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

• § 8057 — Any violation of any provision of this article is a misdemeanor.
• § 8101 — Under certain conditions the sale and distribution of electric power and energy in the same geographical area both by an electrical utility and by an irrigation district, results in duplication of ser
• § 8102 — Any utility may petition the commission setting forth in its petition the following: (a) That the petitioner and an irrigation district formed under the laws of this State are both engaged or propose
• § 8103 — Thereupon, the commission shall cause an investigation to be made and may conduct such hearings in connection therewith as it considers desirable.
• § 8104 — If the commission finds that it is for the best interests of the State and of the utility, and not incompatible with any public interest that the petition be granted, it shall make and issue its order
• § 8106 — Where limitation of areas to be served or limitations or designations of areas not to be served by the utility and by an irrigation district have heretofore been approved or are hereafter approved by
• § 8107 — In any civil or criminal action or proceeding for violation of the Cartwright Act (Chapter 530, Statues of 1907), Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code, or any rule of statutory or
• § 8108 — If, in any contract submitted and approved by the commission or in any order made by the commission pursuant to application and petition as in this article provided, it is provided that the utility is
• § 816 — The power of public utilities to issue stocks and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership and bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness and to create liens on their prope
• § 816.5 — Nothing in this article or in Article 6 (commencing with Section 851) requires a common carrier by railroad subject to the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.
• § 817 — A public utility may issue stocks and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership, and bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of more than 12 months aft
• § 818 — No public utility may issue stocks and stock certificates, or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of more than 12 months aft
• § 819 — To enable it to determine whether it will issue the order, the commission may hold a hearing and may make such additional inquiry or investigation, examine such witnesses, books, papers, documents, an
• § 820 — The commission shall have no power to authorize the capitalization of the right to be a corporation, or the capitalization of any franchise or permit, or the right to own, operate, or enjoy any such f
• § 8201 — Any water company having a franchise to use the streets of a city, shall properly and adequately serve with water the inhabitants of the territory for the service of which it has such franchise.
• § 8202 — If the commission has jurisdiction of extensions and service in the city it shall enforce a compliance with Section 8201.
• § 8203 — In addition to the penalties which may be provided by the governing body of a city for failure to comply with such regulations adopted by it, any person aggrieved by the failure of any water company t
• § 8204 — “Water company” as used in this article, includes any person, firm, or private corporation engaged in the business of supplying water for domestic use within any city.
• § 821 — Subject to the provisions of this article, any public utility may issue bonds, or other interest bearing securities maturing at periods of more than 12 months after the date thereof, and may issue one
• § 822 — Pursuant to this part the commission may, upon an application for an order to issue stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, or other securities or to deliver other consideration in exchange for one or more
• § 8226 — The Governor of the state may, upon the application of any railroad company, appoint and commission during his or her pleasure one or more persons designated by the company, to serve at the expense of
• § 8227 — Every peace officer designated under Section 8226 shall, when in uniform, wear in plain view a shield bearing the words “railroad police,” and the name of the company for which he or she is commission
• § 823 — (a) No public utility shall, without the consent of the commission, apply any part of the issue of any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note, or other ev
• § 824 — The commission may require public utilities to account for the disposition of the proceeds of all sales of stocks and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership, and bonds, notes, a
• § 825 — All stock and every stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, and every bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness, of a public utility, issued without an order of the commissio
• § 8251 — It is unlawful for any public service corporation, or agent, superintendent, or manager thereof, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as a “spotter,” for the purpose of inv
• § 8252 — Each violation of this article by any person, firm, association, or corporation is a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100)
• § 826 — Every public utility which, directly or indirectly issues or causes to be issued, any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note, or other evidence of indebte
• § 827 — Every officer, agent, or employee of a public utility, and every other person is guilty of a felony who does any of the following acts: (a) Knowingly authorizes, directs, aids in, issues, or executes,
• § 8276 — The commission shall prohibit any public utility that has any retirement funds invested in the government of Libya, or in any corporation based in that country, from including in its plant operating b
• § 8277 — The commission shall require every public utility to provide the commission with a list of its retirement fund investments in the government of Libya, or in any corporation based in that country.
• § 8278 — The commission shall verify the accuracy of the information provided pursuant to Section 8277, and shall disallow any losses incurred as a result of investments in the government of Libya, or in any c
• § 8279 — This article does not prevent the commission from applying this article to public utility retirement fund investments in other countries such as, but not limited to, Libya, if comparable conditions wa
• § 828 — No provision of this part, and no act done or performed under or in connection therewith, shall obligate the State to pay or guarantee, in any manner whatsoever, any stock or stock certificate or othe
• § 8281 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free, open, and transparent competition.
• § 8282 — For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Control” means exercising the power to make policy decisions.
• § 8283 — (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, and telephone corporation wit
• § 8284 — (a) (1) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt criteria for verifying and determining the eligibility of women, minority, and LGBT business enterprises for procurement contracts.
• § 8285 — (a) Any person or corporation, through its directors, officers, or agents, that falsely represents a business as a women, minority, or LGBT business enterprise in the procurement of, or the attempt to
• § 8286 — (a) In order to facilitate the participation of women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises and small businesses in contract procurement, any corporation subject to this article m
• § 829 — (a) This article shall not apply to any person or corporation which transacts no business subject to regulation under this part, except performing services or delivering commodities for or to public u
• § 8290 — (a) In addition to Section 8281, the Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (1) Public agencies and some regulated utilities should establish short- and long-term plans to advance diver
• § 8290.2 — (a) (1) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, and telephone corporation
• § 830 — No public utility shall assume any obligation or liability as guarantor, endorser, surety, or otherwise in respect of the securities of any other person, firm, or corporation, when such securities are
• § 8301 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Nuclear Powerplant Communities Information Act of 1985.
• § 8302 — Every privately owned and publicly owned public utility generating electricity by means of any nuclear powerplant and every privately owned and publicly owned public utility with a nuclear powerplant
• § 8310 — (a) Each utility, and independent contractor or subcontractor of a utility, shall do both of the following: (1) Have an automated external defibrillator (AED) available for emergency use at each works
• § 8321 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Nuclear Facility Decommissioning Act of 1985.
• § 8322 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The citizens of California should be protected from exposure to radiation from nuclear facilities.
• § 8323 — It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to protect electric customers, both present and future, from the risks of unreasonable costs associated with ownership and operation of nuc
• § 8324 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 8325 — (a) Each electrical corporation owning, in whole or in part, or operating nuclear facilities, located in California or elsewhere, shall establish an externally managed, segregated fund for the purpose
• § 8326 — (a) Each electrical utility owning, in whole or in part, or operating a nuclear facility, located in California or elsewhere, shall provide a decommissioning cost estimate to the commission or the boa
• § 8327 — The commission or the board shall review, in conjunction with each proceeding of the electrical utility held for the purpose of considering changes in electrical rates or charges, the decommissioning
• § 8328 — The expenses associated with decommissioning of nuclear facilities shall be paid from the funds established pursuant to Section 8325.
• § 8329 — The commission or the board shall, for purposes of establishing rates or charges, review and approve the estimated service life and estimated retirement date of all nuclear facilities.
• § 8330 — Every electrical utility involved in decommissioning, closure, or removal of nuclear facilities, shall provide assistance in finding comparable alternative employment opportunities for its employees w
• § 8340 — For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Baseload generation” means electricity generation from a powerplant that is designed and intended to provide electri
• § 8341 — (a) No load-serving entity or local publicly owned electric utility may enter into a long-term financial commitment unless any baseload generation supplied under the long-term financial commitment com
• § 8350 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Load-serving entity” has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 8340.
• § 8360 — It is the policy of the state to modernize the state’s electrical transmission and distribution system to maintain safe, reliable, efficient, and secure electrical service, with infrastructure that ca
• § 8361 — For purposes of this chapter, “ISO” means the Independent System Operator operating pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 345) of Chapter 2.
• § 8362 — (a) By July 1, 2010, the commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, the ISO, and other key stakeholders shall determine the requirements for a smart grid deployment plan consistent with S
• § 8363 — This chapter shall be implemented in a manner that does not compromise customer or worker safety or the integrity or reliability of the electrical transmission and distribution system in this state.
• § 8364 — (a) By July 1, 2011, each electrical corporation shall develop and submit a smart grid deployment plan to the commission for approval.
• § 8366 — Smart grid technology may be deployed in a manner to maximize the benefit and minimize the cost to ratepayers and to achieve the benefits of smart grid technology.
• § 8368 — The commission may modify or adjust the requirements of this chapter for any electrical corporation with fewer than 100,000 service connections, as individual circumstances merit.
• § 8369 — Each local publicly owned electric utility with more than 100,000 service connections, shall, by July 1, 2011, develop a smart grid deployment plan, that is consistent with federal law, including the
• § 8370 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Customer” means a customer of a local publicly owned electric utility or of a large electrical corporation.
• § 8371 — The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the Independent System Operator, shall take all of the following actions by December 1, 2020, to facilitate the commercialization of micr
• § 8371.5 — Nothing in this chapter shall discourage or prohibit the development or ownership of a microgrid by an electrical corporation.
• § 8372 — (a) Within 180 days of the first request from a customer or developer to establish a microgrid, the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility shall develop and make available a standa
• § 8375 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish transparency for renters and home buyers regarding the existence of a decarbonization charge associated with a decarbonization upgrade located on a
• § 8376 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) (1) “Decarbonization charge” means a charge that is added to the billing for service associated with the electrical meter, or other m
• § 8377 — (a) This chapter shall apply to any program or initiative administered by an energy supplier that has all of the following attributes: (1) The program or initiative makes a site-specific investment to
• § 8380 — (a) For purposes of this section, “electrical or gas consumption data” means data about a customer’s electrical or natural gas usage that is made available as part of an advanced metering infrastructu
• § 8381 — (a) For purposes of this section, “electrical consumption data” means data about a customer’s electrical usage that is made available as part of an advanced metering infrastructure, and includes the n
• § 8385 — (a) For purposes of this chapter, all of the following definitions apply: (1) “Deenergization event” means the proactive interruption of electrical service for the purpose of mitigating or avoiding th
• § 8386 — (a) Each electrical corporation shall construct, maintain, and operate its electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by those electrical lin
• § 8386.1 — The commission may assess penalties on an electrical corporation that fails to comply with its plan.
• § 8386.10 — (a) The commission shall not allow a large electrical corporation to include in its equity rate base its share, as determined pursuant to the Wildfire Fund allocation metric specified in Section 3280,
• § 8386.2 — (a) The commission shall require a safety culture assessment of each electrical corporation to be conducted by an independent third-party evaluator.
• § 8386.3 — (a) (1) (A) The office shall approve or deny each wildfire mitigation plan within nine months of its submission.
• § 8386.4 — (a) (1) The commission shall consider the cost of implementing each electrical corporation’s plan in its general rate case proceeding and shall approve the costs for wildfire risk mitigation programs
• § 8386.5 — The commission, the office, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to cooperatively develop consistent approaches and share data related to f
• § 8386.6 — (a) All electrical line clearance tree trimmers performing work to comply with the vegetation management requirements in an electrical corporation’s wildfire mitigation plan shall be qualified line cl
• § 8387 — (a) Each local publicly owned electric utility and electrical cooperative shall construct, maintain, and operate its electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of wildfire
• § 8388 — (a) An electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, or community choice aggregator with a contract to procure electricity generated from biomass pursuant to Section 399.
• § 8388.5 — (a) The commission shall establish an expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program consistent with this section.
• § 8389 — (a) The Director of the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety shall issue a certificate to an electrical corporation if the electrical corporation provides documentation of the following: (1) The ele
• § 8390 — A privately owned public utility may serve as an administrator for purposes of Section 116686 of the Health and Safety Code.
• § 840 — For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Bank” means the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank.
• § 8400 — As used in this chapter, “utility” means any of the following that furnish electrical, gas, water, or sewer service, or any combination thereof, where the service is performed for, or the commodity is
• § 8401 — (a) On or before January 1, 2026, for new housing construction, each utility shall publicly post both of the following on its internet website: (1) A schedule of estimated fees for typical service con
• § 841 — (a) An electrical corporation shall, by June 1, 1997, and may from time to time thereafter apply to the commission for a determination that certain transition costs may be recovered through fixed tran
• § 8410 — For purposes of this chapter, all of the following definitions apply: (a) “Electrical corporation” has the same meaning as defined in Section 218.
• § 8411 — (a) (1) The commission, as it deems necessary for the exchange of aggregated data, may establish any memoranda of understanding or other agreements necessary to direct electrical corporations to timel
• § 8412 — (a) (1) The governing board of each local publicly owned electric utility, as it deems necessary for the exchange of aggregated data, may establish any memoranda of understanding or other agreements n
• § 842 — (a) Financing entities may issue rate reduction bonds upon approval by the commission in the pertinent financing orders.
• § 843 — (a) A security interest in transition property is valid, is enforceable against the pledgor and third parties, subject to the rights of any third parties holding security interests in the transition p
• § 844 — (a) A transfer of transition property by an electrical corporation to an affiliate or to a financing entity, or by an affiliate of an electrical corporation or a financing entity to another financing
• § 845 — Any successor to the electrical corporation, whether pursuant to any bankruptcy, reorganization, or other insolvency proceeding, or pursuant to any merger, sale, or transfer, by operation of law, or o
• § 846 — The authority of the commission to issue financing orders pursuant to Section 841 shall expire on June 30, 2022.
• § 846.2 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 841, for any electrical corporation that ended its rate freeze period described in subdivision (a) of Section 368 prior to July 15, 1999, the commission
• § 847 — Regulations adopted to implement this article shall not be subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 848 — For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Consumer” means any individual, governmental body, trust, business entity or nonprofit organization which
• § 848.1 — (a) No later than 120 days after the effective date of this article, and from time to time thereafter, the recovery corporation shall apply to the commission for a determination that some or all of th
• § 848.2 — (a) The financing entity may issue recovery bonds upon approval by the commission in the pertinent financing orders.
• § 848.3 — (a) A security interest in recovery property is valid, is enforceable against the pledgor and third parties, subject to the rights of any third parties holding security interests in the recovery prope
• § 848.4 — (a) A transfer of recovery property by the recovery corporation to an affiliate or to a financing entity, or by an affiliate of the recovery corporation or a financing entity to another financing enti
• § 848.5 — Any successor to the recovery corporation, whether pursuant to any bankruptcy, reorganization, or other insolvency proceeding, or pursuant to any merger, sale, or transfer, by operation of law, or oth
• § 848.6 — The authority of the commission to issue financing orders pursuant to Section 848.
• § 848.7 — Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 848.
• § 848.8 — Notwithstanding any other law, regulations adopted to implement this article are not subject to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 849 — For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Ancillary agreement” means a bond insurance policy, letter of credit, reserve account, surety bond, swap arrangement, hedging
• § 849.1 — (a) (1) The commission may issue financing orders in accordance with this article to facilitate the recovery, financing, or refinancing of water supply costs.
• § 849.2 — (a) A qualifying water utility for which a financing order has been issued shall cause the proceeds of any water rate relief bonds issued pursuant to a financing order to be placed in a separate accou
• § 849.3 — (a) Financing entities may issue water rate relief bonds upon approval by the commission in the financing order.
• § 849.4 — (a) A security interest in water supply property is valid, is enforceable against the pledgor and third parties, is subject to the rights of any third party holding a security interest in the water su
• § 849.5 — (a) A sale, assignment, or transfer of water supply property by a qualifying water utility to an affiliate or to a financing entity, or by an affiliate of a qualifying water utility or a financing ent
• § 849.6 — A successor to the qualified water utility, whether pursuant to bankruptcy, reorganization, or other insolvency proceeding, or pursuant to merger, sale, or transfer, by operation of law, or otherwise,
• § 850 — (a) This article applies in any of the following circumstances: (1) If an electrical corporation applies to the commission for recovery of costs and expenses related to a catastrophic wildfire and the
• § 850.1 — (a) If an electrical corporation files for recovery of recovery costs and the commission finds some or all of those costs and expenses to be just and reasonable pursuant to Section 451 or 451.
• § 850.2 — (a) The financing entity may issue recovery bonds upon approval by the commission in a financing order.
• § 850.3 — (a) A security interest in recovery property is valid, is enforceable against the pledgor and third parties, is subject to the rights of any third parties holding security interests in the recovery pr
• § 850.4 — (a) A transfer of recovery property by the electrical corporation to an affiliate or to a financing entity, or by an affiliate of the electrical corporation or a financing entity to another financing
• § 850.5 — Any successor to the electrical corporation, whether pursuant to any bankruptcy, reorganization, or other insolvency proceeding, or pursuant to any merger, sale, or transfer, by operation of law, or o
• § 850.6 — The authority of the commission to issue financing orders pursuant to Section 850.
• § 850.7 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 850.
• § 850.8 — This article shall not affect any civil action or proceeding.
• § 8500 — For purposes of this chapter, both of the following definitions apply: (a) “Energy storage system” means a stationary electrical energy storage system, as defined in Chapter 12 (commencing with Sectio
• § 8501 — An application submitted to a local jurisdiction for an energy storage system shall include the applicant’s certification that, at least 30 days before submitting the application, the applicant met an
• § 8502 — For any application submitted after January 1, 2026, a local jurisdiction shall not approve an energy storage system, unless the local jurisdiction requires, as a condition of approval, that after ins
• § 8503 — (a) For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions apply: (1) “Dedicated-use building” has the same meaning as defined in the California Building Standards Code (Title 24 of the Califo
• § 8504 — This chapter does not prevent a local jurisdiction from adopting and enforcing laws consistent with or more protective than this chapter.
• § 851 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a public utility, other than a common carrier by railroad subject to Part A of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.
• § 852 — No public utility, and no subsidiary or affiliate of, or corporation holding a controlling interest in, a public utility, shall purchase or acquire, take or hold, any part of the capital stock of any
• § 853 — (a) This article does not apply to any person or corporation which transacts no business subject to regulation under this part, except performing services or delivering commodities for or to public ut
• § 853.2 — For a water or sewer system corporation or an entity merging with or acquiring control of a water or sewer system corporation with less than 2,000 service connections, the following shall apply to tra
• § 854 — (a) A person or corporation, whether or not organized under the laws of this state, shall not directly or indirectly merge, acquire, or control, including pursuant to a change in control as described
• § 854.2 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) California’s electric and gas utilities provide essential services to California residents and businesses, which are necessary to maint
• § 854.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, a “nonstate entity” means a company, corporation, partnership, firm, or other entity or group of entities, whether organized for profit or not for profit.
• § 8550 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each utility shall, on or before March 1, 2026, automatically enroll its customers in alerts for service outages and updates.
• § 856 — Every officer, agent, or employee of a public utility, or of a subsidiary or affiliate of, or a corporation holding a controlling interest in, a public utility, and every other person subject to the r
• § 857 — (a) A public utility that owns real property acquired for purposes of obtaining a utility right-of-way, may lease that property to a governmental entity for purposes of a public park, if the utility r
• § 861 — (a) As used in this section, “special law water district” means the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the Yuba-Bear River Basin Authority and, if created by an uncodified special law, any of the f
• § 871 — This article shall be known and may be cited as the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act.
• § 871.5 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The offering of high-quality basic telephone service at affordable rates to the greatest number of citizens has been a longstanding goal of
• § 871.7 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act, enacted in 1987, was intended to offer high quality basic telephone service at affordable rates
• § 873 — (a) The commission shall annually do all of the following: (1) Designate a class of lifeline service necessary to meet minimum communications needs.
• § 874 — The lifeline telephone service rates and charges shall be as follows: (a) In a residential subscriber’s service area where measured service is not available, the lifeline telephone service rates shall
• § 875 — (a) In addition to Section 874, every lifeline telephone service subscriber shall be given an allowance, reduced by the amount of any credit or allowance authorized by the Federal Communications Commi
• § 876 — The commission shall require every telephone corporation providing telephone service within a service area to file a schedule of rates and charges providing a class of lifeline telephone service.
• § 876.5 — (a) The commission, its staff, the lifeline program’s third-party administrator, and lifeline service providers, and their contractors, agents, successors, or assignees, shall not share, disclose, or
• § 877 — Nothing in this article precludes the commission from changing any rate established pursuant to Section 873, either specifically or pursuant to any general restructuring of all telephone rates, charge
• § 878 — (a) A lifeline telephone service subscriber shall be provided with one lifeline subscription, as defined by the commission, at the subscriber’s principal place of residence, and no other member of tha
• § 878.5 — The commission shall adopt a portability freeze rule for the lifeline program by January 15, 2017.
• § 878.6 — (a) (1) Before March 1, 2022, the commission shall, as part of an existing proceeding, adopt updated rules for the lifeline program establishing a modified recertification process that minimizes barri
• § 879 — (a) The commission shall, at least annually, initiate a proceeding to set rates for lifeline telephone service.
• § 879.5 — Notwithstanding Section 879, the commission shall issue its initial order adopting required rates and funding requirements not later than October 31, 1987, and prior to the issuance of that order, may
• § 880 — The commission may determine any question of fact in its administration of this article.
• § 882 — (a) The Public Utilities Commission shall, as soon as practicable, open a proceeding or proceedings to, or as part of existing proceedings shall, consider ways to ensure that advanced telecommunicatio
• § 883 — (a) The commission shall, on or before February 1, 2001, issue an order initiating an investigation and opening a proceeding to examine the current and future definitions of universal service.
• § 884 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that any program administered by the commission that addresses the inequality of access to high-speed broadband services by providing those services to schools
• § 884.2 — The commission may require each internet service provider, as defined in Section 3100 of the Civil Code, to report the following information regarding each free, low-cost, income-qualified, or afforda
• § 884.5 — (a) This section shall apply to all customers eligible to receive discounts for telecommunications services under the federal Universal Service E-rate program administered by the Schools and Libraries
• § 885 — (a) Any entity offering the services of telephone prepaid debit cards is subject to the registration requirements of Section 1013, commencing January 1, 1999, unless that entity is certificated by the
• § 886 — Entities that are required to register, but have failed to do so, or entities that are denied registration by the commission, shall not offer the services of telephone prepaid debit cards.
• § 887 — The commission may enforce the standards and requirements of Section 17538.
• § 890 — (a) On and after January 1, 2001, there shall be imposed a surcharge on all natural gas consumed in this state.
• § 891 — (a) “Gas utility” means any public utility gas corporation or interstate pipeline as defined in this section.
• § 892 — The revenue from the surcharge imposed pursuant to this article and collected by a public utility gas corporation shall be paid to the State Board of Equalization in the form of remittances.
• § 892.1 — The surcharges imposed by this part and the amounts thereof required to be collected by public utility gas corporations are due quarterly on or before the last day of the month next succeeding each ca
• § 892.2 — On or before the last day of the month following each calendar quarter, a return for the preceding quarterly period shall be filed with the State Board of Equalization in such form as the board may pr
• § 893 — The State Board of Equalization shall administer the surcharge imposed pursuant to this article in accordance with the Fee Collection Procedures Law (Part 30 (commencing with Section 55001) of Divisio
• § 894 — The State Board of Equalization may collect any unpaid surcharge imposed pursuant to this article.
• § 895 — Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, moneys in the Gas Consumption Surcharge Fund are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, as follows: (a) To the commission or a
• § 896 — “Consumption” means the use or employment of natural gas.
• § 897 — Nothing in this article impairs the rights and obligations of parties to contracts approved by the commission, as the rights and obligations were interpreted as of January 1, 1998.
• § 898 — Notwithstanding Section 890, a municipality, district, or public agency that offers in published tariffs home weatherization services, rate assistance for low-income customers, or programs similar to
• § 899 — Sections 890 and 892 do not apply to any gas customer of a municipality, district, or public agency exempted by Section 898 from collecting a surcharge.
• § 9 — Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and additions heretofore or hereafter made.
• § 900 — The commission shall determine the most efficient and cost-effective way to provide programs pursuant to Sections 739.
• § 90000 — This part shall be known and cited as the “San Diego County Transit District Act of 1965.
• § 90001 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this article govern the construction of this part.
• § 90002 — “District” means the San Diego County Transit District.
• § 90003 — “Board” means the board of directors of the district.
• § 90004 — “Voter” means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.
• § 90005 — “Transit” means the transportation of passengers only and their incidental baggage by means other than by chartered bus, sightseeing bus, or any other motor vehicle not on an individual passenger fare
• § 90006 — “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.
• § 90020 — It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of California to develop transit system districts in the various metropolitan areas within the state for the benefit of the people.
• § 90021 — The San Diego County Transit District may be created as provided in this part and when so created may exercise the powers herein granted.
• § 90022 — 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
• § 90023 — 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.
• § 90024 — 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
• § 90025 — The district is hereby designated a rapid transit district and the transit facilities and services the district is authorized to acquire, own, operate, control, or use are designated a rapid transit s
• § 90050 — The area to be embraced in the district shall include all of the corporate area of each of the Cities of San Diego, Chula Vista, Coronado, National City, La Mesa, El Cajon, and Imperial Beach which es
• § 90070 — The Board of Supervisors of San Diego County shall call an election in the area to be included within the district on the question of the formation of the district if either of the two conditions spec
• § 90071 — Each signer of a petition within a particular city shall be a registered voter and resident of that city.
• § 90072 — Upon receipt of the resolutions or petitions, or sufficient combination of both, the board of supervisors shall call a hearing thereon not less than 77 days nor more than 91 days following the receipt