Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 220 ILCS 5 > Article XXI - Cable and Video Competition

• Access: means that the cable or video provider is capable of providing cable services or video services at the household address using any technology, other than direct-to-home satellite service, that provides 2-way broadband Internet capability and video programming, content, and functionality, regardless of whether any customer has ordered service or whether the owner or landlord or other responsible person has granted access to the household. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Basic cable or video service: means any cable or video service offering or tier that includes the retransmission of local television broadcast signals. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Broadband service: means a high speed service connection to the public Internet capable of supporting, in at least one direction, a speed in excess of 200 kilobits per second (kbps) to the network demarcation point at the subscriber's premises. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Cable operator: means that term as defined in item (5) of 47 U. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Cable service: means that term as defined in item (6) of 47 U. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Cable system: means that term as defined in item (7) of 47 U. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Commission: means the Illinois Commerce Commission. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Designated market area: means a designated market area, as determined by Nielsen Media Research and published in the 1999-2000 Nielsen Station Index Directory and Nielsen Station Index United States Television Household Estimates or any successor publication. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Footprint: means the geographic area designated by the cable service or video service provider as the geographic area in which it will offer cable services or video services during the period of its State-issued authorization. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Holder: means a person or entity that has received authorization to offer or provide cable or video service from the Commission pursuant to Section 21-401 of this Article. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Household: means a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms, or a single room that is intended for occupancy as separate living quarters. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Incumbent cable operator: means a person or entity that provided cable services or video services in a particular area under a franchise agreement with a local unit of government pursuant to § 11-42-11 of the Illinois Municipal Code (65 ILCS 5/11-42-11) or § 5-1095 of the Counties Code (55 ILCS 5/5-1095) on January 1, 2007. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Local franchising authority: means the local unit of government that has or requires a franchise with a cable operator, a provider of cable services, or a provider of video services to construct or operate a cable or video system or to offer cable services or video services under § 11-42-11 of the Illinois Municipal Code (65 ILCS 5/11-42-11) or § 5-1095 of the Counties Code (55 ILCS 5/5-1095). See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Local unit of government: means a city, village, incorporated town, or county. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Low-income household: means those residential households located within the holder's existing telephone service area where the average annual household income is less than $35,000, based on the United States Census Bureau estimates adjusted annually to reflect rates of change and distribution. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" alone, is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.10
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Public rights-of-way: means the areas on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, public sidewalk, alley, waterway, or utility easements dedicated for compatible uses. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Service: means the provision of cable service or video service to subscribers and the interaction of subscribers with the person or entity that has received authorization to offer or provide cable or video service from the Commission pursuant to Section 21-401 of this Act. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Service provider fee: means the amount paid under Section 21-801 of this Act by the holder to a municipality, or in the case of an unincorporated service area to a county, for service areas within its territorial jurisdiction, but under no circumstances shall the service provider fee be paid to more than one local unit of government for the same portion of the holder's service area. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• 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
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Telecommunications service area: means the area designated by the Commission as the area in which a telecommunications company was obligated to provide non-competitive local telephone service as of February 8, 1996 as incorporated into Section 13-202. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• United States: may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
• Video programming: means that term as defined in item (20) of 47 U. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201
• Video service: means video programming provided by a video service provider and subscriber interaction, if any, that is required for the selection or use of such video programming services, and that is provided through wireline facilities located at least in part in the public rights-of-way without regard to delivery technology, including Internet protocol technology. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/21-201