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Public Utilities Code - PUC

7,564 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 40240 — Bonds authorized by this chapter shall mature serially in amounts to be fixed by the board; except that payment shall begin not later than 10 years from the date thereof and shall be completed in not
• § 40241 — The bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the board determines, except that no bonds shall be issued of a denomination less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and shall be payable on the day
• § 40242 — The board may at any time prior to the issuance and sale of any bonds provide for the call and redemption of any or all of the bonds on any interest payment date prior to their fixed maturity at not e
• § 40243 — The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board or by such officer of the district as the board shall by resolution authorize and designate for that purpose.
• § 40245 — The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines.
• § 40246 — All premiums and accrued interest received on the sale of bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of principal of and interest on the bonds.
• § 40260 — All bonds including refunding bonds issued by a district are legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of all insurance companies, banks, both commercial and savings, and trust companies
• § 40261 — All bonds of the district, to the same extent as bonds of any other municipality, are legal for use by any state or national bank or banks in the state as security for the deposit of funds of the stat
• § 40263 — An action to determine the validity of bonds, including refunding bonds, may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
• § 40265 — As an alternative procedure for the raising of funds, the district may issue bonds, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the district, in the manner pro
• § 40266 — The district is a local agency within the meaning of the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 54300) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code).
• § 403 — There is hereby created the Public Utilities Commission Transportation Reimbursement Account in the General Fund.
• § 40300 — The district may levy and collect, or cause to be collected, taxes for any lawful purpose subject to a maximum limit of five cents ($0.
• § 40301 — If, in the opinion of the board, the transit operation revenues will not be sufficient for any and all lawful purposes, the board shall levy a tax for such purpose or purposes and fix the amount of mo
• § 40302 — The board shall, as part of the general tax levy as set forth in Section 40300 levy and collect annually until the district’s bonds are paid, or until there is a sum in the treasury of the district se
• § 40303 — The board may provide for the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes by the district, including the sale of property to the district for delinquent taxes, with penalties, interest, and cost.
• § 40304 — The board shall avail itself of the assessments made by the assessor of the county and of the assessments made by the State Board of Equalization for the county, and shall take such assessments as the
• § 40305 — In such case, the county auditor shall, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement, in writing, showing the total value of all property within the district
• § 40306 — The board shall, on or before the first day of September, fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred dollars ($100) using as a basis the value of property transmitted
• § 40307 — The board shall immediately, after fixing the rate of taxes as provided in Section 40306, transmit to the county auditor of the county a statement of the rate of taxes fixed by the board.
• § 40308 — The district’s taxes so levied shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes.
• § 40309 — Whenever any real property has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid to the district by the county treasurer in the proportion which th
• § 40310 — All taxes levied under this article are a lien on the property on which they are levied.
• § 40330 — Transactions and use taxes (to be designated in the ballot proposition set forth in Section 40334 as a “sales tax”) may be imposed by the board in accordance with the provisions of Part 1.
• § 40331 — Any transactions and use taxes ordinance adopted pursuant to this article shall be operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 120 days after the approval of such ord
• § 40332 — (a) The revenues from the taxes imposed pursuant to this article may be used for any lawful purpose of the district.
• § 40333 — The taxes authorized by this article shall not be imposed unless the board shall have authorized it by ordinance adopted by a vote of two-thirds of all members of the board and the ordinance shall be
• § 40334 — The actual wording of the proposition on any short form of ballot card, label, or other device, regardless of the system of voting used, shall read as follows: TRANSIT Authorizes the Orange County Tra
• § 40335 — The board is authorized to impose a maximum tax rate of 1 percent under this article and the board may state the maximum tax rate in terms of not to exceed 1 percent, or any lesser percentage thereof.
• § 40336 — The district is hereby authorized to issue revenue bonds, payable, in whole or in part, from revenues made available under this article.
• § 404 — (a) All fees paid pursuant to this chapter, exclusive of any penalties for delinquency, shall be allowed by the commission in a separate order as an ordinary operating expense for purposes of establis
• § 405 — If any person or corporation subject to this chapter is in default of the preparation and submission of any report or the payment of any fee required by this chapter for a period of 30 days or more, t
• § 40500 — The board may call an election any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether the district will be dissolved.
• § 40501 — The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall be held on the next established election date not less tha
• § 40502 — Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published.
• § 40503 — The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county electi
• § 40504 — The board shall canvass the vote.
• § 40505 — The board shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and for record in the office of the county recorder.
• § 40506 — Upon dissolution the right, title, and interest to property owned or controlled by the district situated within the limits of any city vests absolutely in the city.
• § 40507 — The board of supervisors is, ex officio, the governing body of the dissolved district.
• § 406 — The commission may bring an action, in its own name or in the name of the people of the state, in any court of competent jurisdiction, for the collection of delinquent fees estimated under Section 405
• § 40600 — The district may be consolidated with the Southern California Rapid Transit District organized and operating pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 30000) of this division, in the manner provided
• § 40601 — Whenever the board finds and determines that: (a) The Southern California Rapid Transit District is willing to annex the territory comprising the district; (b) The annexing district has adequate facil
• § 40602 — The board shall thereafter, by resolution setting forth the terms and conditions of the proposed contract at length, declare its intention to cause the agreement to be approved and effect consolidatio
• § 40603 — The resolution, together with a notice fixing the time and place for hearing thereon, shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district.
• § 40604 — At the hearing any interested person may file with the board written objections to the approval of the terms and conditions of the proposed contract or the consolidation, or both the proposed contract
• § 40605 — Upon the hearing, the board shall determine whether or not the terms and conditions of the contract will be approved and the consolidation effected, and shall hear and determine all objections thereto
• § 40606 — Any hearing on the agreement and consolidation may be adjourned from time to time by the board, not exceeding 30 days in all, without further notice other than an order entered upon the minutes of the
• § 40607 — If no protests are filed, or if the protests filed are overruled and denied by the board, the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve the terms and conditions of the agreement and proceed
• § 40608 — At any time after the board of directors of the district has finally approved the agreement the Board of Supervisors of Orange County shall cause an election to be held in the district to determine wh
• § 40609 — Notice of election shall be published once a week for two successive weeks (two publications) in a newspaper of general circulation published within the district, and shall either state that a copy of
• § 40610 — The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county electi
• § 40611 — If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were cast in favor of the consolidation, the proposition and all of the terms and con
• § 40612 — If the proposition fails to carry, the result shall be entered upon the minutes of the Board of Supervisors of Orange County.
• § 40613 — If the proposition receives the vote of the requisite majority of voters, the Board of Supervisors of Orange County shall enter in its minutes an order declaring the result of the election and shall t
• § 40614 — Upon receipt by the Southern California Rapid Transit District of a copy of the consolidation agreement properly executed by the district and Orange County the board of directors of the Southern Calif
• § 40615 — From and after the date of consolidation the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District shall levy upon all of the property in the former Orange County Transit District such
• § 40616 — The validity of any consolidating proceedings shall not be contested in any action unless the action is brought within three (3) months after the completion of the proceedings.
• § 40617 — Upon the completion of such consolidation procedure, the Orange County Transit District shall be deemed to be dissolved.
• § 407 — The commission shall authorize refunds of the fees provided for in this chapter when the fees were collected in error.
• § 408 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees and charges collected by the commission pursuant to this code from each common carrier and related business subject to Section 421 and from interst
• § 409 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees and charges collected pursuant to this code by the commission from each public utility subject to Section 431, with the exception of any penalt
• § 409.5 — The commission shall maintain those records as are necessary to account separately for all fees and charges, including the fees authorized by Section 431, received from each class of utility subject t
• § 410 — The commission may establish rules and regulations that it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• § 421 — (a) The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by every passenger stage corporation, charter-party carrier of passengers, pipeline corporation, for-hire vessel operator, common carrier v
• § 422 — The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 421 with the approval of the Department of Finance and in accordance with all of the following: (a) In its annual budget request, the commiss
• § 422.1 — In addition to the requirements of Section 422, the commission may establish a uniform annual fee to be paid by every charter-party carrier of passengers.
• § 423 — Except as provided in Section 404, every carrier and related business subject to Section 421 shall make the payments of the required fee in accordance with the following schedule: (a) Every carrier an
• § 424 — As used in this article: (a) “Class” means a group of carriers or related businesses as specified by the commission for purposes of establishing the fees pursuant to this article.
• § 425 — The employees, representatives, and inspectors of the commission may, under its order or direction, inspect and examine any books, accounts, records, memoranda, documents, papers, and correspondence k
• § 426 — The commission shall use all moneys paid into the Public Utilities Commission Transportation Reimbursement Account by charter-party carriers in connection with charter bus transportation, as defined i
• § 431 — (a) The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by every electrical, gas, telephone, telegraph, water, sewer system, and heat corporation and every other public utility providing service
• § 432 — The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 431 with the approval of the Department of Finance and in accordance with all of the following: (a) In its annual budget request, the commiss
• § 433 — Except as provided in Section 404, every public utility subject to Section 431 shall make payment of the required fee in accordance with the following schedule: (a) Every public utility with annual gr
• § 434 — (a) The commission may require every public utility subject to this article to furnish information and reports to the commission, at the time or times it specifies, to enable it to make the allocation
• § 435 — As used in this article: (a) “Class” means a group of public utilities as specified by the commission for purposes of establishing fees pursuant to this article.
• § 4351 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Gas” means natural or manufactured gas, except propane, used for light, heat, or power.
• § 4352 — (a) The commission shall undertake a gas safety inspection and enforcement program for mobilehome parks with distribution systems to ensure compliance with the federal pipeline standards by mobilehome
• § 4353 — (a) The commission shall conduct an initial inspection of each distribution system which shall take place on the mobilehome park premises.
• § 4354 — (a) Every operator shall prepare and submit to the commission annually a report on the distribution system.
• § 4354.5 — (a) Every operator shall maintain all of the following: (1) A map, drawing, or diagram which indicates the location of the distribution system’s main and service lines, master-meter, and the identity
• § 4355 — Except as specified in Section 4356, after each inspection, the commission shall furnish the operator, or a representative designated in writing by the operator, with a written copy of the inspection
• § 4356 — (a) If the commission determines the presence of a gas leak or other safety hazard in the distribution system which poses a significant or immediate danger to the health and safety of the park residen
• § 4357 — (a) Any operator who commits a violation enumerated in subdivision (f) of Section 4353, or who fails to file the report required by Section 4354 or to comply with a directive of the commission pursuan
• § 4358 — (a) The commission shall establish a uniform billing per space or lot surcharge to be paid by operators with distribution systems subject to this chapter on natural gas purchased for distribution to t
• § 4359 — The commission may adopt rules and orders to carry out this chapter.
• § 4360 — Nothing in this chapter affects the requirement that operators of liquefied petroleum gas (propane) master-meter systems supplying 10 or more customers from a single source comply with the applicable
• § 4361 — (a) In each mobilehome park, the operator shall post on the mobilehome park premises the current emergency telephone numbers for, at a minimum, the gas company, the fire department, and the responsibl
• § 440 — (a) For purposes of this article, “state franchise,” “video service,” and “video service provider” shall have the same meaning as those terms are defined in Section 5830.
• § 441 — The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by an applicant or holder of a state franchise pursuant to Division 2.
• § 442 — (a) The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 441 with the approval of the Department of Finance.
• § 443 — (a) The commission may require a video service provider subject to this article to furnish information and reports to the commission, at the time or times it specifies, to enable it to determine the f
• § 444 — (a) If a video service provider subject to this article is in default of the payment of any fee required by this article for a period of 30 days or more, the commission may suspend or revoke the state
• § 4451 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Supplier” means a person or corporation, other than a public utility, who sells propane and arranges for its delivery to the operator’s tank.
• § 4452 — (a) On or before July 1, 1995, the commission shall undertake a propane safety inspection and enforcement program for propane distribution systems to ensure compliance with the federal pipeline standa
• § 4453 — (a) The commission shall conduct an initial inspection of each distribution system which shall take place on the premises.
• § 4454 — (a) Every operator of a system serving 10 or more units or where any portion of the system is located in a public place, with the exception of mobilehome parks operators, shall prepare and submit to t
• § 4454.5 — (a) Every operator shall maintain all of the following: (1) A map, drawing, or diagram that indicates the location of the distribution system’s main and service lines, tank (or tanks), regulators, the
• § 4455 — Except as specified in Section 4456, after each inspection, the commission shall furnish the operator, or a representative designated in writing by the operator, with a written copy of the inspection
• § 4456 — (a) If the commission determines the presence of a propane leak or other safety hazard in the distribution system, which poses a significant or immediate danger to the health and safety of the distrib
• § 4457 — (a) Any operator who commits a violation enumerated in subdivision (f) of Section 4453 or who fails to file the report required by Section 4454 or fails to comply with a directive of the commission pu
• § 4458 — (a) The commission shall establish a surcharge to be paid by operators with distribution systems subject to this chapter on propane purchased for distribution to their customers.
• § 4459 — The commission may adopt rules and orders to carry out this chapter.
• § 4460 — (a) In each distribution system, the operator shall post on the premises the current emergency telephone numbers for, at a minimum, the operator, the supplier, the fire department, and the responsible
• § 4461 — Prior to January 1, 1996, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall adopt by reference the 1992 edition of NFPA 58 Standard for the Storage and Handling of Liquified Petroleum Gasses, o
• § 4462 — (a) This chapter hereby creates a trust fund known as the propane safety inspection and enforcement program trust fund.
• § 4463 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this chapter, as added by Chapter 388 of the Statutes of 1994, shall not be implemented unless sufficient federal funding has been annually appropriated to
• § 4464 — (a) The commission in administering the trust fund, shall be responsible for the identification of the pertinent operators and for the collection of the surcharges from the operators.
• § 4465 — (a) If any operator subject to this chapter is in default of the payment of the surcharge required by this chapter for a period of 30 days or more, the commission may estimate from all available infor
• § 451 — All charges demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or any service rendered or to be rendered shal
• § 451.1 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Covered wildfire” has the same meaning as defined in Section 1701.
• § 451.2 — (a) In an application by an electrical corporation to recover costs and expenses arising from, or incurred as a result of, a catastrophic wildfire with an ignition date in the 2017 calendar year, the
• § 451.3 — If the commission finds that an electrical corporation is requesting recovery of costs that were previously authorized by the commission for cost recovery by the electrical corporation, the commission
• § 451.5 — (a) Any expense resulting from a bonus paid to an executive officer of a public utility that has ceased to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business shall not be recoverable either directly or
• § 451.7 — (a) Nonbypassable or departing load surcharges, as defined by the commission, shall not apply to a reduction in kilowatthours of electricity that an electrical corporation customer consumes from the e
• § 451.8 — (a) Following the approval of each general rate case, the commission shall review which costs, if any, differed from the general rate case forecasts for each electrical corporation or gas corporation.
• § 451.9 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 451, a gas corporation may cease providing service in an area within its service territory where a pilot project has been implemented pursuant to Section 663 if the commiss
• § 452 — Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from establishing and charging a lower than a maximum reasonable rate for the transportation of property when the needs of commer
• § 453 — (a) No public utility shall, as to rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any corporation or person or subject any corporation or pe
• § 453.5 — Whenever the commission orders rate refunds to be distributed, the commission shall require public utilities to pay refunds to all current utility customers, and, when practicable, to prior customers,
• § 454 — (a) Except as provided in Section 455, a public utility shall not change any rate or so alter any classification, contract, practice, or rule as to result in any new rate, except upon a showing before
• § 454.1 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if a customer with a maximum peak electrical demand in excess of 20 kilowatts located or planning to locate within the service territory of an electrical cor
• § 454.2 — Notwithstanding Section 454, the commission may establish a “zone of rate freedom” for any passenger stage transportation service which is operating in competition with other passenger transportation
• § 454.3 — The commission may, after a hearing, approve an increase of from one-half of 1 percent to 1 percent in the rate of return otherwise allowed an electrical corporation on its electric plant for investme
• § 454.4 — The commission shall establish rates for gas which is utilized in cogeneration technology projects not higher than the rates established for gas utilized as a fuel by an electric plant in the generati
• § 454.5 — (a) The commission shall specify the allocation of electricity, including quantity, characteristics, and duration of electricity delivery, that the Department of Water Resources shall provide under it
• § 454.51 — The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Identify a diverse and balanced portfolio of resources needed to ensure a reliable electricity supply that provides optimal integration of renewable e
• § 454.52 — (a) (1) Beginning in 2017, and to be updated regularly thereafter, the commission shall adopt a process for each load-serving entity to file an integrated resource plan, and a schedule for periodic up
• § 454.53 — (a) It is the policy of the state that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 90 percent of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31
• § 454.54 — In addition to the requirements of Section 454.
• § 454.55 — (a) (1) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for an elec
• § 454.56 — (a) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for the gas cor
• § 454.57 — (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Accelerating Renewable Energy Delivery Act.
• § 454.58 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) California must dramatically increase the capacity of its electrical transmission and distribution systems to meet the goals of Section
• § 454.59 — (a) This section applies to the obligations on a state agency, except the State Water Resources Development System commonly known as the State Water Project, imposed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Sec
• § 454.6 — (a) A contract entered into pursuant to Section 454.
• § 454.7 — The commission shall, to the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with Section 2771, provide cogeneration technology projects with the highest possible priority for the purchase of natural g
• § 454.8 — In any decision establishing rates for an electrical or gas corporation reflecting the reasonable and prudent costs of the new construction of any addition to or extension of the corporation’s plant,
• § 454.9 — (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to establish catastrophic event memorandum accounts and to record in those accounts the costs of the following: (1) Restoring utility services to cu
• § 455 — Whenever any schedule stating an individual or joint rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule, not increasing or resulting in an increase in any rate, is filed with the commission, it may, ei
• § 455.1 — Whenever a water corporation files with the commission, pursuant to an advice letter submitted in accordance with commission procedures for this means of submission, a schedule stating rates, classifi
• § 455.2 — (a) The commission shall issue its final decision on a general rate case application of a water corporation with greater than 10,000 service connections in a manner that ensures that the commission’s
• § 455.3 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to Section 454, no later than January 1, 1998, the commission shall adopt rules and regulations that substantially revise the
• § 455.5 — (a) In establishing rates for any electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation, the commission may eliminate consideration of the value of any portion of any electric, gas, heat, or water generation or
• § 455.7 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Large electrical corporation” has the same meaning as defined in Section 3280.
• § 456 — Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any public utility from profiting, to the extent permitted by the commission, from any economies, efficiencies, or improvements which it may make, a
• § 458 — (a) No common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall, by means of known false billing, classification, weight, weighing, or report of weight, or by
• § 459 — (a) No person or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, by any false statement or representation as to cost or value, or the nature
• § 460.3 — (a) The commission shall prohibit any passenger stage corporation from charging any fare to, or imposing any other charge on, any physically disabled or handicapped passenger which is more than the fa
• § 460.7 — (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every passenger stage corporation shall file with the commission one of the following: (1) A certificate of workers’ compensation coverage for it
• § 461.2 — For purposes of establishing rates for a telephone or telegraph corporation, the commission shall include all revenues and expenses of the corporation from the installation and maintenance of that sim
• § 461.5 — (a) (1) No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or in the facilities for the transportati
• § 462 — Every street or interurban railroad corporation shall upon such terms as the commission finds to be just and reasonable furnish to its passengers transfers entitling them to one continuous trip in the
• § 463 — (a) For purposes of establishing rates for any electrical or gas corporation, the commission shall disallow expenses reflecting the direct or indirect costs resulting from any unreasonable error or om
• § 463.5 — (a) Section 463 does not require the commission to undertake a reasonableness review of recorded costs to determine the reasonableness of the costs of each item of any electrical or gas corporation’s
• § 464 — (a) Reasonable expenditures by transmission owners that are electrical corporations to plan, design, and engineer reconfiguration, replacement, or expansion of transmission facilities are in the publi
• § 465 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), whenever any labor of a custodial or janitorial nature is not performed by the employees of a public utility, such labor shall be let out under contract to t
• § 466 — Pursuant to Section 465, the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and any subcontractor under him shall pay not less than the specified prevailing wage to all workmen performing custodial or jan
• § 467 — The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations shall enforce Section 466 in the same manner as provided for by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 79) of Division
• § 468 — (a) For purposes of this section, “expense incurred by a public utility in assisting or deterring union organizing” means costs incurred in communicating with employees, or employees of the public uti
• § 486 — (a) Every common carrier shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open to the public inspection schedules showing the rates, fares, charges, and classifications for the transportation b
• § 487 — The schedules shall plainly state the places between which property and persons will be carried, and the classification of passengers or property in force, and shall state separately all terminal char
• § 488 — (a) Subject to such rules as the commission may prescribe, the schedules of carriers shall be produced and made available for inspection upon the demand of any person.
• § 489 — (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, require every public utility other than a common carrier to file with the commission within the time and in the form as the commission designates, and to pr
• § 490 — (a) The commission may from time to time determine and prescribe by order changes in the form of the schedules referred to in this article as it finds expedient, and may modify the requirements of any
• § 491 — Unless the commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made by any public utility in any rate or classification, or in any rule or contract relating to or affecting any rate, classification, or se
• § 491.1 — Notwithstanding Section 491, the commission may authorize a passenger stage corporation, upon one day’s notice, to reduce its rates and charges to not less than those of a competing passenger transpor
• § 492 — The names of the several public utilities which are parties to any joint tariff, rate, contract, or classification shall be specified in the schedule.
• § 493 — (a) No common carrier subject to this part shall engage or participate in the transportation of persons or property, between points within this state, until its schedules of rates, fares, charges, and
• § 494 — (a) No common carrier shall charge, demand, collect, or receive a different compensation for the transportation of persons or property, or for any service in connection therewith, than the applicable
• § 495 — Every telegraph and telephone corporation shall print and file with the commission schedules showing all the rates and classifications for the transmission of messages or conversations between all of
• § 495.6 — (a) Any city, county, or city and county that levies a utility user tax on the consumption of telephone services, including, but not limited to, the tax authorized by Section 7284.
• § 495.7 — (a) The commission may, by rule or order, establish procedures to allow telephone or telegraph corporations to apply for the exemption of certain telecommunications services from the tariffing require
• § 5 — Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions, rules of construction, and other general provisions contained in Sections 1 to 22, inclusive, and the definitions in the Public
• § 50000 — This part shall be known and cited as the “San Joaquin Regional Transit District Act.
• § 50001 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• § 50002 — “District” means the San Joaquin Regional Transit District formed under this part.
• § 50003 — “Board” means the board of directors of this district.
• § 50004 — “Voter” means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• § 50005 — “Transit” means the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by any means.
• § 50006 — “Transit works” or “transit facilities” means all real and personal property, equipment, rights, or interests owned or to be acquired by the district for transit service.
• § 50007 — For purposes of this part, “Stockton Metropolitan Area” means that area which was included within the boundaries of the Stockton Metropolitan Transit District, immediately prior to that district being
• § 50010 — It is necessary that a transit district be established in the Stockton metropolitan area which includes the City of Stockton and adjacent territory situated in San Joaquin County in order to meet the
• § 50011 — The San Joaquin Regional Transit District may be created as provided in this part and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• § 50012 — Except as otherwise provided in this part elections shall be held and conducted and the result ascertained, determined, and declared in, all respects as nearly as practicable in conformity with the ge
• § 50013 — Except as otherwise provided in this part all ordinances and notices which are required to be published shall be published within the district pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code.
• § 50014 — Whenever the signature of any officer or employee of a district or of any member of the retirement board or of any officer or employee of the retirement system is authorized or required under the prov
• § 50020 — The City of Stockton, together with unincorporated territory, may organize and incorporate as the Stockton Metropolitan Transit District.
• § 50021 — The request for the formation of the Stockton Metropolitan Transit District may be made by resolution or by petition as set out in this chapter.
• § 50025 — The legislative body of the City of Stockton may pass a resolution declaring that in its opinion public interest or necessity demands the creation and maintenance of the Stockton Metropolitan Transit
• § 50026 — The resolution may state the transit facilities proposed to be first acquired, but failure to acquire such transit facilities shall not affect the validity of the district.
• § 50027 — Certified copies of the resolution shall be presented to the Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin County requesting the board of supervisors to call an election without delay for determining whether th
• § 50030 — Instead of a resolution, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors signed by voters within the proposed district equal in number to at least 25 percent of the total vote cast at the last
• § 50031 — The petition shall contain substantially the same declarations and statements required to be contained in the resolution presented to the board of supervisors under this chapter, including the descrip
• § 50032 — The petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the person who circulated it certifying that each name signed thereto is a true signature of the person whose name
• § 50033 — The County Elections Official of the County of San Joaquin shall compare the signatures to the petition with the affidavits of registration and certify to their sufficiency or insufficiency.
• § 50035 — Upon receipt of certified copies of the resolution or of a sufficient petition, the board of supervisors shall hold a hearing on the question of forming a Stockton Metropolitan Transit District.
• § 50036 — The board of supervisors shall have the power to exclude unincorporated areas which, in the board’s determination, would not receive reasonable benefit from inclusion in the district.
• § 50037 — At the conclusion of the hearing, if the board of supervisors approves the resolution or petition as originally presented or in modified form, it shall by resolution entered upon its minutes: (a) Fix
• § 50038 — The election shall be held not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days from the date of the adoption of the resolution prescribed by Section 50037.