"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 Section 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.Repealed by P.A. 103-0614,§ 10, eff. 1/1/2025.Amended by P.A. 100-0863,§ 375, eff. 8/14/2018.Amended by P.A. 096-0714,§ 5, eff. 1/1/2010.Amended by P.A. 094-0623, § 5, eff. 8/18/2005.P.A. 86-674; 92-179, eff. 7-1-02.