California Public Utilities Code CHAPTER 2 - Street Railroads

  • Section 7801.
    Street railroads are governed by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7501), so far as it is applicable, unless street railroads are therein specially excepted.(Amended by...
  • Section 7802.
    When a street railroad is constructed, owned, or operated by any natural person, this chapter is applicable to such person in like manner as it...
  • Section 7803.
    Any street railroad or any street railway corporation may sell, lease, convey, exchange, transfer, or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property...
  • Section 7804.
    Authority to lay railroad tracks through the streets and public highways of any city or city and county may be obtained for a term of...
  • Section 7805.
    The city governing body, in granting the right of way to a street railroad corporation, in addition to the restrictions which they are authorized to...
  • Section 7806.
    The legislative body of any city or city and county may permit two or more lines of street railway to use the same portion of...
  • Section 7807.
    Where the portion of the street is occupied by a track or tracks of a different gauge from the track or tracks proposed to be...
  • Section 7808.
    Any city or city and county may own and operate street railways within or without its corporate limits and may occupy the same street or...
  • Section 7809.
    Any proposed railroad track may be permitted to cross any track already constructed, the crossing being made as provided in Chapter 1 of this division....
  • Section 7810.
    Street railway cars shall be of the most approved construction for the comfort and convenience of passengers, and provided with brakes to stop them, when...
  • Section 7811.
    Cities in or through which street railroads run may make such further regulations for the government of the street railroads as may be necessary to...
  • Section 7812.
    In every grant to construct street railroads, the right to grade, sewer, pave, macadamize, or otherwise improve, alter, or repair the streets or highways, is...
  • Section 7813.
    The right to lay down a track for grading purposes and to maintain it for a period not to exceed three years may be granted...
  • Section 7814.
    Any corporation, or agent or employee thereof, demanding or charging a greater sum of money for fare on the cars of a street railroad than...
  • Section 7815.
    Every street railroad corporation shall provide, and on request furnish to all persons desiring a passage on its cars, any required quantity of passenger tickets...
  • Section 7816.
    Upon the trial of an action for any of the sums forfeited, as provided in Sections 7814 or 7815, proof that the person demanding or...
  • Section 7817.
    Any street railroad corporation operating cars on the streets of cities or on the county roads within the State for the conveyance of passengers, propelled...
  • Section 7818.
    Any person operating or driving a street car who becomes or is intoxicated while so engaged in operating or driving such street car is guilty...

Last modified: October 22, 2018