California Laws: Public Utilities Code Sections 301-327
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 301
The membership of the Public Utilities Commission, and the qualifications and tenure of the members of the commission are as provided in Section 1 of...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 302
Each commissioner shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. ...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 303
(a) A public utilities commissioner may not hold an official relation to nor have a financial interest in a person or corporation subject to regulation...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 304
The annual salary of each commissioner is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 305
The Governor shall designate a president of the commission from among the members of the commission. The president shall direct the executive director, the attorney,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 306
(a) The office of the commission shall be in the City and County of San Francisco. The office shall always be open, legal holidays and...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 307
(a) The commission may appoint as attorney to the commission an attorney at law of this state, who shall hold office during the pleasure of...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 308
(a) The commission shall appoint an executive director, who shall hold office during its pleasure. The executive director shall be responsible for the commission's executive...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 308.5
Persons employed as investigators and investigator supervisors of the Consumer Services Division or the Rail Safety and Carrier Division of the commission who are designated...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 309
The executive director may employ such officers, administrative law judges, experts, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks, and employees as the executive director deems necessary to...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 309.1
(a) The Governor may appoint one adviser for each member of the commission upon the request of the commission member. Each adviser shall receive a...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 309.5
(a) There is within the commission a Division of Ratepayer Advocates to represent and advocate on behalf of the interests of public utility customers and...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 309.6
(a) The commission shall adopt procedures on the disqualification of administrative law judges due to bias or prejudice similar to those of other state agencies...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 309.7
(a) The division of the commission responsible for consumer protection and safety shall be responsible for inspection, surveillance, and investigation of the rights-of-way, facilities, equipment,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 310
No vacancy in the commission impairs the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the commission. A majority of the commissioners...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 311
(a) The commission, each commissioner, the executive director, and the assistant executive directors may administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and issue subpoenas for...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 311.1
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission shall not consider or require, in determining qualified bidders for, or in awarding contracts, that any facilities...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 311.4
(a) On or after July 1, 2001, the commission shall establish procedures to permit the submission of informal complaints through electronic means in accordance with...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 311.5
(a) (1) Prior to commencement of any meeting at which commissioners vote on items on the public agenda the commission shall make available to the...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 312
The commission and each commissioner may issue writs of summons, subpenas, warrants of attachment, warrants of commitment, and all necessary process in proceedings for contempt,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 313
The commission may require, by order served on any public utility, the production within this State at such time and place as it designates, of...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 314
(a) The commission, each commissioner, and each officer and person employed by the commission may, at any time, inspect the accounts, books, papers, and documents...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 314.5
The commission shall inspect and audit the books and records for regulatory and tax purposes (a) at least once in every three years in the...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 315
The commission shall investigate the cause of all accidents occurring within this State upon the property of any public utility or directly or indirectly arising...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 317
The commission may request the local agency formation commission to advise it as to any special districts as defined in Section 54775 of the Government...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 320
The Legislature hereby declares that it is the policy of this state to achieve, whenever feasible and not inconsistent with sound environmental planning, the undergrounding...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 321
(a) The commission shall establish an office of the public advisor and shall appoint a public advisor, including a separate office in the Los Angeles...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 321.1
It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission assess the economic effects or consequences of its decisions as part of each ratemaking, rulemaking,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 321.6
The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Develop, publish, and annually update an annual work plan that describes in clear detail the scheduled...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 322
(a) The commission shall periodically, at least once each year, compile its rules of procedure together with every order and decision of the commission relating...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 322.5
The commission shall determine, as part of the proceeding in Rulemaking 98-07-038 (Rulemaking for purposes of Revising General Order 96-A Regarding Informal Filings at the...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 323
(a) Commencing January 1, 1989, the commission shall cause the complete text of each of its orders and decisions to be published within a reasonable...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 324
The executive director of the commission may release to the Director of Industrial Relations any information concerning any person, corporation, or other entity under the...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 324.5
(a) The Public Utilities Commission shall publish any data it collects for its clearinghouse minority and women business data base that it deems to be...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 325
(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the commission should have the authority to act swiftly to expedite planning for the long-term recovery in...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 327
(a) The electric and gas corporations that participate in the California Alternative Rates for Energy program, as established pursuant to Section 739.1, shall administer low-income...
