Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 15 — Gas Storage Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Gas Storage Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Any corporation which is engaged in or desires to engage in, the distribution, transportation or storage of natural gas or manufactured gas, which gas, in whole or in part, is intended for ultimate distribution to the public in the State of Illinois, if the said business of such corporation is regulated or subject to r…

Eminent domain

Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

Before the right of condemnation may be exercised for the acquisition of property, or any interest therein, for underground storage of gas, said corporation shall make application to the Illinois Commerce Commission (hereafter referred to in this Act as the Commission) for an order and must receive an order approving t…

Upon the filing of the application specified in Section 2 hereof, the Commission shall set a date for a hearing thereon, and said corporation shall thereupon cause notice of said hearing to be given by publishing notice thereof at least once each week for three successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation…

At the hearing on said application, the Commission shall receive and hear and make a record of such relevant evidence on the issues as may be offered by any person directly interested, and shall enter an order either granting or denying the relief sought, which order shall specify the Commission's findings and directio…

Any person directly affected by the order of the Commission shall have the right to bring a civil action to test the lawfulness and reasonableness of the order by filing a complaint in the Circuit Court of the county in which the proposed storage area or any part thereof, may lie, against the Commission or the members…

Upon receiving an order approving such gas storage project, such corporation shall have the right to utilize for the storage project so approved any geological stratum or formation required thereby, lying more than five hundred feet below the surface (but not including the surface) of any real estate owned by the State…

The rights herein granted shall be in addition to any right now possessed by any public utility to condemn property for use in its operations

The rights herein granted shall be in addition to any right now possessed by any public utility to condemn property for use in its operations. The filing and prosecution before the Illinois Commerce Commission of an application pursuant to the rights granted hereby shall not subject such corporation to any regulation b…

If any section, paragraph, sentence or phrase of this Act shall be declared unconstitutional, or void for any reason by any court of final jurisdiction, such fact shall not in any manner invalidate or affect any other section, paragraph, sentence or phrase of this Act, but the same shall continue in full force and effe…