Section 549.20  Definitions

The following definitions are applicable to this Part:

"811 Chicago" means the agency that provides a free One Call service to private contractors and homeowners within the City of Chicago's Corporate Limits. This system notifies all utilities of impending excavations.

"Broadband" or "Broadband Service" means a mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service, but excluding dial-up internet access service.  (See 47 CFR 8.1(b).)  This term also encompasses any service that the Federal Communications Commission finds to be providing a functional equivalent of the service described in the previous sentence or that is used to evade the protections set forth in 47 CFR 8.1.

"Broadband Infrastructure" means wires, cables, fiber optic lines, conduit, pipe, innerduct, or microduct for fiber optic or other cables that accommodate current or future broadband and wireless facilities for broadband service. [605 ILCS 145/10]

"Broadband Provider" means an entity that facilitates middle or last mile broadband access through retail service.

"Community Anchor Institution" means an entity such as a school, library, health clinic, health center, hospital or other medical provider, public safety entity, institution of higher education, public housing organization, or community support organization that facilitates greater use of broadband service by vulnerable populations, including, low-income individuals, unemployed individuals, and aged individuals. [div. F, tit. I, Section 60102, P.L. 117‑58, 47 U.S.C. 1702]

"Dark Fiber" means fiber that is deployed but not actively being used or subscribed to.

"DCEO" means the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. 

"ICC" means Illinois Commerce Commission.

"IDOT" means Illinois Department of Transportation.

"ISTHA" means Illinois State Tollway Authority.

"JULIE" or "Joint Utility Locating Information for Excavators" means the not-for-profit organization that acts as the communication source to notify utility companies that someone is planning a project that requires digging.

"Last Mile Infrastructure" means broadband installation that serves as the final leg connecting the broadband service provider's network to the end-user customer's on-premises telecommunications equipment. 

"Middle Mile Infrastructure" means broadband construction that links a broadband service provider's core network infrastructure to last mile infrastructure.

"State" means the State of Illinois.

"Underground Project" Any work done that requires excavation and installation of infrastructure underground.

"Underground Utility Facilities" has the meaning given to that term in Section 2.2 of the Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act. [605 ILCS 145/10]