California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 1 - Generally

• 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...
• Section 701.1.
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that, in addition to other ratepayer protection objectives, a principal goal of electric and natural gas utilities’ resource planning and...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 of...
• Section 701.8.
  (a) To ensure that electrical corporations do not operate their transmission and distribution monopolies in a manner that impedes the ability of the San Francisco Bay...
• Section 701.10.a.
  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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 706.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Excess compensation” means any annual salary, bonus, benefits, or other consideration of any value,...
• Section 707.
  (a) Not later than March 1, 2012, the commission shall institute a rulemaking proceeding for the purpose of considering and adopting a code of conduct, associated...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 the continued...
• 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 transport...
• 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, 1997....
• 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...
• Section 710.
  (a) The commission shall not exercise regulatory jurisdiction or control over Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol enabled services except as required or expressly delegated...
• Section 712.
  (a) The commission shall convene, or continue, until August 26, 2025, an independent peer review panel to conduct an independent review of enhanced seismic studies and...
• Section 712.5.
  (a) (1) The commission shall cause an assessment to be completed by no later than July 1, 2018, of the adverse and beneficial economic impacts, and the...
• Section 714.
  (a) The commission, no later than July 1, 2017, shall open a proceeding to determine the feasibility of minimizing or eliminating use of the Aliso Canyon...
• Section 715.
  (a) The commission shall direct the operator of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility located in the County of Los Angeles to provide all information...
• Section 716.
  (a) If an incumbent local exchange carrier files a forbearance petition with the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to Section 10 of the federal Communications Act of...
• Section 717.
  (a) The commission shall require an electrical or gas corporation to do all of the following:(1) Develop a program no later than January 1, 2017, within the...
• Section 718.
  (a) The commission shall develop policies, rules, or regulations with a goal of reducing, by January 1, 2024, the statewide level of gas and electric service...

Last modified: October 22, 2018