California

Public Utilities Code - PUC

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

• § 70223.4 — If the district shall not have contracted with the State Board of Equalization prior to the operative date of its transactions and use tax ordinance, it shall nevertheless so contract, and, in such ca
• § 70223.5 — Repeal of the transactions and use tax ordinance shall not be operative earlier than the first day of the first calendar quarter following the adoption of the ordinance of repeal.
• § 70225 — The district may from time to time incur a bonded indebtedness as provided in this chapter to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing or completing the whole or any portion of any transit facilities,
• § 70226 — Whenever the board by resolution passed by vote of two-thirds of all its members determines that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction, or completion by the district o
• § 70231 — The ordinance calling a special bond election shall fix the date on which the election will be held, and the manner of holding the election and of voting for or against incurring the indebtedness.
• § 70232 — Propositions for incurring indebtedness for more than one object or purpose may be submitted at the same election.
• § 70233 — Any special bond election may be held separately, or may be consolidated with any other election authorized by law at which the voters of the district may vote.
• § 70234 — The ordinance shall be published, and no other notice of election need be given.
• § 70235 — The board shall comply with Article 3 (commencing with Section 9160) of Chapter 2 of Division 9 of the Elections Code, the provisions of which are applicable to any bond election held pursuant to this
• § 70236 — The votes of sixty percent (60%) of all voters voting on the proposition at the election are required to authorize the issuance of bonds under this chapter.
• § 70237 — If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not within six months after the election hold another special election for the s
• § 70240 — 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
• § 70241 — 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
• § 70242 — 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
• § 70243 — 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.
• § 70245 — The bonds may be issued and sold for not less than their par value, but otherwise as the board determines.
• § 70246 — 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.
• § 70260 — 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
• § 70261 — 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
• § 70263 — 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.
• § 70265 — 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
• § 70266 — 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).
• § 70270 — Territory within Marin County may be annexed to the district in the manner provided in this chapter.
• § 70271 — Whenever the board finds and determines that additional territory will be benefited by annexation to the district, it shall pass a resolution to that effect.
• § 70272 — The resolution shall be passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board.
• § 70273 — The resolution shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed.
• § 70274 — The resolution, together with the names of the members of the board, voting for and against it shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code in a newspaper published in the territ
• § 70275 — On the day fixed for hearing or any day to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall hear and consider any objections presented to the annexation of the territory.
• § 70276 — After making all necessary and proper changes in the boundaries, by a resolution passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members, the board shall order the annexation of the territory so described.
• § 70277 — Whenever any territory is annexed to the district it shall thereupon become a part of the district subject to all the liabilities and entitled to all the benefits of the district.
• § 703 — The commission may investigate all existing or proposed interstate rates, fares, tolls, charges, and classifications, and all rules and practices in relation thereto, for or in relation to the transpo
• § 704 — Except as otherwise provided in this section, no foreign corporation, other than those which by compliance with the laws of this State are entitled to transact a public utility business within this St
• § 705 — Whenever in Articles 2 (commencing with Section 726), 3 (commencing with Section 761), and 4 (commencing with Section 791) a hearing by the commission is required, the hearing may be had either upon c
• § 706 — (a) For purposes of this section, “compensation” means any annual salary, bonus, benefits, or other consideration of any value, paid to an officer of an electrical corporation or gas corporation.
• § 707 — (a) Not later than March 1, 2012, the commission shall institute a rulemaking proceeding for the purpose of considering and adopting a code of conduct, associated rules, and enforcement procedures, to
• § 708 — The commission shall require every electrical, gas, and telephone corporation to prepare and issue to every employee who, in the course of his or her employment, has occasion to enter the premises of
• § 708.3 — Whenever a business transaction of an electrical, gas, water corporation with 10,000 or more service connections, or telephone corporation is such that a personal appearance by a person is required by
• § 709 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the policies for telecommunications in California are as follows: (a) To continue our universal service commitment by assuring the continued affordabilit
• § 709.2 — (a) The commission shall authorize fully open competition for intrastate interexchange telecommunications service, otherwise known as intrastate interLATA, or intrastate service between local access a
• § 709.5 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all telecommunications markets subject to commission jurisdiction be opened to competition not later than January 1, 1997.
• § 709.6 — Not later than January 1, 2000, the commission shall commence a proceeding to consider whether to establish a new regulatory framework that does all of the following: (a) Ensures that the public has u
• § 712 — (a) The commission shall convene, and continue until August 26, 2030, an independent peer review panel to conduct an independent review of enhanced seismic studies and surveys of the Diablo Canyon Uni
• § 712.1 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that in commission Decision 88-12-083 (December 19, 1988) Re Pacific Gas and Electric Company (30 CPUC.
• § 712.5 — (a) (1) The commission shall cause an assessment to be completed by no later than July 1, 2018, of the adverse and beneficial economic impacts, and the net economic effects, for the County of San Luis
• § 712.7 — (a) The commission shall approve both of the following: (1) The full funding for the community impact mitigation settlement proposed in Application 16-08-006.
• § 712.8 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Current expiration dates” has the same meaning as defined in Section 25548.
• § 713 — (a) (1) Golden State Energy may commence an eminent domain action to acquire all or substantially all of Pacific Gas and Electric Company only if the commission determines that Pacific Gas and Electri
• § 716 — (a) If an incumbent local exchange carrier files a forbearance petition with the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to Section 10 of the federal Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.
• § 717 — (a) The commission shall require an electrical or gas corporation to do all of the following: (1) Develop a program no later than January 1, 2017, within the electrical or gas corporation’s demand-sid
• § 718 — (a) The commission shall develop policies, rules, or regulations with a goal of reducing, by January 1, 2024, the statewide level of gas and electric service disconnections for nonpayment by residenti
• § 719 — (a) For purposes of this section, terms used in this section shall have the same meaning as those terms are defined in Section 3280.
• § 727 — It is the policy of the state that the use of all waterways, ports, and harbors of this state shall be encouraged, and to that end the commission is directed in the establishment of rates for water ca
• § 727.5 — (a) In establishing rates for water service, the commission shall consider, and may establish, separate charges for costs associated with customer service, facilities, variable operating costs, includ
• § 728 — Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that the rates or classifications, demanded, observed, charged, or collected by any public utility for or in connection with any service, product, or co
• § 728.1 — (a) For purposes of this section, “plant held for future use account” means account number 105 of the Uniform System of Accounts Prescribed for Public Utilities and Licensees, as adopted by the commis
• § 728.2 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the commission shall have no jurisdiction or control over classified telephone directories or commercial advertising included as part of the corporation’s al
• § 728.3 — (a) No telephone corporation operating within a service area shall remove any public telephone unless it has posted on the public telephone for not less than 30 days a notice, in a manner and form app
• § 728.4 — A telephone corporation shall list a telephone number as the number for a facsimile machine in its alphabetical or classified directory only if requested to do so by the subscriber.
• § 728.5 — (a) The commission may establish rates or charges for the transportation of passengers and freight by railroads and other transportation companies, except motor carriers of property, and no railroad o
• § 728.7 — (a) Prior to authorizing any change in the amount of the payment required of a telephone corporation which provides service between service areas to a telephone corporation which provides service with
• § 729 — The commission may, upon a hearing, investigate a single rate, classification, rule, contract, or practice, or any number thereof, or the entire schedule or schedules of rates, classifications, rules,
• § 729.5 — A public utility, other than one-way radio paging services, shall not change a group of customers from one rate schedule to another rate schedule, if the change would result in an increase of more tha
• § 730 — (a) The commission shall, upon a hearing, determine the kind and character of facilities and the extent of the operation thereof, necessary reasonably and adequately to meet public requirements for se
• § 730.3 — The commission shall notify every state and local public agency and corporation operating a passenger transit system making a written request for such notification before approving any rate increase f
• § 730.7 — In determining reimbursement to railroad corporations for the operation of rail passenger service, the commission shall not exceed that compensation which would be payable if calculated pursuant to th
• § 730.8 — Whenever a state agency files with the commission an application for an increase in rates or fares or for any change in the level of service for passenger transportation by a railroad corporation and
• § 731 — (a) (1) On or before June 30, 2024, the commission, in coordination and consultation with the Department of Community Services and Development and other relevant state agencies that provide low-income
• § 732 — (a) Whenever the commission, after a hearing finds that the rates, fares, or charges in force over two or more common carriers, between any two points in this state, are unjust, unreasonable, or exces
• § 733 — (a) If the common carriers do not agree upon the division between them of the joint rates, fares, or charges established by the commission over through routes, the commission shall, after hearing, by
• § 734 — When complaint has been made to the commission concerning a rate for a product or commodity furnished or service performed by a public utility, and the commission has found, after investigation, that
• § 735 — If the public utility does not comply with the order for the payment of reparation within the time specified in the order, suit may be instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover the
• § 736 — All complaints for damages resulting from the violation of any of the provisions of Sections 494 or 532 shall either be filed with the commission, or, where concurrent jurisdiction of the cause of act
• § 737 — All complaints for the collection of the lawful tariff charges or any part thereof, of public utilities may be filed in any court of competent jurisdiction within three years from the time the cause o
• § 737.3 — (a) (1) A highway carrier, as defined by subdivision (c), a freight forwarder, a party representing a carrier or freight forwarder, or an assignee of a carrier or freight forwarder shall not, based on
• § 738 — For the purpose of Sections 734 to 737, inclusive, the cause of action shall accrue upon the delivery or tender of delivery of the shipment or the performance of the service or the furnishing of the c
• § 738.6 — In establishing rates for a public utility operating any portion of its line, plant, or system within a federally designated nonattainment area, the commission shall determine which expenses related t
• § 739 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Baseline quantity” means a quantity of electricity or gas allocated by the commission for residential customers based on from 50 to 60 percent of average residential
• § 739.1 — (a) The commission shall continue a program of assistance to low-income electricity and gas customers with annual household incomes that are no greater than 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelin
• § 739.10 — The commission shall ensure that errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material over or undercollections of the electrical corporations.
• § 739.11 — (a) For bills issued to customers of gas corporations and electrical corporations in which usage is estimated, it is the intent of the Legislature that, to the extent practicable, the methodology for
• § 739.12 — (a) The commission shall continue a program of assistance to residential customers of the state’s three largest electrical corporations consisting of households with total household annual gross incom
• § 739.13 — (a) The commission shall develop a definition of energy affordability.
• § 739.15 — (a) The commission shall determine in a scoping ruling or other ruling whether an application from an electrical corporation or gas corporation requesting authorization for or recovery of capital expe
• § 739.2 — (a) The commission’s program of assistance to low-income electric and gas customers shall also include the following facilities, provided the commission finds that the occupants of the facilities subs
• § 739.3 — (a) Subject to direction and supervision by the commission, each electrical corporation and gas corporation shall develop and implement a program of rate assistance to eligible food banks at a fixed p
• § 739.4 — (a) Any natural gas customer who enrolls in the CARE program after the effective date of this section, but before October 1, 2001, shall receive the same one-time bill credit based on the amount of ea
• § 739.5 — (a) The commission shall require that, whenever gas or electrical service, or both, is provided by a master-meter customer to users who are tenants of a mobilehome park, apartment building, or similar
• § 739.6 — The commission shall establish rates using cost allocation principles that fairly and reasonably assign to different customer classes the costs of providing service to those customer classes, consiste
• § 739.7 — In establishing residential rates, the commission shall retain an appropriate inverted rate structure.
• § 739.8 — (a) Access to an adequate supply of healthful water is a basic necessity of human life, and shall be made available to all residents of California at an affordable cost.
• § 739.9 — (a) “Fixed charge” means any fixed customer charge, basic service fee, demand differentiated basic service fee, demand charge, or other charge not based on the volume of electricity consumed.
• § 740 — For purposes of setting the rates to be charged by every electrical corporation, gas corporation, heat corporation or telephone corporation for the services or commodities furnished by it, the commiss
• § 740.1 — The commission shall consider the following guidelines in evaluating the research, development, and demonstration programs proposed by electrical and gas corporations: (a) Projects should offer a reas
• § 740.10 — (a) Each public utility electrical corporation shall develop and offer its customers, on or before May 30, 2001, the opportunity to participate, in addition to other programs developed by the commissi
• § 740.11 — In recognition of the fact that agricultural and water supplier customers necessarily have high electricity usage during peak summer demand periods, the Legislature strongly urges the commission to co
• § 740.12 — (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (A) Advanced clean vehicles and fuels are needed to reduce petroleum use, to meet air quality standards, to improve public health, and
• § 740.13 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Charging station” means the removable equipment that provides alternating or direct current to the battery elect
• § 740.14 — (a) By July 30, 2018, in consultation with the Department of Parks and Recreation, Public Utilities Commission, Energy Commission, and State Air Resources Board, each electrical corporation may file w
• § 740.15 — (a) The commission shall consider, in an existing proceeding, all of the following: (1) Facilitating the development of technologies that promote grid integration, including technologies that provide
• § 740.16 — (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (A) State policy incentivizes and encourages the increased use of electric vehicles, and relies, in part, on the ratepayers of electric
• § 740.18 — (a) The purpose of this section is to require the commission to review, modify, if appropriate, and decide whether to approve, two pending (as of July 1, 2020) transportation electrification infrastru
• § 740.19 — (a) The purpose of this section is to change the commission practice of authorizing the electrical distribution infrastructure located on the utility side of the customer meter needed to charge electr
• § 740.2 — The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, State Air Resources Board, electrical corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, shall evaluate policies to develop infrastructure suffic
• § 740.20 — (a) (1) The commission, the Energy Commission, and the State Air Resources Board shall require that all electric vehicle charging infrastructure and equipment located on the customer side of the elect
• § 740.21 — (a) Each electrical corporation, as part of its distribution planning process, shall consider the fleet data produced by the Energy Commission pursuant to Section 25328 of the Public Resources Code, a
• § 740.23 — (a) For purposes of this section, “utility” means an electrical corporation or a gas corporation.
• § 740.3 — (a) The commission, in cooperation with the Energy Commission, the State Air Resources Board, air quality management districts and air pollution control districts, regulated electrical and gas corpora
• § 740.4 — (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to engage in programs to encourage economic development.
• § 740.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, “21st Century Energy System Decision” means commission Decision 12-12-031 (December 20, 2012), Decision Granting Authority to Enter Into a Research and Development Ag
• § 740.6 — (a) The commission may authorize investor-owned gas and electric utilities to match grants provided to nonprofit agencies and local governments to participate in the Department of Economic Opportunity
• § 740.7 — Interruptible service or curtailment programs adopted by the commission shall assure that the programs allow customers to aggregate multiple accounts to meet any minimum kilowatt requirements for part
• § 740.8 — As used in Section 740.
• § 740.9 — (a) Any optional binding mandatory curtailment program adopted by the commission that exempts customers from Stage 3 rotating outages in exchange for partial load curtailments during every rotating ou
• § 741 — (a) Every owner or operator of telephones available for public use, other than a telephone corporation, that accept any form of payment which, as part of the service furnished, provides operator-assis
• § 741.1 — Every nonpublic utility provider of telephone services, including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, or university, which imposes charges on users of the services and which, as part of the
• § 741.2 — (a) No nonpublic utility provider of telephone services, including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, university, or similar place of temporary accommodation owning or operating message sw
• § 741.3 — The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements applicable to operator-assisted telephone services, whether furnished by a telephone corporation or other than a teleph
• § 742 — (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for telephones available for public use that accept any form of payment and that are owned or operated by corporati
• § 742.1 — (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for every corporation or person, other than a telephone corporation, which, as part of the services furnished, furn
• § 742.3 — The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce an operating requirement for coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones available for public use, whether owned by telephone corporat
• § 742.5 — (a) No telephone corporation which operates within a service area shall provide billing and collection services for either of the following: (1) Any telephone corporation which has not obtained a cert
• § 743 — (a) As used in this section, “steel producer” means a producer of steel products in California which in 1981 or any subsequent year produced at least 75,000 tons of rolled or finished steel and which
• § 743.3 — (a) Beginning January 15, 2002, and at least once monthly thereafter, an electrical corporation shall notify each air pollution control district and air quality management district of the name and add
• § 744 — (a) As used in this section, “agricultural producer” means any person or corporation whose principal purpose is the agrarian production of food or fiber.
• § 744.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Public Utilities Commission shall, as soon as is practicable after the operative date of the act adding this section, require every electrical corpo
• § 745 — (a) For purposes of this section, “time-variant pricing” includes time-of-use rates, critical peak pricing, and real-time pricing, but does not include programs that provide customers with discounts f
• § 746 — The commission shall determine the appropriate ratemaking treatment for incentive compensation paid to officers or employees of an electrical corporation or gas corporation for incentive compensation
• § 747 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission reduce rates for electricity and natural gas to the lowest amount possible.
• § 748.1 — Except for Golden State Energy, an electrical corporation or gas corporation shall not recover, through a rate approved by the commission, a fine or penalty.
• § 748.2 — (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), an electrical corporation or gas corporation shall not recover, through a rate approved by the commission, costs arising directly from new or additional act
• § 748.3 — (a) For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions apply: (1) “Above-the-line account” means an account that contains expenses that a utility recovers from ratepayers, including an acc
• § 748.5 — (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (c), (d), and (e), the commission shall require revenues, including any accrued interest, received by an electrical corporation as a result of the direct all
• § 748.5.5 — (a) A local publicly owned electric utility that receives an allowance allocation in addition to the allowance totals specified in Section 95892 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations pursu
• § 748.6 — Beginning with the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2019, and ending with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, the commission shall annually allocate fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) of the revenues
• § 749 — Public utilities shall develop programs in cooperation with local school districts in reducing their electricity and gas bills through conservation and improvements in efficiency.
• § 749.5 — (a) For the purposes of this section, “public school” means a public school, including a charter school, maintaining a kindergarten, or any of the grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
• § 750 — The commission shall develop formal procedures to consider safety in a rate case application by an electrical corporation or gas corporation.
• § 7503 — Any person or any corporation formed under the laws of this State or of any other state within the United States that the directors of a railroad corporation may by unanimous concurrence select, may b
• § 7505 — (a) Revenue derived from passenger rail service on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad right-of-way south of Willits to Larkspur shall only be used for capital improvements to, and operating expenses of
• § 7508 — Subject to the provisions of Part 1 of Division 1 and of the Corporations Code, any railroad corporation, or person or corporation owning any railroad in this State, may sell, convey, and transfer its
• § 751 — (a) This section applies only to those public utilities over which the commission exercises its authority to fix rates and only to the extent the revenue requirements of the utility were based upon th
• § 7526 — Every railroad corporation has all of the following powers: (a) To make such examination and surveys as are necessary to the selection of the most advantageous route for the railroad.
• § 7527 — Every railroad corporation also has all of the following powers: (a) To carry persons and property on its railroad, and to receive tolls or compensation therefor.
• § 7528 — Every person or corporation authorized to operate a railroad is authorized to use steam, diesel, electricity, compressed air, or any other suitable motive power, for the purpose of propelling cars or
• § 7529 — Railroad corporations doing business in this State and organized under any law of this State or the United States, or of any state or territory thereof, may enter into contracts with one another, wher
• § 7530 — Every railroad corporation in this State shall, within a reasonable time after its road is finally located, make a map and profile thereof, and of the land acquired for the use thereof, and the bounda
• § 7531 — If, at any time after the location of the line of the railroad and the filing of the maps and profiles thereof, it appears that the location can be improved, the directors may alter or change the loca
• § 7531.5 — Upon receipt by it of an application, filed with either the federal Surface Transportation Board or the Public Utilities Commission, to abandon a line of railroad, the Public Utilities Commission shal
• § 7533 — The board of directors of any railroad corporation may at any time after the original location and construction of its railroad, in order to provide better facilities for the public service, construct
• § 7535 — Whenever the track of one railroad intersects or crosses the track of another railroad, whether it is a street railroad, wholly within the limits of a city, or other railroad, the rails of either or e
• § 7536 — Whenever the track of a railroad crosses another railroad or a highway, such railroad or highway may be carried under, over, or on a level with the track, as is most expedient.
• § 7537 — The owner of any lands along or through which any railroad is constructed or maintained, may have such farm or private crossings over the railroad and railroad right of way as are reasonably necessary
• § 7538 — At every farm or private grade crossing of a railroad where no automatic grade crossing protective device is in place there shall be installed, as a means of protecting the crossing, one or more stop
• § 755 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that: (1) An electrical, gas, or water corporation that offers customers credit card or debit card payment options, may recover the reasonable expenses incurred
• § 755.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 755, the commission shall allow a water corporation with 10,000 or more service connections to recover the reasonable expenses incurred by the water corporation in providin
• § 7551 — Every railroad corporation is granted the right of way for the location, construction, and maintenance of its necessary works, and for every necessary adjunct thereto, over any swamp, overflowed, or o
• § 7551.1 — The Secretary of Transportation may grant to every railroad corporation whose primary business is the transportation of passengers the rights-of-way for the location, construction, and maintenance of
• § 7551.3 — (a) To ensure that a fair and reasonable price is paid for public acquisition of railroad rights-of-way, it is the intent of the Legislature to have railroad rights-of-way valuation procedures and gui
• § 7552 — (a) Every railroad corporation is granted the right, subject to subdivision (b), to take from any of the lands belonging to the state, adjacent to the works of the corporation, all materials, such as
• § 7553 — When any selection of a right of way, or land for an adjunct to the works of a railroad corporation, is made by any corporation, the secretary thereof shall transmit to the State Lands Commission, the
• § 7554 — If any corporation receiving state lands or appurtenances thereunder is dissolved, ceases to exist, is discontinued, or the route or line of its works is so changed as not to cover or cross the lands
• § 7555 — No railroad corporation may use any street, alley, or highway, or any of the land, whether covered by water or otherwise, owned by any city or county, unless the right to do so is granted by a vote of
• § 7556 — The governing body of a county, city and county, or city, under such regulations, restrictions, and limitations, and upon such terms and payment of license tax as the county, city and county, or city
• § 7556.1 — Notwithstanding Section 7556, to railroad corporations whose primary business is the transportation of passengers, the governing body of a county, city and county, or city under regulations, restricti
• § 7557 — Where any railroad or street railroad tracks are located on property that a public entity is authorized to acquire by eminent domain for road, highway, boulevard, street, or alley purposes or on prope
• § 7576 — In any contract for the sale of railroad or street railway equipment or rolling stock, it is lawful to agree that title to the property sold or contracted to be sold, although possession thereof may b
• § 7577 — In any contract for the leasing or hiring of railroad or street railway equipment or rolling stock, it is lawful to stipulate for a conditioned sale thereof at the termination of the contract, and tha
• § 7578 — No contract of the type provided for in this article shall be valid as against any subsequent judgment creditor or any subsequent bona fide purchaser for value and without notice, unless all of the fo
• § 758 — (a) The commission shall allow an electrical corporation to recover in rates amounts assessed to the utility pursuant to Section 8610.
• § 7601 — Except as provided in Section 7602 every common carrier by railroad operating within this State shall maintain, on what is known as passing track sidings, a signboard in connection with each derailing
• § 7602 — Section 7601 does not apply to any track, siding, spur, or other track owned by private persons for their own use, except when the track, siding, spur, or other track is operated regularly in connecti
• § 7603 — Any corporation, company, or person, or any officer, superintendent, manager, or other agent thereof, who violates any of the provisions of Sections 7601 or 7602, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
• § 7604 — (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), a bell, siren, horn, whistle, or similar audible warning device shall be sounded at any public crossing in accordance with Section 222.
• § 7605 — Every railroad corporation, or receiver or lessee thereof, operating any line of railroad in this State by steam locomotives, shall equip all steam locomotives used or to be used in the hauling or pro
• § 7606 — Every steam locomotive used upon a railroad in this State, carrying passengers or freight for hire, shall be equipped with one or more water glasses of the type known as the “solid water glass,” the s
• § 7607 — Every railroad corporation, or receiver or lessee thereof, operating any line of railroad in this State, shall equip all locomotive engines used in the transportation of trains over the railroad with
• § 7608 — Every railroad company, or the receiver or receivers of any railroad, operating trains within this state, shall provide a first aid kit containing written instructions for the use of its contents, on
• § 7609 — Every railroad company, or the receiver or receivers thereof, operating trains in whole or in part within this State, shall provide an emergency first-aid kit on each caboose, locomotive, motor or die
• § 761 — Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of any public utility, or the methods of manufacture, distribution, transmissio
• § 761.3 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 216 and subdivision (c) of Section 218.
• § 761.5 — (a) Where the commission determines that it would be cost-effective, the commission shall authorize electrical and gas corporations to participate in a centralized credit check system to share informa
• § 7610 — The employee of any railroad company, or the receiver or receivers thereof, having charge of any passenger train, caboose, locomotive, motor or diesel engine shall report in writing as soon as possibl
• § 7611 — Any person or any employee of any railroad company, or the receiver or receivers thereof, who removes, carries away from its proper place, or uses any emergency first-aid kit, except for the purpose o
• § 7612 — It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within the boundaries of the State of California and engaged in the business of common carrier to operate for or transpo
• § 7613 — On and after July 1, 1954, any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within this State as a common carrier of persons or property or both, for compensation, which either operates for its
• § 7614 — It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within the boundaries of the State of California and engaged in the business of common carrier to operate for or transpo
• § 762 — Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that additions, extensions, repairs, or improvements to, or changes in, the existing plant, equipment, apparatus, facilities, or other physical property
• § 762.5 — The commission, as a basis for making any order pursuant to the provisions of Section 762 relating to location of structures, shall give consideration to, and include in its order findings upon, the f
• § 7626 — Every railroad corporation shall make and maintain a good and sufficient fence on both sides of its track and property.
• § 7627 — A railroad corporation that pays to the owner of the land through or along which its road is located an agreed price for making and maintaining a good and sufficient fence, or that pays the cost of su
• § 7628 — The commission may require every railroad corporation operating any steam or electric railroad in this State to erect and maintain lawful fences on each or either side of the railroad where the railro
• § 7629 — The authority of the commission to require such fences shall be exercised in each instance only when a verified application is filed with the commission by the person or persons owning cattle, horses,
• § 763 — (a) Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that any railroad corporation or street railroad corporation does not run a sufficient number of trains or cars, or possess or operate sufficient mo
• § 7630 — Upon hearing the commission shall determine whether or not any fence or fences are necessary to protect cattle, horses, mules, or any other domestic animals being ranged or grazed upon the land design
• § 7631 — The failure of any railroad corporation to comply with any order of the commission authorized by this article shall not subject it, or any of its officers, agents, or employees, to any penalty other t
• § 764 — (a) An electrical corporation that has a contract for private fire safety and prevention, mitigation, or maintenance services, shall only use those services for the direct defense of utility infrastru
• § 764.5 — (a) A fire protection district may require an electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility to notify the fire protection district at least 24 hours before performing a prescribed or
• § 765 — (a) When the federal National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) submits a safety recommendation letter concerning rail safety to the commission, the commission shall provide the NTSB with a formal wr
• § 765.5 — (a) The purpose of this section is to provide that the commission takes all appropriate action necessary to ensure the safe operation of railroads in this state.
• § 765.9 — Federal funds available to the commission for rail safety inspection and enforcement purposes shall be allocated to eligible passenger and freight rail activities on a proportionate basis.