California Public Utilities Code CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes

• Section 7930.
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The explosive demand for new area codes in California requires more area codes to be established than...
• Section 7931.
  (a) This chapter is applicable to telephone corporations, including resellers, and to paging companies, hereafter referred to as providers.(b) For purposes of this chapter, “coordinator” means the...
• Section 7932.
  (a) Whenever a provider opens a new area code, it shall do all of the following:(1) If the new area code plan permits seven-digit dialing, provide for...
• Section 7933.
  The rate structure of any call originating in or made to an area code shall not change with the split of an area code into...
• Section 7934.
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The number of area codes in this state has more than doubled since 1991.(b) The proliferation of area...
• Section 7935.
  (a) The commission shall develop and implement any measures it determines to be available for telephone corporations that possess prefixes to efficiently allocate telephone numbers within...
• Section 7936.
  The commission shall direct the North American Numbering Plan Administrator to obtain utilization data for any area code for which a relief plan is proposed,...
• Section 7938.
  The commission shall require, as an interim measure until the commission develops procedures for number pooling or adopts utilization standards, that number assignments made by...
• Section 7939.
  (a) If the commission or an authorized federal agency establishes a process to ensure that telephone numbers can be allocated in blocks smaller than 10,000, the...
• Section 7940.
  A telephone corporation doing business in this state that possesses one or more telephone number prefixes, or portions thereof, shall provide to the commission or...
• Section 7943.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that when the commission has no reasonable alternative other than to create a new area code, that the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018