Illinois Code § 5-3

§ 5-3.

Definitions. For the purposes of this Law: (a) "Electricity deliverer" means any person who uses any portion of any public rights of way of an Illinois municipality for the purpose of distributing, transmitting, or otherwise delivering electricity, regardless of its source, for use or consumption within that municipality, and not for resale. For purposes of this definition, use of the public rights of way shall not include the use of real property pursuant to the terms of an easement, lease, or other similar property interest held over municipally-owned property. (b) "Delivery of electricity" means the distribution, transmission, or other delivery of electricity through the use of the municipality's public rights of way, regardless of the source of the electricity, for use or consumption within that municipality, and not for resale. The term includes the delivery of electricity for use or consumption by the electricity deliverer, except for electricity used or consumed by the electricity deliverer for the production or distribution of electricity. (c) "Person" means any natural individual, firm, trust, estate, partnership, association, joint stock company, joint adventure, corporation, limited liability company, municipal corporation, the State or any of its political subdivisions, any State university created by statute, or a receiver, trustee, guardian, or other representative appointed by order of any court. (d) "Public rights of way" means streets, alleys, and similar public ways, and all areas over and under such public ways, title to which is owned by the municipality, and which are dedicated exclusively to public use. (e) "Purchaser" means any person who uses or consumes, within the corporate limits of the municipality, electricity acquired in a purchase at retail. (f) "Resale" includes any and all sales of electricity for the purpose of a subsequent sale to another, including the sale of electric energy within the meaning of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824), but excluding the distribution of electricity to occupants of a building or buildings, or to a group of customers within the municipality, by a person who owns, controls or manages, or acts as agent for, the building, buildings, or group of customers. (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 8-1-98.)