California Laws: Public Utilities Code Sections 727-755
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 734
When complaint has been made to the commission concerning any rate for any product or commodity furnished or service performed by any public utility, and...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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,...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 739
(a) The commission shall designate a baseline quantity of gas and electricity which is necessary to supply a significant portion of the reasonable energy needs...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 739.1
(a) The commission shall establish a program of assistance to low-income electric and gas customers, the cost of which shall not be borne solely by...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 739.3
(a) The commission shall develop, implement, and maintain a suitable program to establish a fair and equitable local rate structure aided by universal service rate...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 739.5
(a) The commission shall require that, whenever gas or electric service, or both, is provided by a master-meter customer to users who are tenants of...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 739.7
In establishing residential rates, the commission shall retain an appropriate inverted rate structure. If the commission increases baseline rates pursuant to Section 739, revenues resulting...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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 Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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....
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 740.3
(a) The commission, in cooperation with the State Energy Conservation and Development Commission, the State Air Resources Board, air quality management districts and air pollution...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 740.4
(a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to engage in programs to encourage economic development. (b) Reasonable expenses for economic development programs, as specified in...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 740.8
As used in Section 740.3, "interests" of ratepayers, short- or long-term, mean direct benefits that are specific to ratepayers in the form of safer, more...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 741
Every owner or operator of coin-activated telephones available for public use, other than a telephone corporation, which, as part of the service furnished, provides operator-assisted...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 742
(a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones available for public use owned or...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 743.1
(a) Electrical corporations shall continue the availability to qualified heavy industrial customers of optional interruptible or curtailable service. The effective rate for interruptible or curtailable...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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. (b)...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 747
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission reduce rates for electricity and natural gas to the lowest amount possible. (b) The...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 747.5
The commission shall review its policies concerning pricing of utility service and shall assess whether the pricing policies promote the pursuit of energy efficiency by...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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. Utilities...
- California Laws: Public Utilities Code Section 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...
