“Underground utility facilities” or “facilities” means and includes wires, ducts, fiber optic cable, conduits, pipes, sewers, and cables and their connected appurtenances installed beneath the surface of the ground by:
         (1) a public utility as defined in the Public
    
Utilities Act;
        (2) a municipally owned or mutually owned utility
    
providing a similar utility service;
        (3) a pipeline entity transporting gases, crude oil,
    
petroleum products, or other hydrocarbon materials within the State;
        (4) a telecommunications carrier as defined in the
    
Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985, or by a company described in § 1 of the Telephone Company Act;
        (5) a community antenna television system, as defined
    
in the Illinois Municipal Code or the Counties Code;
        (6) a holder, as that term is defined in the Cable
    
and Video Competition Law of 2007;
        (7) any other entity owning or operating underground
    
facilities that transport generated electrical power to other utility owners or operators or transport generated electrical power within the internal electric grid of a wind turbine generation farm; and
        (8) an electric cooperative as defined in the Public
    
Utilities Act.
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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 50/2.2

  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
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