Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

Except as otherwise provided in this part, the law governing the qualifications of electors, the manner of voting, the duties of election officers, the canvassing of returns, declaration of results, and all other particulars in respect to the calling and holding of general munici…

“District” means airport district, formed and proposed to be formed, pursuant to this part. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 151.)

“Principal county” means the county in which all of the territory of the district is situated, or if the territory is situated in more than one county, the county in which the greatest portion of the territory is situated. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 151.)

“Affected county” means any county in which the territory of the district is situated. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 151.)

“Board” means the board of directors of the district. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 151.)

“Director” means member of the board. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 151.)

“Secretary” means secretary of the board. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 151.)

“Bond election” means an election provided for in Article 2 (commencing with Section 22731) of Chapter 5. (Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 144, Sec. 174.)

“Formation election” means an election provided for in Article 4 (commencing with Section 22226) of Chapter 2. (Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 144, Sec. 175.)

“Bond tax” means the tax levied pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 22901) for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the district. (Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 144, Sec. 176.)

“District tax” means the tax levied pursuant to Chapter 6 for the payment of expenses of, and claims against the district, other than the bonded indebtedness. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 151.)

“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, delivery, underground storage, or furnishing of gas, natural or manufactured, except propan…

“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 or produced on and distributed by the maker or producer through private property alone solely for his own …

“Golden State Energy” means the nonprofit public benefit corporation that is incorporated and operating pursuant to Division 1.7 (commencing with Section 3400). (Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 27, Sec. 5. (SB 350) Effective January 1, 2021.)

“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, delivery or furnishing of heat for domestic, business, industrial, or public use. (Enact…

“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 on or distributed by the producer through private property alone solely for his own use or the …

“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 byproduct of the materials composing the landfill. For purposes of this division, real estate, fixtures, and personal proper…

“Local publicly owned electric utility” means a municipality or municipal corporation operating as a “public utility” furnishing electric service as provided in Section 10001, a municipal utility district furnishing electric service formed pursuant to Division 6 (commencing with …

(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, nonvoice information communicated to handheld personal digital assistant (PDA) devices and laptop compute…

“Motor carrier of property” means a motor carrier of property as defined in Section 34601 of the Vehicle Code. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1042, Sec. 10. Effective September 29, 1996.)

“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 Section 10501 of Title 49 of the United States Code. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 1005, Sec. 4.5. Eff…

“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 persons or baggage or express, when such baggage or express is transported incidental to the transportation of passengers.…

(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 passenger stage over any public highway in this state between fixed termini or over a regular route exc…

“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, or delivery of crude oil or other fluid substances except water through pipe lines. (Enacted…

“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 corporation or person employing landfill gas technology and owning, controlling, ope…

“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 all tracks, bridges, trestles, rights of way, subways, tunnels, stations, depots, union depots, fer…

“Railroad corporation” includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any railroad for compensation within this State. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

“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 States District Court for the District of Columbia circuit in the case of the United States v. Western Electric Co., Inc., and …

“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 disposition for sanitary or drainage purposes, including any and all lateral and connecting sewers…

“Sewer system corporation” includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any sewer system for compensation within this state. (Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1110.)

“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, road, highway, bridge, or public place within any city or city and county, together with all real estate, fix…

“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, or managing as a part of or in conjunction with such street railroad any autom…

“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 managed in connection with or to facilitate communication by telephone, whether such commun…

(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 not include any of the following: (1) Any hospital, hotel, motel, or similar place …

“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 managed in connection with or to facilitate communication by telegraph, whether such commun…

“Telegraph corporation” includes every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telegraph line for compensation within this State. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

“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 property for compensation in this State. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

“Transportation electrification” means the use of electricity from external sources of electrical power, including the electrical grid, for all or part of vehicles, vessels, trains, boats, or other equipment that are mobile sources of air pollution and greenhouse gases and the re…

(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 persons or property, except rowboats, sailing boats, barges under 20 tons dead weight carrying capacity, and ve…

(a) (1) “Voice over Internet Protocol” or “VoIP” means voice communications service that does all of the following: (A) Uses Internet Protocol or a successor protocol to enable real-time, two-way voice communication that originates from, or terminates at, the user’s location in I…

“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, owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the diversio…

The division shall be known and may be cited as the Riverside County Transportation Sales Tax Act. (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 270, Sec. 2. Effective July 28, 1987.)

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Recognizing the scarcity of resources available for all transportation development, alternative methods of financing provided in this division are needed to finance the cost of constructing, developing, acquiring…

“Bonds” means indebtedness and securities of any kind or class, including bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, and commercial paper. (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 270, Sec. 2. Effective July 28, 1987.)

“Commission” means the Riverside County Transportation Commission created pursuant to Section 130054. (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 270, Sec. 2. Effective July 28, 1987.)

“County” means the County of Riverside. (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 270, Sec. 2. Effective July 28, 1987.)