Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 220 ILCS 5 > Article XXII - Cable and Video Customer Protection Law

• Basic cable or video service: means any service offering or tier that includes the retransmission of local television broadcast signals. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/22-501
• Cable or video provider: means any person or entity providing cable service or video service pursuant to authorization under (i) the Cable and Video Competition Law of 2007; (ii) § 11-42-11 of the Illinois Municipal Code; (iii) § 5-1095 of the Counties Code; or (iv) a master antenna television, satellite master antenna television, direct broadcast satellite, multipoint distribution services, and other providers of video programming, whatever their technology. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/22-501
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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.
• Local unit of government: means a city, village, incorporated town, or a county. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/22-501
• 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
• Normal business hours: means those hours during which most similar businesses in the geographic area of the local unit of government are open to serve customers. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/22-501
• Normal operating conditions: means those service conditions that are within the control of cable or video providers. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/22-501
• 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.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Service line drop: means the point of connection between a premises and the cable or video network that enables the premises to receive cable service or video service. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 5/22-501
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14