entity using electric power or energy at a single premises
				and that either is receiving or is eligible to receive tariffed services from an
				electric utility or that is served by a municipal system or electric cooperative;
				or
an entity that, on December 16, 1997, was receiving electric service
				from a public utility and was engaged in the practice of resale and redistribution
				of such electricity within a building prior to January 2, 1957, or was providing
				lighting services to tenants in a multi-occupancy building, but only to the extent
				such resale, redistribution or lighting service is authorized by the electric
				utility's tariffs that were on file with the Commission on December 16, 1997.
				[220 ILCS 5/16-102 ].For
				purposes of this Part, a "retail customer" includes that retail customer's
				employees, officers, and agents. [220 ILCS
				5/16-128A(d) ]
"Self-installer" means an individual who leases or purchases an
				electric vehicle charging station for his or her own personal use and installs an
				electric vehicle charging station on his or her own premises without the assistance
				of any other person. [220 ILCS
				5/16-128A(d) ]
"Surplus Line Association of Illinois" is an organization of
				Illinois surplus line producers as defined in Section 445.1 of the Illinois
				Insurance Code [215 ILCS
				5/445.1 ].