California Laws: Public Utilities Code Sections 201-248
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 201
This part may be cited as the "Public Utilities Act." ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 202
Neither this part nor any provision thereof, except when specifically so stated, shall apply to commerce with foreign nations or to interstate commerce, except insofar...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 203
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 204
"Corporation" includes a corporation, a company, an association, and a joint stock association. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 205
"Person" includes an individual, a firm, and a copartnership. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 206
As used in this chapter "person" and "corporation" include the lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, of the person or corporation....
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 207
"Public or any portion thereof" means the public generally, or any limited portion of the public, including a person, private corporation, municipality, or other political...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 208
"Transportation of persons" includes every service in connection with or incidental to the safety, comfort, or convenience of the person transported and the receipt, carriage,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 209
"Transportation of property" includes every service in connection with or incidental to the transportation of property, including in particular its receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer, switching,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 210
"Rates" includes rates, fares, tolls, rentals, and charges, unless the context indicates otherwise. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 211
"Common carrier" means every person and corporation providing transportation for compensation to or for the public or any portion thereof, except as otherwise provided in...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 212
"Common carrier" shall not include: (a) Any corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any vessel, by reason of the furnishing of water transportation...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 214.5
With respect to a motor vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for compensation by a passenger stage corporation, "owner" means the corporation or person...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 215
"Between fixed termini or over a regular route" means the termini or route between which, or over which any passenger stage corporation usually or ordinarily...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 215.6
"Food products for human consumption" means articles used for human food or drink and articles used as components of any of those articles. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 215.7
"Nonfood product" means any article, material, substance, or product which is not food. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 216
(a) "Public utility" includes every common carrier, toll bridge corporation, pipeline corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewer system corporation,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 216.2
Notwithstanding Section 216, "public utility" does not include a motor carrier of property. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 216.4
"Cable television corporation" shall mean any corporation or firm which transmits television programs by cable to subscribers for a fee. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 216.6
"Cogeneration" means the sequential use of energy for the production of electrical and useful thermal energy. The sequence can be thermal use followed by power...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 216.8
"Commercial mobile radio service" means "commercial mobile service," as defined in subsection (d) of Section 332 of Title 47 of the United States Code and...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 217
"Electric plant" includes all real estate, fixtures and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 218
(a) "Electrical corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant for compensation within this state, except where electricity is...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 218.3
"Electric service provider" means an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation, as defined in Section 218,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 219
"Express corporation" includes every corporation or person engaged in or transacting the business of transporting any freight, merchandise, or other property for compensation on the...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 220
"Freight forwarder" means any corporation or person who for compensation undertakes the collection and shipment of property of others, and as consignor or otherwise ships...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 221
"Gas plant" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property, owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 222
"Gas corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any gas plant for compensation within this state, except where gas is made...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 223
"Heating plant" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 224
"Heat corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any heating plant for compensation within this state, except where heat is generated...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 224.2
"Landfill gas technology" means the process of extraction of gas or gaseous compounds from sanitary landfill areas which gas or compound was generated as a...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 224.4
(a) "Mobile data service" means the delivery of nonvoice information to a mobile device and includes nonvoice information communicated to a mobile telephony services handset,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 224.6
"Motor carrier of property" means a motor carrier of property as defined in Section 34601 of the Vehicle Code. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 224.8
"Network railroad transportation" means railroad transportation that is subject to the jurisdiction of the federal Surface Transportation Board pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 225
"Passenger stage" includes every stage, auto stage, or other motor vehicle used in the transportation of persons, or persons and their baggage or express, or...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 226
(a) "Passenger stage corporation" includes every corporation or person engaged as a common carrier, for compensation, in the ownership, control, operation, or management of any...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 227
"Pipe line" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property, owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the transmission, storage, distribution,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 228
"Pipeline corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any pipeline for compensation within this state. "Pipeline corporation" shall not include a...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 228.5
(a) The terms "qualifying small power producer," "small power production facility," and "qualifying small power production facility" have the same meaning as found in Section...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 229
"Railroad" includes every commercial, interurban, and other railway, other than a street railroad, and each branch or extension thereof, by whatsoever power operated, together with...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 230
"Railroad corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any railroad for compensation within this State. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 230.3
"Service area," for purposes of the operations of a telephone corporation, means a local access and transport area as defined and approved by the United...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 230.5
"Sewer system" includes all real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate sewage collection, treatment, or...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 230.6
"Sewer system corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any sewer system for compensation within this state. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 231
"Street railroad" includes every railway, and each branch or extension thereof, by whatsoever power operated, being mainly upon, along, above or below any street, avenue,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 232
"Street railroad corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any street railroad for compensation within this State, or owning, controlling, operating,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 233
"Telephone line" includes all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 234
(a) "Telephone corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telephone line for compensation within this state. (b) "Telephone corporation" does...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 235
"Telegraph line" includes all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 236
"Telegraph corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telegraph line for compensation within this State. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 237
"Toll-bridge corporation" includes every private corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any bridge or appurtenance thereto, used for the transportation of persons or...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 238
(a) "Vessel" includes every species of watercraft, by whatsoever power operated, which is owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 240
"Water system" includes all reservoirs, tunnels, shafts, dams, dikes, headgates, pipes, flumes, canals, structures, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 241
"Water corporation" includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any water system for compensation within this State. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 243
This part shall not release or waive any right of action by the State, the commission, or any person or corporation for any right, penalty,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 244
No transit district, common carrier, or publicly owned transit system shall require any person to waive, limit, or qualify any right to recover damages for...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 246
A person or corporation shall not be a public utility subject to the jurisdiction, control and regulation of the commission and the provisions of this...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 247
Any provision of this part that is in conflict with the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, (47 U.S.C. Sec. 332(c)(3)) shall not apply to...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 247.1
(a) The Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act (P.L. 106-252) was enacted for the purpose of establishing nationwide uniform sourcing rules for the imposition of state and...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 248
Any provision of the Public Utilities Act that is in conflict with the railroad provisions of Part A of Subtitle 4 of Title 49 of...
