California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 1 - Hearings

• Section 1701.
  (a) All hearings, investigations, and proceedings shall be governed by this part and by rules of practice and procedure adopted by the commission, and in the...
• Section 1701.1.
  (a) The commission shall determine whether each proceeding is a quasi-legislative, an adjudication, or a ratesetting proceeding and, consistent with due process, public policy, and statutory...
• Section 1701.2.
  (a) This section shall apply to adjudication cases only.(b) If the commission pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1701.1 has determined that an adjudication case requires a...
• Section 1701.3.
  (a) This section shall apply only to ratesetting cases, except, if the commission pursuant to Section 1701.1 has determined that a ratesetting case does not require...
• Section 1701.4.
  (a) This section shall apply only to quasi-legislative cases, except, if the commission pursuant to Section 1701.1 has determined that a quasi-legislative case does not require...
• Section 1701.5.
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), in a ratesetting or quasi-legislative case, the commission shall resolve the issues raised in the scoping memo within 18...
• Section 1701.6.
  (a) In addition to any penalty, fine, or other punishment applicable pursuant to Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 2100), the commission may assess civil sanctions upon...
• Section 1701.7.
  (a) The Attorney General may bring an enforcement action in superior court against a decisionmaker or employee of the commission who knowingly and willfully violates, fails...
• Section 1702.
  Complaint may be made by the commission of its own motion or by any corporation or person, chamber of commerce, board of trade, labor organization,...
• Section 1702.1.
  (a) The commission shall entertain complaints against any electrical, gas, water, heat, or telephone company under Sections 734, 735, and 736 when the amount of money...
• Section 1702.2.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any funds entrusted to the commission by any person or corporation filing a complaint against a public utility shall...
• Section 1702.5.
  (a) The commission shall, in an existing or new proceeding, develop and implement a safety enforcement program applicable to gas corporations and electrical corporations which includes...
• Section 1703.
  All matters upon which complaint may be founded may be joined in one hearing, and no motion shall be entertained against a complaint for misjoinder...
• Section 1704.
  Upon the filing of a complaint, the commission shall cause a copy thereof to be served upon the corporation or person complained of. Service in...
• Section 1705.
  At the time fixed for any hearing before the commission or a commissioner, or the time to which the hearing has been continued, the complainant...
• Section 1706.
  A complete record of all proceedings and testimony before the commission or any commissioner on any formal hearing shall be taken down by a reporter...
• Section 1707.
  Any public utility may complain on any of the grounds upon which complaints are allowed to be filed by other parties, and the same procedure...
• Section 1708.
  The commission may at any time, upon notice to the parties, and with opportunity to be heard as provided in the case of complaints, rescind,...
• Section 1708.5.
  (a) The commission shall permit interested persons to petition the commission to adopt, amend, or repeal a regulation.(b) (1) The commission shall consider a petition and, within six...
• Section 1709.
  In all collateral actions or proceedings, the orders and decisions of the commission which have become final shall be conclusive.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
• Section 1710.
  No documents or records of a public utility or person or corporation which purport to be statements of fact shall be admitted into evidence or...
• Section 1711.
  (a) Where feasible and appropriate, except for adjudication cases, before determining the scope of the proceeding, the commission shall seek the participation of those who are...

Last modified: October 22, 2018