California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 3 - Utility Works and Services

• Section 16461.
  A district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use, within or without or partly within and partly without the district, works for supplying its...
• Section 16461.5.
  (a) The Shasta Dam Area Public Utility District may construct those public works necessary for the industrial and commercial development of any undeveloped property owned by...
• Section 16462.
  A district may also purchase any of such commodities or services from any other utility district, municipality, person, or private company, and distribute them.(Added by...
• Section 16463.
  A district may acquire, construct, own, complete, use, and operate a fire department, street lighting system, public parks, public playgrounds, golf courses, public swimming pools,...
• Section 16463.5.
  (a) A district may exercise any of the powers, functions, and duties which are vested in, or imposed upon, a fire protection district pursuant to the...
• Section 16464.
  A district may construct works across or along any street or public highway, or over any land which is the property of the state, and...
• Section 16465.
  A district may construct its works across any stream of water or watercourse.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 136.)
• Section 16466.
  A district using a street or highway shall restore it to its former state as nearly as possible and shall not unnecessarily impair its usefulness.(Added...
• Section 16467.
  Only revenue producing utilities shall be acquired, owned, or operated by a district. So far as possible the board shall fix such charges for commodities...
• Section 16467.1.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16467 of this code, fire departments, street lighting systems, public parks, public playgrounds, public swimming pools, public recreation buildings, buildings...
• Section 16468.
  Charges fixed by the board for commodities or services furnished may be made payable in advance.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 72.)
• Section 16469.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), charges unpaid at the time specified for the fixing of the rate of taxes may be added to and...
• Section 16470.
  Charges added to an assessment are a lien on the land, except that if, during the year preceding the date on which the first installment...
• Section 16471.
  If the assessment is divided and made payable in two installments, the unpaid charges may be added to and become a part of the first...
• Section 16472.
  When the board declares that charges are to be added to the annual assessment and the district is availing itself of assessments made by the...
• Section 16472.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 16469 to 16472, inclusive, and as an alternative to the procedures specified in those sections, a district may provide by resolution or ordinance...
• Section 16472.5.
  (a) In order to enforce the provisions of any ordinance of the district, including an ordinance fixing charges for the furnishing of commodities or services, the...
• Section 16473.
  Whenever there is a surplus of available water, light, heat, or power above that which is required by the inhabitants or municipalities within the district,...
• Section 16474.
  Whenever any of the facilities, works, or utilities of all or part of a district is not used or employed to its fullest capacity for...
• Section 16475.
  (a) A public utility district which acquires, constructs, owns, operates, controls or uses works for supplying its inhabitants with water, may, pursuant to the notice, protest,...
• Section 16476.1.
  (a) The Tahoe City Public Utility District may acquire, construct, install, maintain, improve, or operate public walkways, paths, sidewalks, trails, and public parking facilities if all...
• Section 16477.
  Notwithstanding Section 16475, the Board of Directors of the Fallbrook Public Utility District may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753...
• Section 16478.
  The Board of Directors of the Tahoe City Public Utility District, the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, and the Board...
• Section 16479.
  If the Board of Directors of the Tahoe City Public Utility District or of the North Tahoe Public Utility District determines to use all or...
• Section 16480.
  (a) Every district furnishing light, heat, or power shall expend no funds for advertising when such advertising encourages increased consumption of such services or commodities.(b) Nothing in...
• Section 16480.5.
  Whenever a business transaction of a public utility district furnishing electricity, gas, water service where the utility has 10,000 or more service connections, or telephone...
• Section 16481.
  (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 furnishes...
• Section 16481.1.
  (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 16481.6.
  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 16482.
  (a) No district furnishing its inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, or means for the disposition of garbage, sewage, or refuse matter may terminate residential service...
• Section 16482.1.
  (a) No district furnishing light, heat, water, or power, or means for the disposition of garbage, sewage, or refuse matter, may terminate residential service on account...
• Section 16483.
  No electrical, gas, heat, or water public utility district shall, by reason of delinquency in payment for any electric, gas, heat, or water services, cause...
• Section 16485.
  (a) A public utility district which acquires, constructs, owns, operates, controls or uses works for supplying its inhabitants with electricity, may fix and collect charges in...
• Section 16486.
  (a) In addition to all other powers, excepting telephone service, authorized by this division, the Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District may acquire, construct, own, and operate...
• Section 16487.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District may issue bonds and incur indebtedness pursuant to the Improvement Act of 1911...
• Section 16488.
  Every district shall comply with Section 8029.5.(Added by renumbering Section 16487 (as added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 549) by Stats. 1984, Ch. 193, Sec. 104.)
• Section 16489.
  The June Lake Public Utility District may exercise all of the powers of a mosquito abatement district or vector control district, as set forth in...

Last modified: October 22, 2018