California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 5 - Utility Works and Service

• Section 12801.
  A district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use, within or without, or partly within or partly without, the district, works or parts of...
• Section 12802.
  A district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this division requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions of money, rights of way, labor, materials,...
• Section 12803.
  Except as provided in this division with reference to sewage disposal, a district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any existing utility...
• Section 12804.
  Whenever there is a surplus of water, light, heat, or power above that which is required by inhabitants or public agencies within a district, the...
• Section 12805.
  Whenever any of the facilities, works, or utilities of the district, or part thereof, is not used or employed to its fullest capacity for the...
• Section 12806.
  The district and any public agencies included therein may at any time enter into appropriate contracts for the use by any such public agencies of...
• Section 12807.
  A district may sell or otherwise dispose of any water, sewage effluent, fertilizer, or other by-product resulting from the operation of a sewage disposal system,...
• Section 12808.
  A district may construct works across or along any street or public highway, or over any of the lands which are the property of the...
• Section 12808.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 53091 and 65402 of the Government Code, Section 12808 of the Public Utilities Code and Section 1469 of the Streets and Highways Code...
• Section 12809.
  The rates and charges for commodities or service furnished by a district shall be fixed by the board. As far as possible utilities shall be...
• Section 12810.
  The board may provide that rates, tolls, and charges for any sewage disposal enterprise or service may be collected with the rates, tolls, and charges...
• Section 12811.
  The board may provide for the collection of fees, tolls, rates, rentals, or other charges in any lawful manner and may provide for collection by...
• Section 12811.1.
  (a) Except when prohibited by Section 12822.6, a district may, by resolution or ordinance, require the owner of record of real property within the district to...
• Section 12811.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a district may establish a temporary relief program for assistance to needy customers of the district who are financially...
• Section 12812.
  The board may apportion all or a portion of the expenses of operation and maintenance of any sewage disposal facilities constructed by the district, and...
• Section 12813.
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this article, the board may, in its discretion, finance any sewage disposal or solid waste resource recovery enterprise, the...
• Section 12814.
  A district may add fluorine or fluorine compounds to the water supply of the district only if the voters of the district have approved the...
• Section 12815.
  The board may call a special election at any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the proposition as to...
• Section 12815.1.
  The board shall adopt an ordinance, in accordance with Section 12815, calling an election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district...
• Section 12815.2.
  Petitions which meet the requirements of this article shall be certified as sufficient.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1098.)
• Section 12815.3.
  Before circulating the petition, its proponents shall publish a notice of intention to do so. The notice shall be accompanied by a printed statement, not...
• Section 12815.4.
  The petition shall declare that the public interest or necessity demands that a special election be called by the board of directors for the purpose...
• Section 12815.5.
  Any registered voter who is a resident of the district may circulate the petition anywhere within the district. Each section of the petition shall bear...
• Section 12815.6.
  The petition shall be filed by the proponents, or by any person or persons authorized, in writing, by the proponents. All sections of the petition...
• Section 12815.7.
  If the petition contains more than 500 signatures, the secretary shall, within 30 days from the date such petition is filed, verify such signatures by...
• Section 12815.8.
  In determining valid signatures from voter registration records, the secretary may use the duplicate file of affidavits or may check the signatures against facsimiles of...
• Section 12815.85.
  The secretary shall attach to the petition, a certificate showing the result of the signature examination, and shall notify the proponents of either the sufficiency...
• Section 12815.9.
  If the petition is found insufficient, no action shall be taken on it. However, the failure to secure sufficient signatures shall not preclude the later...
• Section 12816.
  (a) At least 90 days prior to the election provided for in Sections 12815 and 12815.1, notice of the election shall be published within the district....
• Section 12817.
  A district may, through contract or otherwise, construct, maintain, improve and operate public recreational facilities appurtenant to any water reservoir owned or operated by the...
• Section 12818.
  (a) No publicly owned utility shall commence the distribution or sale of water for municipal, domestic, industrial or similar purposes for, on, or to, any land...
• Section 12819.
  (a) Every district furnishing light, heat, or power shall expend no funds for advertising when the advertising encourages increased consumption of the services or commodities.(b) Nothing in...
• Section 12819.5.
  Whenever a business transaction of a municipal utility district furnishing electricity, gas, water service where the utility has 10,000 or more service connections, or telephone...
• Section 12820.
  (a) A district may employ a suitable security force. The employees of the district that are designated by the general manager as security officers shall have...
• Section 12821.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 117070 or 117120 of the Health and Safety Code, any violation of a rule or regulation of a district adopted pursuant to Section...
• Section 12821.5.
  (a)  Whenever residential light, heat, or power is furnished through a submeter system by a master-meter customer for sale to users who are tenants of...
• Section 12822.
  (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 district...
• Section 12822.1.
  (a) If a district furnishes residential light, heat, water, or power to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential structure, mobilehome park, or...
• Section 12822.6.
  (a) The decision of a district to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the district prior to establishing an account...
• Section 12823.
  (a) No district furnishing its inhabitants with light, water, power, or heat may terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the district first...
• Section 12823.1.
  (a) No district furnishing light, heat, water, or power may terminate residential service on account of nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the district first gives...
• Section 12824.
  No electrical, gas, heat, or water municipal utility district shall, by reason of delinquency in payment for any electric, gas, heat, or water services, cause...
• Section 12825.
  (a) A district furnishing light, heat, or power may engage in activities to reduce wasteful, uneconomical or unnecessary uses of energy, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 12826.
  Every district shall comply with Section 8029.5.(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 549, Sec. 3.)
• Section 12827.
  The board of a district that has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a population of 250,000...

Last modified: October 22, 2018