California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 1 - Acquisition and Operation

• Section 10001.
  “Public utility” as used in this article, means the supply of a municipal corporation alone or together with its inhabitants, or any portion thereof, with...
• Section 10002.
  Any municipal corporation may acquire, construct, own, operate, or lease any public utility.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
• Section 10003.
  The power to acquire and operate a public utility includes the power to complete, reconstruct, extend, change, enlarge, and repair a public utility acquired, constructed,...
• Section 10004.
  For the purpose set forth in Sections 10002 and 10003 a municipal corporation may acquire, own, control, sell, or exchange lands, easements, licenses, and rights...
• Section 10004.5.
  (a) Except as provided for in subdivision (b), any judicial action or proceeding against a municipal corporation that provides electric utility service, to attack, review, set...
• Section 10005.
  Whenever, in the operation of a utility, a municipality develops an excess of water, light, heat, or power, over and above the amount which is...
• Section 10006.
  No lease of a public utility is valid for a period of more than 15 years, and all such leases shall be let to the...
• Section 10007.
  (a) Every public utility furnishing light, heat, or power shall expend no funds for advertising when such advertising encourages increased consumption of such services or commodities.(b) Nothing...
• Section 10009.
  (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 a public utility...
• Section 10009.1.
  (a) If a public utility furnishes light, heat, water, or power to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential structure, mobilehome park, or...
• Section 10009.6.
  (a) The decision of a public utility to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the public utility prior to establishing...
• Section 10010.
  (a) No public utility furnishing light, water, power, or heat may terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the public utility first gives...
• Section 10010.1.
  (a) No public utility furnishing light, heat, water, or power may terminate residential service on account of nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the public utility...
• Section 10011.
  No electrical, gas, heat, or water public utility shall, by reason of delinquency in payment for any electric, gas, heat, or water services, cause cessation...
• Section 10011.5.
  Whenever a business transaction of a public utility, as defined in Section 10001, furnishing electricity, gas, water service where the utility has 10,000 or more...
• Section 10012.
  Every public utility shall comply with Section 8029.5.(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 549, Sec. 2.)
• Section 10013.
  (a) Subsequent to signing a contingent franchise, license, or service agreement with a local agency, a privatizer shall apply to the commission for a determination that...
• Section 10014.
  The commission may enter into a contract with a local agency to provide any technical assistance needed to comply with Section 10013, if the contract...

Last modified: October 22, 2018