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• California Public Utilities Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Public Utilities Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code, insofar as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 5
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these definitions, rules of construction, and general provisions shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 6
  Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 7
  Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, petition, or record is required or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 9
  Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that term...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 14
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 15
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 16
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 17
  "State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 18
  "County" includes city and county.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 19
  "City" includes city and county and "incorporated town," but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 20
  "Commission" means the Public Utilities Commission created by Section 1 of Article XII of the State Constitution, and "commissioner" means a member of the commission.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 20.5
  For the purposes of this code, "recycled water" or "reclaimed water" has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 21
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 22
  No corporation formed or existing before 12 o'clock m. of January 1, 1873, is affected by the provisions of Division 4 of this code unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 201
  This part may be cited as the "Public Utilities Act."
• California Public Utilities Code Section 202
  Neither this part nor any provision thereof, except when specifically so stated, shall apply to commerce with foreign nations or to interstate commerce, except insofar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 203
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 204
  "Corporation" includes a corporation, a company, an association, and a joint stock association.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 205
  "Person" includes an individual, a firm, and a copartnership.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 206
  As used in this chapter "person" and "corporation" include the lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, of the person or corporation.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 207
  "Public or any portion thereof" means the public generally, or any limited portion of the public, including a person, private corporation, municipality, or other political...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 208
  "Transportation of persons" includes every service in connection with or incidental to the safety, comfort, or convenience of the person transported and the receipt, carriage,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 209
  "Transportation of property" includes every service in connection with or incidental to the transportation of property, including in particular its receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer, switching,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 210
  "Rates" includes rates, fares, tolls, rentals, and charges, unless the context indicates otherwise.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 211
  "Common carrier" means every person and corporation providing transportation for compensation to or for the public or any portion thereof, except as otherwise provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 212
  "Common carrier" shall not include: (a) Any corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any vessel, by reason of the furnishing of water transportation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 214.5
  With respect to a motor vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for compensation by a passenger stage corporation, "owner" means the corporation or person...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 215
  "Between fixed termini or over a regular route" means the termini or route between which, or over which any passenger stage corporation usually or ordinarily...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 215.6
  "Food products for human consumption" means articles used for human food or drink and articles used as components of any of those articles.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 215.7
  "Nonfood product" means any article, material, substance, or product which is not food.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216
  (a) "Public utility" includes every common carrier, toll bridge corporation, pipeline corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewer system corporation,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216.2
  Notwithstanding Section 216, "public utility" does not include a motor carrier of property.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216.4
  "Cable television corporation" shall mean any corporation or firm which transmits television programs by cable to subscribers for a fee.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216.6
  "Cogeneration" means the sequential use of energy for the production of electrical and useful thermal energy. The sequence can be thermal use followed by power...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 216.8
  "Commercial mobile radio service" means "commercial mobile service," as defined in subsection (d) of Section 332 of Title 47 of the United States Code and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 217
  "Electric plant" includes all real estate, fixtures and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 218
  (a) "Electrical corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant for compensation within this state, except where electricity is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 218.3
  "Electric service provider" means an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation, as defined in Section 218,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 219
  "Express corporation" includes every corporation or person engaged in or transacting the business of transporting any freight, merchandise, or other property for compensation on the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 220
  "Freight forwarder" means any corporation or person who for compensation undertakes the collection and shipment of property of others, and as consignor or otherwise ships...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 221
  "Gas plant" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property, owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 222
  "Gas corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any gas plant for compensation within this state, except where gas is made...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 223
  "Heating plant" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224
  "Heat corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any heating plant for compensation within this state, except where heat is generated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.2
  "Landfill gas technology" means the process of extraction of gas or gaseous compounds from sanitary landfill areas which gas or compound was generated as a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.4
  (a) "Mobile data service" means the delivery of nonvoice information to a mobile device and includes nonvoice information communicated to a mobile telephony services handset,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.6
  "Motor carrier of property" means a motor carrier of property as defined in Section 34601 of the Vehicle Code.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 224.8
  "Network railroad transportation" means railroad transportation that is subject to the jurisdiction of the federal Surface Transportation Board pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 225
  "Passenger stage" includes every stage, auto stage, or other motor vehicle used in the transportation of persons, or persons and their baggage or express, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 226
  (a) "Passenger stage corporation" includes every corporation or person engaged as a common carrier, for compensation, in the ownership, control, operation, or management of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 227
  "Pipe line" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property, owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the transmission, storage, distribution,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 228
  "Pipeline corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any pipeline for compensation within this state. "Pipeline corporation" shall not include a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 228.5
  (a) The terms "qualifying small power producer," "small power production facility," and "qualifying small power production facility" have the same meaning as found in Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 229
  "Railroad" includes every commercial, interurban, and other railway, other than a street railroad, and each branch or extension thereof, by whatsoever power operated, together with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 230
  "Railroad corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any railroad for compensation within this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 230.3
  "Service area," for purposes of the operations of a telephone corporation, means a local access and transport area as defined and approved by the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 230.5
  "Sewer system" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate sewage collection, treatment, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 230.6
  "Sewer system corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any sewer system for compensation within this state.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 231
  "Street railroad" includes every railway, and each branch or extension thereof, by whatsoever power operated, being mainly upon, along, above or below any street, avenue,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 232
  "Street railroad corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any street railroad for compensation within this State, or owning, controlling, operating,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 233
  "Telephone line" includes all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 234
  (a) "Telephone corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telephone line for compensation within this state. (b) "Telephone corporation" does...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 235
  "Telegraph line" includes all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 236
  "Telegraph corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telegraph line for compensation within this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 237
  "Toll-bridge corporation" includes every private corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any bridge or appurtenance thereto, used for the transportation of persons or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 238
  (a) "Vessel" includes every species of watercraft, by whatsoever power operated, which is owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 240
  "Water system" includes all reservoirs, tunnels, shafts, dams, dikes, headgates, pipes, flumes, canals, structures, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 241
  "Water corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any water system for compensation within this State.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 243
  This part shall not release or waive any right of action by the State, the commission, or any person or corporation for any right, penalty,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 244
  No transit district, common carrier, or publicly owned transit system shall require any person to waive, limit, or qualify any right to recover damages for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 246
  A person or corporation shall not be a public utility subject to the jurisdiction, control and regulation of the commission and the provisions of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 247
  Any provision of this part that is in conflict with the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, (47 U.S.C. Sec. 332(c)(3)) shall not apply to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 247.1
  (a) The Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act (P.L. 106-252) was enacted for the purpose of establishing nationwide uniform sourcing rules for the imposition of state and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 248
  Any provision of the Public Utilities Act that is in conflict with the railroad provisions of Part A of Subtitle 4 of Title 49 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 270
  (a) The following funds are hereby created in the State Treasury: (1) The California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund. (2) The California High-Cost Fund-B Administrative...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 270.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission may authorize the trustee of the California High-Cost Fund-B Trust to transfer to the Deaf Equipment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 271
  For each advisory board created pursuant to this chapter all of the following are applicable: (a) The commission shall establish the number of, and qualifications...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 273
  Each advisory board created pursuant to this chapter shall do both of the following: (a) Submit an annual budget to the commission. Within 90 calendar...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 274
  The commission may on its own order, whenever it determines it to be necessary, conduct financial audits of the revenues required to be collected and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 275
  (a) There is hereby created the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee, which is an advisory board to advise the commission regarding the development, implementation, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 276
  (a) There is hereby created the California High-Cost Fund-B Administrative Committee, which is an advisory board to advise the commission regarding the development, implementation, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 276.5
  (a) The commission shall establish a grant program to aid in the establishment of telecommunications service in areas not currently served by existing local exchange...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 277
  (a) There is hereby created the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service Trust Administrative Committee, which is an advisory board to advise the commission regarding the development,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 278
  (a) (1) Commencing on July 1, 2003, there is hereby created the Telecommunications Access for Deaf and Disabled Administrative Committee, formerly the Deaf and Disabled...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 278.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that existing members of the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee should serve out their current...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 279
  (a) There is hereby created the Payphone Service Providers Committee, which is an advisory board to advise the commission regarding the development, implementation, and administration...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 280
  (a) The commission shall develop, implement, and administer a program to advance universal service by providing discounted rates to qualifying schools, libraries, hospitals, health clinics,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 280.5
  (a) Of the revenues from fees collected pursuant to Section 14666.8 of the Government Code after the operative date of this section, except for revenues...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 281
  Any revenues that are deposited in funds created pursuant to this chapter shall not be used by the state for any purpose other than as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 301
  The membership of the Public Utilities Commission, and the qualifications and tenure of the members of the commission are as provided in Section 1 of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 302
  Each commissioner shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 303
  (a) A public utilities commissioner may not hold an official relation to, nor have a financial interest in, a person or corporation subject to regulation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 304
  The annual salary of each commissioner is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 305
  The Governor shall designate a president of the commission from among the members of the commission. The president shall direct the executive director, the attorney,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 306
  (a) The office of the commission shall be in the City and County of San Francisco. The office shall always be open, legal holidays and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 307
  (a) The commission may appoint as attorney to the commission an attorney at law of this state, who shall hold office during the pleasure of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 308
  (a) The commission shall appoint an executive director, who shall hold office during its pleasure. The executive director shall be responsible for the commission's executive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 308.5
  Persons employed as investigators and investigator supervisors of the Consumer Services Division or the Rail Safety and Carrier Division of the commission who are designated...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309
  The executive director may employ such officers, administrative law judges, experts, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks, and employees as the executive director deems necessary to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309.1
  (a) The Governor may appoint one adviser for each member of the commission upon the request of the commission member. Each adviser shall receive a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309.5
  (a) There is within the commission a Division of Ratepayer Advocates to represent and advocate on behalf of the interests of public utility customers and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309.6
  (a) The commission shall adopt procedures on the disqualification of administrative law judges due to bias or prejudice similar to those of other state agencies...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 309.7
  (a) The division of the commission responsible for consumer protection and safety shall be responsible for inspection, surveillance, and investigation of the rights-of-way, facilities, equipment,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 310
  No vacancy in the commission impairs the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the commission. A majority of the commissioners...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 311
  (a) The commission, each commissioner, the executive director, and the assistant executive directors may administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and issue subpoenas for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 311.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission shall not consider or require, in determining qualified bidders for, or in awarding contracts, that any facilities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 311.4
  (a) On or after July 1, 2001, the commission shall establish procedures to permit the submission of informal complaints through electronic means in accordance with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 311.5
  (a) (1) Prior to commencement of any meeting at which commissioners vote on items on the public agenda the commission shall make available to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 312
  The commission and each commissioner may issue writs of summons, subpenas, warrants of attachment, warrants of commitment, and all necessary process in proceedings for contempt,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 313
  The commission may require, by order served on any public utility, the production within this State at such time and place as it designates, of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 314
  (a) The commission, each commissioner, and each officer and person employed by the commission may, at any time, inspect the accounts, books, papers, and documents...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 314.5
  The commission shall inspect and audit the books and records for regulatory and tax purposes (a) at least once in every three years in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 315
  The commission shall investigate the cause of all accidents occurring within this State upon the property of any public utility or directly or indirectly arising...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 317
  The commission may request the local agency formation commission to advise it as to any special districts as defined in Section 54775 of the Government...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 320
  The Legislature hereby declares that it is the policy of this state to achieve, whenever feasible and not inconsistent with sound environmental planning, the undergrounding...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 321
  (a) The commission shall establish an office of the public advisor and shall appoint a public advisor, including a separate office in the Los Angeles...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 321.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission assess the economic effects or consequences of its decisions as part of each ratemaking, rulemaking,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 321.6
  The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Develop, publish, and annually update an annual work plan that describes in clear detail the scheduled...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 322
  (a) The commission shall periodically, at least once each year, compile its rules of procedure together with every order and decision of the commission relating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 322.5
  The commission shall determine, as part of the proceeding in Rulemaking 98-07-038 (Rulemaking for purposes of Revising General Order 96-A Regarding Informal Filings at the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 323
  (a) Commencing January 1, 1989, the commission shall cause the complete text of each of its orders and decisions to be published within a reasonable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 324
  The executive director of the commission may release to the Director of Industrial Relations any information concerning any person, corporation, or other entity under the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 324.5
  (a) The Public Utilities Commission shall publish any data it collects for its clearinghouse minority and women business data base that it deems to be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 325
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the commission should have the authority to act swiftly to expedite planning for the long-term recovery in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 327
  (a) The electric and gas corporations that participate in the California Alternative Rates for Energy program, as established pursuant to Section 739.1, shall administer low-income...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 328
  The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (a) In order to ensure that all core customers of a gas corporation continue to receive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 328.1
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Basic gas service" includes transmission, storage for reliability of service, and distribution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 328.2
  The commission shall require each gas corporation to provide bundled basic gas service to all core customers in its service territory unless the customer chooses...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 330
  In order to provide guidance in carrying out this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the intent of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 331
  The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Aggregator" means any marketer, broker, public agency, city, county, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 331.1
  For purposes of this chapter, "community choice aggregator" means any of the following entities, if that entity is not within the jurisdiction of a local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 332.1
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact Item 1 (revised) on the commission's August 21, 2000 agenda, entitled "Opinion Modifying Decision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 332.2
  Rates set by the commission that are subject to subdivision (f) of Section 332.1 may not result in any retroactive recovery of undercollections by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 332.2
  Rates set by the commission that are subject to subdivision (f) of Section 332.1 may not result in any retroactive recovery of undercollections by the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 334
  The Legislature finds and declares that in order to ensure the success of electric industry restructuring, in the transition to a new market structure it...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 335
  In order to ensure that the interests of the people of California are served, a five-member Electricity Oversight Board is hereby created as provided in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 336
  (a) The five-member Oversight Board shall be comprised as follows: (1) Three members, who are California residents and electricity ratepayers, appointed by the Governor from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 337
  (a) The Independent System Operator governing board shall be composed of a five-member independent governing board of directors appointed by the Governor and subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 338
  The Oversight Board shall have the exclusive right to approve procedures and the qualifications for Power Exchange governing board members specified in subdivision (d) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 339
  (a) The Oversight Board is the appeal board for majority decisions of the Independent System Operator governing board relating to matters that are identified in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 340
  The Oversight Board shall take the steps that are necessary to ensure the earliest possible incorporation of the Independent System Operator and the Power Exchange...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341
  The Oversight Board may do all of the following: (a) Meet at the times and places it may deem proper. (b) Accept appropriations, grants, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.1
  Regulations adopted within 120 days of the effective date of this section may be adopted as emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.2
  The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.3
  Voting members of the Oversight Board shall be required to file financial disclosure statements with the Fair Political Practices Commission. The appointing authority for voting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.4
  The Oversight Board shall appoint, and fix the salary of, an executive director who shall have charge of administering the affairs of the Oversight Board,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 341.5
  (a) The Independent System Operator and Power Exchange bylaws shall contain provisions that identify those matters specified in subdivision (b) of Section 339 as matters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 345
  The Independent System Operator shall ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the transmission grid consistent with achievement of planning and operating reserve criteria no...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 345.5
  (a) The Independent System Operator, as a nonprofit, public benefit corporation, shall conduct its operations consistent with applicable state and federal laws and consistent with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 346
  The Independent System Operator shall immediately participate in all relevant Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proceedings. The Independent System Operator shall ensure that additional filings at...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 347
  The Independent System Operator governing board may form appropriate technical advisory committees composed of market and nonmarket participants to advise the Independent System Operator governing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 348
  The Independent System Operator shall adopt inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement standards for the transmission facilities under its control no later than September 30, 1997....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 349
  The Independent System Operator shall perform a review following a major outage that affects at least l0 percent of the customers of the entity providing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 349.5
  (a) Beginning January 15, 2002, and at least once monthly thereafter, the Independent System Operator shall notify each air pollution control district and air quality...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 350
  The Independent System Operator, in consultation with the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 352
  The Independent System Operator may not enter into a multistate entity or a regional organization as authorized in Section 359 unless that entry is approved...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 352.5
  (a) The Independent System Operator shall make publicly available a list of all power plants located in the state that are not operational due to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 352.7
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to intentionally disclose proprietary information obtained in the negotiation, execution, or performance of a consulting services contract,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.1
  As used in this article, "distributed energy resources" means any electric generation technology that meets all of the following criteria: (a) Commences initial operation between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.2
  (a) As used in this article, "ultraclean and low-emission distributed generation" means any electric generation technology that meets both of the following criteria: (1) Commences...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.3
  (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation under the operational control of the Independent System Operator as of January 1, 2001, to modify its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.5
  Each electrical corporation, as part of its distribution planning process, shall consider nonutility owned distributed energy resources as a possible alternative to investments in its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.7
  Notwithstanding Section 353.3, nothing in this article may result in any exemption from reasonable interconnection charges, lead to any reduction in contributions by each customer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.9
  In establishing the rates required under this article, the commission shall create a firewall that segregates distribution cost recovery so that any net costs, taking...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.11
  A local publicly owned electric utility, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 9604, or a local publicly owned utility otherwise providing electrical service, shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.13
  (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation to establish new tariffs on or before January 1, 2003, for customers using distributed energy resources, including,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 353.15
  (a) In order to evaluate the efficiency, emissions, and reliability of distributed energy resources with a capacity greater than 10 kilowatts, customers that install those...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 355
  The Power Exchange shall provide an efficient competitive auction, open on a nondiscriminatory basis to all suppliers, that meets the loads of all exchange customers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 356
  The Power Exchange governing board may form appropriate technical advisory committees comprised of market and nonmarket participants to advise the governing board on relevant issues.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 359
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the evolution of the Independent System Operator and the Power Exchange into regional organizations...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 360
  The commission shall ensure that existing, and if necessary, additional filings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission request confirmation of the relevant provisions of this...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 360.5
  The commission shall determine that portion of each existing electrical corporation's retail rate effective on January 5, 2001, that is equal to the difference between...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 361
  The commission shall ensure that any funds secured by the restructuring trusts established for the purposes of developing the Independent System Operator and the Power...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 362
  (a) In proceedings pursuant to Section 455.5, 851, or 854, the commission shall ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electric supply...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 363
  (a) In order to ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of public utility electric generating facilities, the commission shall require in any proceeding under...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 364
  (a) The commission shall adopt inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement standards for the distribution systems of investor-owned electric utilities no later than March 31, 1997....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 365
  The actions of the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be consistent with the findings and declarations contained in Section 330. In addition, the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 365.5
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the commission from exercising its authority to investigate a process for certification and regulation of the rates, charges, terms,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 366
  (a) The commission shall take actions as needed to facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and end-use customers. Customers shall be entitled to aggregate their...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 366.1
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Department" means the Department of Water Resources with respect to its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 366.2
  (a) (1) Customers shall be entitled to aggregate their electric loads as members of their local community with community choice aggregators. (2) Customers may aggregate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 366.5
  (a) No change in the aggregator or supplier of electric power for any small commercial customer may be made until one of the following means...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 367
  The commission shall identify and determine those costs and categories of costs for generation-related assets and obligations, consisting of generation facilities, generation-related regulatory assets, nuclear...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 367.3
  (a) For purposes of this section, a "qualifying direct transaction customer" means any customer that meets each of the following requirements: (1) The customer entered...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 367.7
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to ensure that individual customers do not experience rate increases as a result...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 368
  Each electrical corporation shall propose a cost recovery plan to the commission for the recovery of the uneconomic costs of an electrical corporation's generation-related assets...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 368.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the termination of the 10-percent rate reduction for residential and small commercial customers set forth in subdivision...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 369
  The commission shall establish an effective mechanism that ensures recovery of transition costs referred to in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, and subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 370
  The commission shall require, as a prerequisite for any consumer in California to engage in direct transactions permitted in Section 365, that beginning with the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 371
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 372 and 374, the uneconomic costs provided in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376 shall be applied to each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 372
  (a) It is the policy of the state to encourage and support the development of cogeneration as an efficient, environmentally beneficial, competitive energy resource that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 373
  (a) Electrical corporations may apply to the commission for an order determining that the costs identified in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376 not be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 374
  (a) In recognition of statutory authority and past investments existing as of December 20, 1995, and subject to the firewall specified in subdivision (e) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 374.5
  Any electrical corporation serving agricultural customers that have multiple electric meters shall conduct research based on a statistically valid sample of those customers and meters...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 375
  (a) In order to mitigate potential negative impacts on utility personnel directly affected by electric industry restructuring, as described in Decision 95-12-063, as modified by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 376
  To the extent that the costs of programs to accommodate implementation of direct access, the Power Exchange, and the Independent System Operator, that have been...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 377
  The commission shall continue to regulate the facilities for the generation of electricity owned by any public utility prior to January 1, 1997, that are...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 377.1
  Section 377 does not apply to the four run-of-river hydroelectric project works located on the Truckee River, as referenced in Section 210(b)(17) of Public Law...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 377.2
  Notwithstanding Section 377, a facility for the generation of electricity, or an interest in a facility for the generation of electricity, that is located outside...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 378
  The commission shall authorize new optional rate schedules and tariffs, including new service offerings, that accurately reflect the loads, locations, conditions of service, cost of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379
  Nuclear decommissioning costs shall not be part of the costs described in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, but shall be recovered as a nonbypassable...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or before March 7, 2001, the commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall take all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379.6
  (a) (1) The commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall administer, until January 1, 2012, the self-generation incentive program...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 379.7
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the demonstration project authorized pursuant to this section, at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, to determine actual energy and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 380
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities. (b) In establishing resource adequacy requirements,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 381
  (a) To ensure that the funding for the programs described in subdivision (b) and Section 382 are not commingled with other revenues, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 381.1
  (a) No later than July 15, 2003, the commission shall establish policies and procedures by which any party, including, but not limited to, a local...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 381.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature to protect and strengthen the current network of community service providers by doing the following: (a) Directing that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 382
  (a) Programs provided to low-income electricity customers, including, but not limited to, targeted energy-efficiency services and the California Alternate Rates for Energy program shall be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 382.1
  (a) There is hereby established a Low-Income Oversight Board that shall advise the commission on low-income electric, gas, and water customer issues and shall serve...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 384
  (a) Funds transferred to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission pursuant to this article for purposes of public interest research, development, and demonstration...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 384.2
  The commission shall submit a report to the Legislature by July 15, 2009, and triennially thereafter, on the energy efficiency and conservation programs it oversees....
• California Public Utilities Code Section 385
  (a) Each local publicly owned electric utility shall establish a nonbypassable, usage based charge on local distribution service of not less than the lowest expenditure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 386
  (a) Each local publicly owned electric utility shall ensure the following: (1) Low-income families within the utility's service territory have access to affordable electricity. (2)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 387
  (a) Each governing body of a local publicly owned electric utility, as defined in Section 9604, shall be responsible for implementing and enforcing a renewables...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 387.5
  (a) In order to further the state goal of encouraging the installation of 3,000 megawatts of photovoltaic solar energy in California within 10 years, the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 388
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state agency may enter into an energy savings contract with a qualified energy service company for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 389
  (a) The Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with interested stakeholders including relevant state and federal agencies, boards, and commissions, shall evaluate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 390
  (a) Subject to applicable contractual terms, energy prices paid to nonutility power generators by a public utility electrical corporation based upon the commission's prescribed "short...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 390.1
  Any nonutility power generator using renewable fuels that has entered into a contract with an electrical corporation prior to December 31, 2001, specifying fixed energy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 391
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Electricity is essential to the health, safety, and economic well-being of all California consumers. (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 392
  (a) (1) Electrical corporations shall disclose each component of the electrical bill as follows: (A) The total charges associated with transmission and distribution, including that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 392.1
  (a) The commission shall compile and regularly update the following information: names and contact numbers of registered providers, information to assist consumers in making service...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 393
  (a) The commission shall conduct a pilot study of the residential and small commercial customers of each electrical corporation, where the rate level established in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394
  (a) As used in this section, "electric service provider" means an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.1
  (a) The registration shall be deemed approved and a registration number issued no later than 45 days after the required information has been submitted, unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.2
  (a) The commission shall accept, compile, and attempt to informally resolve consumer complaints regarding electric service providers. Where the commission reasonably suspects a pattern of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.25
  (a) The commission may enforce the provisions of Sections 2102, 2103, 2104, 2105, 2107, 2108, and 2114 against electric service providers as if those electric...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.27
  When a customer files a claim with an electrical corporation for damages to property resulting from the curtailment of electric service due to the failure...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.3
  In order to carry out essential elements of a sustainable and effective consumer protection program in connection with electric service providers offering electrical service to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.4
  Rules that implement the following minimum standards shall be adopted by the commission for electric service providers offering electrical services to residential and small commercial...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.5
  (a) Except for an electrical corporation as defined in Section 218, or a local publicly owned electric utility as defined in subdivision (d) of Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.6
  For purposes of this article, service territory of a local publicly owned electric utility means within the boundaries of its service territory as it existed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.7
  (a) The commission shall maintain a list of residential and small commercial customers who do not wish to be solicited by telephone, by an electric...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, requirements placed on an electric service provider shall not apply to electrical services provided by a local publicly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 394.9
  Unclaimed refunds ordered by the commission, and any accrued interest, may be used by the commission to fund additional consumer protection efforts.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 395
  (a) In addition to any other right to revoke an offer, residential and small commercial customers of electrical service, as defined in subdivision (h) of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 395.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Nonprofit charitable organization" means any charitable organization described in Section 501(c)(3)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 396
  (a) A consumer damaged by a violation of this article by an electric service provider is entitled to recover all of the following: (1) Actual...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 397
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 368, to ensure the continued safe and reliable provision of electric service during the transition to competition, and to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a need for reliable, accurate, and timely information regarding fuel sources for electric generation offered for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.2
  The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this article. (a) "System operator" means the Independent System Operator with responsibility for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.3
  (a) Beginning January 1, 1998, or as soon as practicable thereafter, each generator that provides meter data to a system operator shall report to the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.4
  (a) Every retail supplier that makes an offering to sell electricity that is consumed in California shall disclose its electricity sources. A retail supplier that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 398.5
  (a) Retail suppliers that disclose specific purchases pursuant to Section 398.4 shall report on March 1, 1999, and annually thereafter, to the California Energy Resources...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399
  (a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Reliable Electric Service Investments Act. (b) The Legislature finds and declares that safe,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.1
  (a) As used in this article, the term "Energy Commission" means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. (b) As used in this article,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.2
  (a) (1) It is the policy of this state, and the intent of the Legislature, to reaffirm that each electrical corporation shall continue to operate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.25
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision in Sections 1001 to 1013, inclusive, an application of an electrical corporation for a certificate authorizing the construction of new...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.3
  Nothing in Section 399.2 shall be construed to preclude any of California's local publicly owned electric utilities from exercising authority to operate their electric distribution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.4
  (a) (1) In order to ensure that prudent investments in energy efficiency continue to be made that produce cost-effective energy savings, reduce customer demand, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.8
  (a) In order to ensure that the citizens of this state continue to receive safe, reliable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable electric service, it is the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.9
  (a) No part of this article shall be construed to alter or affect the low-income funding provisions set forth in Section 382. Programs provided to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.11
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) In order to attain a target of generating 20 percent of total retail sales of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.12
  For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Conduit hydroelectric facility" means a facility for the generation of electricity that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.12.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 399.12, a small hydroelectric generation facility that satisfies the criteria for an eligible renewable energy resource pursuant to Section...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.13
  The Energy Commission shall do all of the following: (a) Certify eligible renewable energy resources that it determines meet the criteria described in subdivision (b)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.14
  (a) (1) The commission shall direct each electrical corporation to prepare a renewable energy procurement plan that includes the matter in paragraph (3), to satisfy...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.15
  (a) In order to fulfill unmet long-term resource needs, the commission shall establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all electrical corporations to procure a minimum...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.16
  (a) The commission, by rule, may authorize the use of renewable energy credits to satisfy the requirements of the renewables portfolio standard established pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.17
  (a) Subject to the provisions of this section, the requirements of this article apply to an electrical corporation with 60,000 or fewer customer accounts in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 399.20
  (a) It is the policy of this state and the intent of the Legislature to encourage energy production from renewable energy resources at public water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 401
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the public interest is best served by a commission that is appropriately funded and staffed, that can thoroughly...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 402
  The Public Utilities Commission Utilities Reimbursement Account is hereby continued in existence. All fees collected by the commission pursuant to Section 431 shall be transmitted...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 403
  There is hereby created the Public Utilities Commission Transportation Reimbursement Account in the General Fund. All fees collected by the commission pursuant to Section 421...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 404
  (a) All fees paid pursuant to this chapter, exclusive of any penalties for delinquency, shall be allowed by the commission in a separate order as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 405
  If any person or corporation subject to this chapter is in default of the preparation and submission of any report or the payment of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 406
  The commission may bring an action, in its own name or in the name of the people of the state, in any court of competent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 407
  The commission shall authorize refunds of the fees provided for in this chapter when the fees were collected in error.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 408
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees and charges collected by the commission pursuant to this code from each common carrier and related business...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 409
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees and charges collected pursuant to this code by the commission from each public utility subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 409.5
  The commission shall maintain those records as are necessary to account separately for all fees and charges, including the fees authorized by Section 431, received...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 410
  The commission may establish rules and regulations that it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 421
  (a) The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by every passenger stage corporation, charter-party carrier of passengers, pipeline corporation, for-hire vessel operator,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 422
  The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 421 with the approval of the Department of Finance and in accordance with all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 422.1
  In addition to the requirements of Section 422, the commission may establish a uniform annual fee to be paid by every charter-party carrier of passengers.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 423
  Except as provided in Section 404, every carrier and related business subject to Section 421 shall make the payments of the required fee in accordance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 424
  As used in this article: (a) "Class" means a group of carriers or related businesses as specified by the commission for purposes of establishing the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 425
  The employees, representatives, and inspectors of the commission may, under its order or direction, inspect and examine any books, accounts, records, memoranda, documents, papers, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 426
  The commission shall use all moneys paid into the Public Utilities Commission Transportation Reimbursement Account by charter-party carriers in connection with charter bus transportation, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 431
  The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by every electrical, gas, telephone, telegraph, water, sewer system, and heat corporation and every other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 432
  The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 431 with the approval of the Department of Finance and in accordance with all of the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 432.5
  (a) The commission shall report to the Legislature the collections from each class of utility and expenditures, both direct and indirect, for regulatory and other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 433
  Except as provided in Section 404, every public utility subject to Section 431 shall make payment of the required fee in accordance with the following...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 434
  (a) The commission may require every public utility subject to this article to furnish information and reports to the commission, at the time or times...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 435
  As used in this article: (a) "Class" means a group of public utilities as specified by the commission for purposes of establishing fees pursuant to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 440
  (a) For purposes of this article, "state franchise," "video service," and "video service provider" shall have the same meaning as those terms are defined in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 441
  The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by an applicant or holder of a state franchise pursuant to Division 2.5 (commencing with...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 442
  (a) The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 441 with the approval of the Department of Finance. The commission shall specify the amount...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 443
  (a) The commission may require a video service provider subject to this article to furnish information and reports to the commission, at the time or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 444
  (a) If a video service provider subject to this article is in default of the payment of any fee required by this article for a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 451
  All charges demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 451.5
  (a) Any expense resulting from a bonus paid to an executive officer of a public utility that has ceased to pay its debts in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 452
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from establishing and charging a lower than a maximum reasonable rate for the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 453
  (a) No public utility shall, as to rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 453.5
  Whenever the commission orders rate refunds to be distributed, the commission shall require public utilities to pay refunds to all current utility customers, and, when...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454
  (a) Except as provided in Section 455, no public utility shall change any rate or so alter any classification, contract, practice, or rule as to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if a customer with a maximum peak electrical demand in excess of 20 kilowatts located or planning to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.2
  Notwithstanding Section 454, the commission may establish a "zone of rate freedom" for any passenger stage transportation service which is operating in competition with other...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.3
  The commission may, after a hearing, approve an increase of from one-half of 1 percent to 1 percent in the rate of return otherwise allowed...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.4
  The commission shall establish rates for gas which is utilized in cogeneration technology projects not higher than the rates established for gas utilized as a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.5
  (a) The commission shall specify the allocation of electricity, including quantity, characteristics, and duration of electricity delivery, that the Department of Water Resources shall provide...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.55
  The commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and establish efficiency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.56
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.6
  (a) A contract entered into pursuant to Section 454.5 by an electrical corporation for the electricity generated by a replacement or repowering project that meets...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.7
  The commission shall, to the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with Section 2771, provide cogeneration technology projects with the highest possible priority for...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.8
  In any decision establishing rates for an electrical or gas corporation reflecting the reasonable and prudent costs of the new construction of any addition to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 454.9
  (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to establish catastrophic event memorandum accounts and to record in those accounts the costs of the following: (1)...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455
  Whenever any schedule stating an individual or joint rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule, not increasing or resulting in an increase in any rate, is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455.1
  Whenever a water corporation files with the commission, pursuant to an advice letter submitted in accordance with commission procedures for this means of submission, a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455.2
  (a) The commission shall issue its final decision on a general rate case application of a water corporation with greater than 10,000 service connections in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to Section 454, no later than January 1, 1998, the commission shall adopt rules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 455.5
  (a) In establishing rates for any electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation, the commission may eliminate consideration of the value of any portion of any...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 456
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any public utility from profiting, to the extent permitted by the commission, from any economies, efficiencies,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 458
  (a) No common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall, by means of known false...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 459
  (a) No person or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, by any false statement or representation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 460.3
  (a) The commission shall prohibit any passenger stage corporation from charging any fare to, or imposing any other charge on, any physically disabled or handicapped...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 460.7
  (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every passenger stage corporation shall file with the commission one of the following: (1) A certificate of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 461.2
  For purposes of establishing rates for a telephone or telegraph corporation, the commission shall include all revenues and expenses of the corporation from the installation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 461.5
  (a) (1) No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 462
  Every street or interurban railroad corporation shall upon such terms as the commission finds to be just and reasonable furnish to its passengers transfers entitling...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 463
  (a) For purposes of establishing rates for any electrical or gas corporation, the commission shall disallow expenses reflecting the direct or indirect costs resulting from...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 463.5
  (a) Section 463 does not require the commission to undertake a reasonableness review of recorded costs to determine the reasonableness of the costs of each...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 464
  (a) Reasonable expenditures by transmission owners that are electrical corporations to plan, design, and engineer reconfiguration, replacement, or expansion of transmission facilities are in the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 465
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), whenever any labor of a custodial or janitorial nature is not performed by the employees of a public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 466
  Pursuant to Section 465, the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and any subcontractor under him shall pay not less than the specified prevailing...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 467
  The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations shall enforce Section 466 in the same manner as provided for by Chapter...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 486
  (a) Every common carrier shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open to the public inspection schedules showing the rates, fares, charges,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 487
  The schedules shall plainly state the places between which property and persons will be carried, and the classification of passengers or property in force, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 488
  (a) Subject to such rules as the commission may prescribe, the schedules of carriers shall be produced and made available for inspection upon the demand...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 489
  (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, require every public utility other than a common carrier to file with the commission within the time...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 490
  (a) The commission may from time to time determine and prescribe by order changes in the form of the schedules referred to in this article...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 491
  Unless the commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made by any public utility in any rate or classification, or in any rule or contract...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 491.1
  Notwithstanding Section 491, the commission may authorize a passenger stage corporation, upon one day's notice, to reduce its rates and charges to not less than...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 492
  The names of the several public utilities which are parties to any joint tariff, rate, contract, or classification shall be specified in the schedule. Unless...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 493
  (a) No common carrier subject to this part shall engage or participate in the transportation of persons or property, between points within this state, until...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 494
  (a) No common carrier shall charge, demand, collect, or receive a different compensation for the transportation of persons or property, or for any service in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 495
  Every telegraph and telephone corporation shall print and file with the commission schedules showing all the rates and classifications for the transmission of messages or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 495.6
  (a) Any city, county, or city and county that levies a utility user tax on the consumption of telephone services, including, but not limited to,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 495.7
  (a) The commission may, by rule or order, establish procedures to allow telephone or telegraph corporations to apply for the exemption of certain telecommunications services...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 521
  As used in this article "employees" includes furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees of any common carrier subject to the provisions of this part, persons who...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 522
  Except as provided in this article, Sections 40180.5 and 99151 of this code, and Section 26002.5 of the Government Code, no common carrier subject to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 523
  When approved by the commission, a common carrier may give free or reduced rate transportation between points within this state to: (a) Its officers, agents,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 524
  (a) Any common carrier may issue free or reduced rate passenger transportation to the proprietors and employees of newspapers and magazines and the members of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 525
  All blind residents of California may be granted free transportation on all street cars and may be permitted to travel on all other common carriers...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 527
  Nothing in this part shall prevent the interchange of free or reduced rate transportation for passenger or express matter between common carriers, their officers, agents,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 528
  Nothing in this part shall prevent the interchange of free or reduced rate transportation for passengers or express matter between a common carrier and a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 529
  Nothing in this part shall prevent any of the following: (a) The issue of reduced rate transportation by a common carrier to children attending an...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 530
  (a) Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this part may transport, free or at reduced rates, as follows: (1) Persons for the United...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 531
  Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this part may transport free or at reduced rates contractors and their employees engaged in carrying out...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 532
  Except as in this article otherwise provided, no public utility shall charge, or receive a different compensation for any product or commodity furnished or to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 533
  The officers and employees of the Operations and Safety Section of the Transportation Division of the commission, shall, when in the performance of their official...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 556
  Every common carrier shall afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the prompt and efficient interchange and transfer of passengers between the lines owned,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 558
  Every telephone corporation and telegraph corporation operating in this State shall receive, transmit, and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the conversations and messages of every...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 559
  (a) Nothing in Sections 556 to 558, inclusive, shall limit or modify the duty of a common carrier to establish joint rates, fares, and charges...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 560
  Upon the application of any shipper or receiver or contemplated shipper or receiver of freight for a connection between the railroad of a railroad corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 561
  (a) Every railroad corporation, passenger stage corporation, passenger air carrier, and street railroad corporation providing departures originating in this state shall prohibit the smoking of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 562
  (a) Whenever the commission, on its own motion or upon the complaint of a public utility, finds that public convenience and necessity require the use...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 581
  Every public utility shall furnish to the commission in such form and detail as the commission prescribes all tabulations, computations, and all other information required...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 582
  Whenever required by the commission, every public utility shall deliver to the commission copies of any or all maps, profiles, contracts, agreements, franchises, reports, books,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 583
  No information furnished to the commission by a public utility, or any business which is a subsidiary or affiliate of a public utility, or a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 584
  Every public utility shall furnish such reports to the commission at such time and in such form as the commission may require in which the...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 585
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), every public utility and business specified in subdivision (b) shall in any rate proceeding or proceeding establishing a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 587
  Every electrical, gas, and telephone corporation shall annually prepare and submit to the commission a report describing all significant transactions, as specified by the commission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 588
  (a) Notwithstanding any regulation, tariff, opinion, or interim opinion of the Public Utilities Commission, or any other provision of law, an inspector or investigator, as...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 600
  A public utility acquiring real property by eminent domain shall provide relocation advisory assistance and shall make any of the payments required of public entities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 610
  This article applies only to a corporation or person that is a public utility.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 611
  A railroad corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its railroad.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 612
  An electrical corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its electric plant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 613
  A gas corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its gas plant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 614
  A heat corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its heating plant.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 615
  A pipeline corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its pipeline.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 616
  A telephone corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its telephone line.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 616.1
  Notwithstanding Section 616, a telephone corporation may not condemn any property on an airport owned by a city and county, and located in another county,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 617
  A telegraph corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its telegraph line.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 618
  A water corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its water system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 619
  A wharfinger may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of facilities for the receipt or discharge of freight or passengers.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 620
  A common carrier, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 211, may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of facilities for its...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 621
  A street railroad corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its street railroad.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 622
  (a) As used in this section, "motor carrier" means: A passenger stage corporation as defined in Section 226. (b) As used in this section, "water...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 623
  A warehouseman may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its facilities for storing property.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 624
  A sewer system corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its sewer system.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 625
  (a) (1) (A) For the purpose of this article, except as specified in paragraph (4), a public utility that offers competitive services may not condemn...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 626
  On or after January 1, 2000, a public utility may not enter into any exclusive access agreement with the owner or lessor of, or a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 631
  In addition to the requirements of Article 1 (commencing with Section 1001) of Chapter 5 and any other provisions of law, the commission shall require...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 632
  For purposes of entering into contracts for consultant or advisory services, the requirements of Sections 11042 and 14615 of the Government Code and Sections 10295...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 635
  In a long-term plan adopted by an electrical corporation or in a procurement plan implemented by a local publicly owned electric utility, the electrical corporation...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701
  The commission may supervise and regulate every public utility in the State and may do all things, whether specifically designated in this part or in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that, in addition to other ratepayer protection objectives, a principal goal of electric and natural gas utilities' resource planning...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.3
  Until the commission completes an electric generation procurement methodology that values the environmental and diversity costs and benefits associated with various generation technologies, the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.4
  It is the policy of the state and the intent of the Legislature that state and municipal electric resource acquisition programs recognize and include a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.5
  With respect to financing arrangements which are established after January 1, 1988, no electrical, gas, or telephone corporation, whose rates are set by the commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.6
  (a) The commission may authorize gas and electrical corporations to include in ratepayer-supported research and development programs, activities that relate to improving the energy efficiency...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.8
  (a) To ensure that the commission regulated electric utilities do not operate their transmission and distribution monopolies in a manner that impedes the ability of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 701.10
  The policy of the State of California is that rates and charges established by the commission for water service provided by water corporations shall do...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 702
  Every public utility shall obey and comply with every order, decision, direction, or rule made or prescribed by the commission in the matters specified in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 703
  The commission may investigate all existing or proposed interstate rates, fares, tolls, charges, and classifications, and all rules and practices in relation thereto, for or...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 704
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, no foreign corporation, other than those which by compliance with the laws of this State are entitled to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 705
  Whenever in Articles 2 (commencing with Section 726), 3 (commencing with Section 761), and 4 (commencing with Section 791) a hearing by the commission is...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 708
  The commission shall require every electrical, gas, and telephone corporation to prepare and issue to every employee who, in the course of his or her...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 708.3
  Whenever a business transaction of an electrical, gas, water corporation with 10,000 or more service connections, or telephone corporation is such that a personal appearance...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the policies for telecommunications in California are as follows: (a) To continue our universal service commitment by assuring...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709.2
  (a) The commission shall authorize fully open competition for intrastate interexchange telecommunications service, otherwise known as intrastate interLATA, or intrastate service between local access and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all telecommunications markets subject to commission jurisdiction be opened to competition not later than January 1,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709.6
  Not later than January 1, 2000, the commission shall commence a proceeding to consider whether to establish a new regulatory framework that does all of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 709.7
  (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the California High Speed Internet Access Act of 1999. (b) The Public Utilities Commission...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 727
  It is the policy of the state that the use of all waterways, ports, and harbors of this state shall be encouraged, and to that...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 727.5
  (a) In establishing rates for water service, the commission shall consider, and may establish, separate charges for costs associated with customer service, facilities, variable operating...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728
  Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that the rates or classifications, demanded, observed, charged, or collected by any public utility for or in connection...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.1
  (a) For purposes of this section, "plant held for future use account" means account number 105 of the Uniform System of Accounts Prescribed for Public...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.2
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the commission shall have no jurisdiction or control over classified telephone directories or commercial advertising included as part...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.3
  (a) No telephone corporation operating within a service area shall remove any public telephone unless it has posted on the public telephone for not less...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.4
  A telephone corporation shall list a telephone number as the number for a facsimile machine in its alphabetical or classified directory only if requested to...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.5
  (a) The commission may establish rates or charges for the transportation of passengers and freight by railroads and other transportation companies, except motor carriers of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 728.7
  (a) Prior to authorizing any change in the amount of the payment required of a telephone corporation which provides service between service areas to a...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 729
  The commission may, upon a hearing, investigate a single rate, classification, rule, contract, or practice, or any number thereof, or the entire schedule or schedules...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 729.5
  A public utility, other than one-way radio paging services, shall not change a group of customers from one rate schedule to another rate schedule, if...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 730
  (a) The commission shall, upon a hearing, determine the kind and character of facilities and the extent of the operation thereof, necessary reasonably and adequately...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 730.3
  The commission shall notify every state and local public agency and corporation operating a passenger transit system making a written request for such notification before...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 730.7
  In determining reimbursement to railroad corporations for the operation of rail passenger service, the commission shall not exceed that compensation which would be payable if...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 730.8
  Whenever a state agency files with the commission an application for an increase in rates or fares or for any change in the level of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 732
  (a) Whenever the commission, after a hearing finds that the rates, fares, or charges in force over two or more common carriers, between any two...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 733
  (a) If the common carriers do not agree upon the division between them of the joint rates, fares, or charges established by the commission over...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 734
  When complaint has been made to the commission concerning any rate for any product or commodity furnished or service performed by any public utility, and...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 735
  If the public utility does not comply with the order for the payment of reparation within the time specified in the order, suit may be...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 736
  All complaints for damages resulting from the violation of any of the provisions of Sections 494 or 532 shall either be filed with the commission,...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 737
  All complaints for the collection of the lawful tariff charges or any part thereof, of public utilities may be filed in any court of competent...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 737.3
  (a) (1) A highway carrier, as defined by subdivision (c), a freight forwarder, a party representing a carrier or freight forwarder, or an assignee of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 738
  For the purpose of Sections 734 to 737, inclusive, the cause of action shall accrue upon the delivery or tender of delivery of the shipment...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 738.6
  In establishing rates for a public utility operating any portion of its line, plant, or system within a federally designated nonattainment area, the commission shall...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739
  (a) The commission shall designate a baseline quantity of gas and electricity which is necessary to supply a significant portion of the reasonable energy needs...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.1
  (a) The commission shall establish a program of assistance to low-income electric and gas customers, the cost of which shall not be borne solely by...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.2
  (a) The commission's program of assistance to low-income electric and gas customers shall also include the following facilities, provided the commission finds that the occupants...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.3
  (a) The commission shall develop, implement, and maintain a suitable program to establish a fair and equitable local rate structure aided by universal service rate...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.4
  (a) Any natural gas customer who enrolls in the CARE program after the effective date of this section, but before October 1, 2001, shall receive...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.5
  (a) The commission shall require that, whenever gas or electric service, or both, is provided by a master-meter customer to users who are tenants of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.6
  The commission shall establish rates using cost allocation principles that fairly and reasonably assign to different customer classes the costs of providing service to those...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.7
  In establishing residential rates, the commission shall retain an appropriate inverted rate structure. If the commission increases baseline rates pursuant to Section 739, revenues resulting...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.8
  (a) Access to an adequate supply of healthful water is a basic necessity of human life, and shall be made available to all residents of...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 739.10
  The commission shall ensure that errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material over or undercollections of the electrical corporations.
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740
  For purposes of setting the rates to be charged by every electrical corporation, gas corporation, heat corporation or telephone corporation for the services or commodities...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.1
  The commission shall consider the following guidelines in evaluating the research, development, and demonstration programs proposed by electrical and gas corporations: (a) Projects should offer...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.3
  (a) The commission, in cooperation with the State Energy Conservation and Development Commission, the State Air Resources Board, air quality management districts and air pollution...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.4
  (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to engage in programs to encourage economic development. (b) Reasonable expenses for economic development programs, as specified in...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.6
  (a) The commission may authorize investor-owned gas and electric utilities to match grants provided to nonprofit agencies and local governments to participate in the Department...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.7
  Interruptible service or curtailment programs adopted by the commission shall assure that the programs allow customers to aggregate multiple accounts to meet any minimum kilowatt...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.8
  As used in Section 740.3, "interests" of ratepayers, short- or long-term, mean direct benefits that are specific to ratepayers in the form of safer, more...
• California Public Utilities Code Section 740.9
  (a) Any optional binding mandatory curtailment program adopted by the commission that exempts customers from Stage 3 rotating outages in ex