California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities

Section 761.
Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of any public utility, or the methods of manufacture,...
Section 761.3.
(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 216 and subdivision (c) of Section 218.5, the commission shall implement and enforce standards for the maintenance and operation of...
Section 761.5.
(a) Where the commission determines that it would be cost-effective, the commission shall authorize electrical and gas corporations to participate in a centralized credit check system...
Section 762.
Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that additions, extensions, repairs, or improvements to, or changes in, the existing plant, equipment, apparatus, facilities, or other...
Section 762.5.
The commission, as a basis for making any order pursuant to the provisions of Section 762 relating to location of structures, shall give consideration to,...
Section 763.
(a) Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that any railroad corporation or street railroad corporation does not run a sufficient number of trains or cars,...
Section 765.
(a) When the federal National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) submits a safety recommendation letter concerning rail safety to the commission, the commission shall provide the NTSB...
Section 765.5.
(a) The purpose of this section is to provide that the commission takes all appropriate action necessary to ensure the safe operation of railroads in this...
Section 765.9.
Federal funds available to the commission for rail safety inspection and enforcement purposes shall be allocated to eligible passenger and freight rail activities on a...
Section 766.
Whenever the commission, after a hearing finds that a physical connection can reasonably be made between the lines of two or more telephone corporations or...
Section 766.5.
The commission shall investigate the practices of every telephone corporation in billing its subscribers for telephone calls, including, but not limited to, whether a corporation...
Section 767.
Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint of a public utility affected, finds that public convenience and necessity...
Section 767.5.
(a) As used in this section:(1) “Public utility” includes any person, firm, or corporation, except a publicly owned public utility, which owns or controls, or in combination...
Section 767.7.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Legislature has encouraged, and continues to encourage, the rapid and economic development of telecommunications services to...
Section 768.
The commission may, after a hearing, require every public utility to construct, maintain, and operate its line, plant, system, equipment, apparatus, tracks, and premises in...
Section 768.5.
The commission may, after a hearing, by general or special orders, rules, or otherwise, require every cable television corporation to construct, maintain, and operate its...
Section 768.6.
(a) The commission shall establish standards for disaster and emergency preparedness plans within an existing proceeding, including, but not limited to, use of weather reports to...
Section 769.
(a) For purposes of this section, “distributed resources” means distributed renewable generation resources, energy efficiency, energy storage, electric vehicles, and demand response technologies.(b) Not later than July...
Section 769.5.
(a) The commission may establish an expedited distribution grid interconnection dispute resolution process with the goal of resolving disputes over interconnection applications that are within the...
Section 770.
The commission may after hearing:(a) Ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements, or service to be furnished, imposed, observed, and followed by...
Section 771.
The commissioners and their officers and employees may enter upon any premises occupied by any public utility, for the purpose of making the examinations and...
Section 772.
Any consumer or user of any product, commodity, or service of a public utility may have any appliance used in the measurement thereof tested upon...
Section 773.
Section 4200 of the Government Code shall not apply to a public utility under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of...
Section 774.
No water corporation which has undertaken to provide fire protection service, nor any employee of such corporation acting in the course and scope of his...
Section 775.
Whenever an electric or gas corporation sells fuel oil which is, or is reasonably expected to be, useful in the performance of its public utility...
Section 776.
(a) The commission shall, upon making the determination pursuant to subdivision (c), develop and implement performance reliability standards for all backup power systems installed on the...
Section 777.
(a) This section applies if there is a landlord-tenant relationship between the residential occupants and the owner, manager, or operator of the dwelling.(b) If an electrical, gas,...
Section 777.1.
(a) If an electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation furnishes residential service to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential structure, mobilehome park,...
Section 778.
The commission shall adopt rules and regulations, which shall become effective on July 1, 1977, relating to safety appliances and procedures for rail transit services...
Section 779.
(a) No electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation may terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the corporation first gives notice of the...
Section 779.1.
(a) Every electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation shall allow every residential customer at least 19 days from the date of mailing its bill for services,...
Section 779.2.
(a) No electrical, gas, heat, telephone, or water corporation may terminate residential service for nonpayment of any delinquent account or other indebtedness owed by the customer...
Section 779.3.
(a) A gas or electrical corporation shall not disconnect service for nonpayment by a residential customer receiving a medical baseline allowance pursuant to subdivision (c) of...
Section 779.5.
The decision of an electrical, gas, heat, telephone, or water corporation to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the...
Section 780.
No electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation shall, by reason of delinquency in the payment of its charges, terminate service on any Saturday, Sunday, legal...
Section 780.5.
The commission shall require every residential unit in an apartment house or similar multiunit residential structure, condominium, and mobilehome park for which a building permit...
Section 781.
(a) (1) Each water corporation with 500 or more service connections that is not subject to the requirements of Section 525, 526, 527, or 528 of the...
Section 781.5.
The commission may require a water corporation that furnishes potable water for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional use through less than 500 service connections that...
Section 782.
In order to encourage the development of geothermal resources in the State of California, the commission may, upon a complaint by a geothermal energy producer,...
Section 783.
(a) The commission shall continue to enforce the rules governing the extension of service by gas and electrical corporations to new residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial...
Section 783.5.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Disadvantaged community” means a San Joaquin Valley community that meets all of the...
Section 784.
For each gas corporation, the commission shall adopt pipeline access rules that ensure that each gas corporation provides nondiscriminatory open access to its gas pipeline...
Section 784.1.
(a) The Legislature requests that the California Council on Science and Technology undertake and complete a study analyzing the regional and gas corporation specific issues relating...
Section 784.2.
Before the exhaustion of the funds made available pursuant to the monetary incentive program for biomethane projects adopted in Decision 15-06-029 (June 11, 2015), Decision...
Section 785.
To the extent consistent with federal law and regulation and contractual obligations regarding other available gas, the commission shall, in consultation with the Division of...
Section 785.1.
(a) The commission shall require, after a hearing, every gas corporation to revise its transportation tariffs and conditions of service to eliminate all components that assess...
Section 785.2.
The commission shall investigate, as part of the rate proceeding for any gas corporation, impediments to the in-state production and storage of natural gas. The...
Section 785.5.
(a) The commission shall require every gas corporation to adopt and pursue purchasing and procurement practices which assure its customers the lowest rates consistent with security...
Section 785.7.
(a) No gas corporation shall charge, directly or indirectly, a higher rate for the transportation of gas produced in this state than for the transportation of...
Section 786.
(a) On or before March 1, 1984, and annually thereafter, every telephone corporation operating within a service area shall issue to each of its residential subscribers,...
Section 787.
(a) Any public utility, or its contractor, to whom an excavation permit has been issued by any local agency for the installation, removal, maintenance, or repair...
Section 788.
(a) This section applies only to a telephone corporation that is a provider of local exchange service.(b) On or before March 1, 1992, and annually thereafter, every...

Last modified: October 22, 2018