Public Utilities Commission-Appointment-Term. 3. Additional officers and employees. Accounts to be kept within State. Falsification or destruction of accounts. 18. Penalty for divulging information. 19. Reports by public utilities-Penalties for failure to report or STOCKS AND BONDS-CAPITALIZATION—INTERCORPORATE RELATIONS 20. Right to issue stocks, bonds, etc. 21. Approval of issues-Application of proceeds-Indebtedness for Section 22. Consolidations and reorganizations-Capitalization. 23. Stocks, bonds, etc., unlawfully issued void. 24. Penalty against public utility. 25. Penalty for false statement, etc. 26. No guarantee of stocks, bonds, etc., by State. 27. Intercorporate relations. 28. Foreign corporations-Franchises-Application of law to. 29. Transfer of franchises. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Discrimination forbidden. Discrimination-Rebates, etc. Long and short haul, etc.-Common carriers, telephones, telegraph, etc. Commission to fix rates and regulations. Control over joint rates. Interstate rates. 49. Joint use of facilities. Facilities, etc.-Power of Commission to require. 50. Additions and new structures-Joint construction. 51. Adequacy of railroad service. 52. 53. 54. 55. Distribution of cars Expediting traffic-Demurrage-Storage Conditions in contracts for public utility services and forms of Standards of service. Certificate of convenience and necessity. 56. Report and investigation of accidents. 57. Safety of plant, appliances, etc.-Railroad track, etc. 58. Grade crossings. 63. Right to inspect books and property and to examine agents of public utilities. 64. Complaints--notice. 65. Hearings, orders-Record-Copies of official documents and orders. 66. Service of orders. 67. Modification of order or decision-Rehearing. 68. Action to set aside orders of Commission. 69. Appeals to Supreme Court. 70. Expedition of cases. 71. Suspension of order of commission pending judicial review. 72. Reparation for overcharge-Investigation of claims against public utilities. 75. Mandamus or injunction proceedings at instance of commission. 76. Penalty for violation by public utility or corporation other than a public utility of acts or orders-Separate offenses. 77. Persons violating Act or order-penalty. 78. Actions to recover penalties. 79. Duty of Commission to prosecute, and to enforce laws affecting public utilities. 80. Cancellation of warehouse certificates. ARTICLE VI. REPEAL SAVING CLAUSE-CONSTRUCTION. 81. Acts repealed; transfer and continuation of powers. 82. Pending actions and proceedings. 83. Constitutionality. 84. 85. Act not applicable to interstate commerce. Technical omissions not to invalidate acts of Commission. 86. When Act takes effect. PUBIC UTILITIES COMMISSION LAW. (HOUSE BILL No. 907. APPROVED JUNE 30, 1913.) AN ACT to provide for the regulation of public utilities. ARTICLE I. ORGANIZATION AND POWERS OF THE COMMISSION. SECTION 1. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION-APPOINTMENT-TERM.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there is hereby created a State Public Utilities Commission consisting of five members. Within thirty days after this Act shall take effect, the Governor shall, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint five persons to constitute such commission, two to serve until the first day of March, 1915, two until the first day of March, 1916, and one until the first day of March, 1917. On or before the first days of March, 1915, 1916 and 1917, respectively, and thereafter as the term of any member expires, the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint one or two members of the commission, as the case may be, to serve for the term of six years from and after the expiration of the term of his predecessor. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor shall have been appointed and qualified. Not more than three members of said commission shall be affiliated with the same political party. The Governor shall from time to time designate the member of the commission who shall be its chairman. Every vacancy in the commission shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term by appointment by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided, that if any vacancy occurs during the recess of the Senate, the Governor may make a temporary appointment until the next meeting of the Senate." A majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum to transact business; but no vacancy shall impair the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the commission; and every finding, order or decision made by a commissioner, when approved and confirmed by the commission shall be and be deemed to be the finding, order or decision of the commission. § 2. SECRETARY AND COUNSEL.] The commission shall have a secretary, to be appointed by the commission, to hold office during its |