Illinois Administrative Code › Title 92 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 530 - ACCOMMODATION OF UTILITIES ON RIGHT-OF-WAY › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 530.30 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this Part, the words and terms listed shall have
				  the meanings ascribed to them as follows:
"ANSI" - American National Standards Institute.
"Applicant" - A person applying for a permit under this
				  Part.
"ASTM" - American Society for Testing and Materials.
"Backfill" - The methods or materials for replacing excavated
				  material in a trench or pit.
"Bore" or "Boring" - To excavate an underground cylindrical
				  cavity for the insertion of a pipe or electrical conductor.
"Carrier Pipe" - The pipe enclosing the liquid, gas or slurry
				  to be transported.
"Casing" - A structural protective enclosure for transmittal
				  devices such as: carrier pipes, electrical conductors, and fiber optic
				  devices.
"Clear Zone" - The total roadside border area, starting at
				  the edge of the pavement, available for safe use by errant vehicles. This area
				  may consist of a shoulder, a recoverable slope, a non-recoverable slope, and a
				  clear run-out area. The desired width is dependent upon the traffic volumes and
				  speeds, and on the roadside geometry. Distances are specified in the AASHTO
				  Roadside Design Guide, incorporated by reference in Section
				  530.20.
"Coating" - Protective wrapping or mastic cover applied to
				  buried pipe for protection against external corrosion.
"Code" - The Illinois Highway Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch.
				  121, pars. 1-101 et seq.).
"Conductor" - Wire carrying electrical current.
"Conduit" - A casing or encasement usually for an electrical
				  conductor.
"Control of Access" - To designate, establish and regulate
				  existing or proposed State highways as freeways, including the acquisition of
				  all existing, future or potential easements or rights of access, crossing,
				  light, air or view, to, from or over such freeway right-of-way, from or to any
				  real property abutting such freeway right-of-way.
"Conventional Highway" - State highway with minimum
				  access-control.
"Cover" - The depth of earth or backfill over buried utility
				  pipe or conductor.
"Department" - The Illinois Department of
				  Transportation.
"Department Approved" - The approval of the Department
				  requires compliance with this Part. The Department's approval shall be
				  consistent with commonly recognized and accepted traffic control and
				  construction principles, including material selection, and with sound
				  engineering judgment.
Unless otherwise provided in the permit or in this Part, the
				  following Departmental publications shall serve, inclusively and not
				  exclusively, as examples of such principles and standards:
Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge
				  Construction
Supplemental Specifications and Recurring Special
				  Provisions
Highway Design Manual
Highway Standards Manual
Standard Specifications for Traffic Control Items
Illinois Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
Flagger's Handbook
Work Site Protection Manual for Daylight Maintenance
				  Operations
If the Department finds a discrepancy between differing
				  principles, it shall determine which principles apply. If requested, the
				  Department shall state what standard will apply to the construction,
				  maintenance, or operation of a facility in the future.
The Department's determination will not be changed unless it
				  finds that the determination was incorrect or that a new standard is clearly
				  superior to the earlier standard. If the Department makes such a finding, it
				  shall notify in writing all parties to whom it had given its earlier
				  determination.
Requests for determinations and publications may be addressed
				  to:
Illinois Department of Transportation
Division of Highways
Chief of the Bureau of Maintenance
2300 South Dirksen Parkway
Springfield, Illinois 62764
"Disrupt the right-of-way" - Anything that causes the
				  right-of-way to be in a condition other than that appropriate for its intended
				  use as a highway right-of-way. Such changes to the condition may include, but
				  are not limited to, the following:
excavating or other cutting;
placement (whether temporary or permanent) of materials,
				  equipment, devices, or structures;
damage to vegetation; and
compaction or loosening of the soil.
"District" - Any one of the nine administrative subdivisions
				  of the Department's Division of Highways (see Section 530.Illustration
				  A).
"District Engineer" - The Chief Executive Officer of a
				  District.
"Encasement" - Provision of a protective casing.
"Expanding Areas" - Areas where plans for commercial or
				  residential development are being contemplated.
"Extra Heavy Pipe" - Pipe meeting ASTM standards for this
				  pipe designation.
"Facility" - All structures, devices, objects, and materials
				  (including track and rails, wires, ducts, fibre optic cable, poles, conduits,
				  grates, covers, pipes, cables, and appurtenances thereto) owned or operated by
				  permittees on State highway rights-of-way under this Part. This term also
				  refers to those things for which a permittee may be responsible notwithstanding
				  a claim of abandonment.
"Frontage Road" - Roadway, usually parallel, providing access
				  to land adjacent to the highway where it is precluded by control of access on
				  highway.
"Fully Access-controlled Highways" - State highways which
				  have been designated, established and are regulated as freeways to which access
				  is never permitted, excepting only by way of grade separated intersections with
				  selected roads and streets. Federal Aid Interstate and Defense Highways,
				  Chicago Area Expressways, Supplemental Freeways and those primary highways
				  constructed to freeway standards are included in the category of Fully
				  Access-controlled Highways.
"Highways" - Rural or urban roads or streets, right-of-way,
				  bridges, drainage structures, signs, guardrails, protective structures and
				  appurtenances necessary or convenient for vehicle traffic under the
				  jurisdiction of the Department. This term includes all of the right-of-way,
				  including structures, ditches and embankments.
"ILCC" - Illinois Commerce Commission.
"Immediate" or "Immediately" - That which is done within a
				  period of time specified by the Department. If no time period is specified, the
				  time period shall be two hours.
"Jacking" - Pushing a pipe horizontally under a roadway by
				  mechanical means with or without boring.
"Jetting" - Pushing a pipe through the earth using water
				  under pressure to create a cavity ahead of the pipe.
"Joint Use" - The use of pole lines, trenches or other
				  facilities by two or more utilities.
"Occupancy" - The presence of utility facilities on, over or
				  under highway right-of-way.
"Overlook" - A roadside turnout for motorists to safely enjoy
				  a scenic panorama.
"Owner Corporation" - The company or corporate entity that
				  owns or operates a utility.
"Pavement Cut" - The removal of an area of highway pavement
				  for access to an underground utility installation.
"Permit" - Formal authorization by the Department to
				  construct and maintain utility facilities on State highway right-of-way.
"Permittee" - That entity which has a permit issued pursuant
				  to Section 9-113 of the Code.
"Pressure" - The internal force acting radially against the
				  walls of a carrier pipe expressed in pounds per square inch gauge
				  (psig).
"Prompt" - See "Timely."
"Public Entity" - A legal entity that constitutes or is part
				  of the government, whether at local, state or federal level.
"Rest Area" - A roadside area or park for motorists to rest
				  and relax in the interest of highway safety.
"Restoration" - The repair of an area or highway facility
				  disrupted by the construction, maintenance or repair of a utility.
"Right-of-Way" - Land owned as an easement or in fee devoted
				  to highway purposes. Although a utility may have its own right-of-way, this
				  term is used in this Part to designate the real estate on which a highway is
				  located.
"Roadway Structure" - That part of the highway that includes
				  the pavement and shoulders.
"Scenic Easement" - A right or inferred right in land
				  abutting a State highway which has been acquired to preserve roadside
				  environment having aesthetic or historical features.
"Shoulder" - A width of roadway, adjacent to the pavement,
				  providing lateral support to the pavement edge and providing an area for
				  emergency vehicular stops and storage of snow removed from the pavement.
"Sound Engineering Judgment" - A decision(s) based on
				  expertise and knowledge of engineering principles, practices and
				  experience.
"Spur Track" - When track and rails on one of a State highway
				  are connected to a customer on the other side of that highway, the connecting
				  track shall be known, for the purposes of this Part, as "spur track."
"Timely" - That which is done within a period of time
				  specified by the Department. If no time period is specified, the period shall
				  be 30 days.
"Travel Lane" - A portion of the paved area of the roadway
				  having a definite width allowing for the movement of a legal width
				  vehicle.
"Trench" - A relatively narrow open excavation for the
				  installation of an underground utility element.
"Utility" - A privately, publicly or cooperatively owned
				  line, facility or system for producing, transmitting or distributing
				  communications, cable television, power, electricity, light, heat, gas, oil,
				  crude products, water, steam, waste, storm water not connected with highway
				  drainage or any other similar commodity, including any fire or police signal
				  system or street lighting system, which directly or indirectly serves the
				  public. The term utility shall also mean the utility company inclusive of any
				  wholly owned or controlled subsidiary. The term utility includes those
				  facilities used solely by the utility which are a part of its operating
				  plant.
"Vent" - A pipe to allow the dissipation into the atmosphere
				  of gases or vapors from an underground casing.
"Wet Boring" - Boring using water under pressure at the
				  cutting auger to soften the earth and to provide a sluice for the excavated
				  material.