Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

Any landowner or taxpayer within the district may appear at the hearing either in behalf of or in opposition to the granting of the petition. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

The petition shall come on for hearing before the board at the time and place specified in the notice of hearing. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

If upon the hearing the board determines that it is for the best interests of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition or some portion thereof be excluded from the district, or if it appears that the lands or some portion thereof will not be benefited by their contin…

A copy of the order of exclusion certified by the secretary of the district shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the lands are situated. The record of the certified copy is prima facie evidence of the exclusion from the district of the lan…

From and after the making of the order of exclusion and the record thereof the lands excluded are no longer included in the district. The order of exclusion does not invalidate in any manner any taxes or assessments theretofore levied or assessed against the lands excluded nor re…

As used in this article, “automatic dialing-announcing device” means any automatic equipment which incorporates a storage capability of telephone numbers to be called or a random or sequential number generator capable of producing numbers to be called and the capability, working …

(a) The connection of automatic dialing-announcing devices to a telephone line is subject to this article and to the jurisdiction, control, and regulation of the commission. (b) A person shall not operate an automatic dialing-announcing device except in accordance with this artic…

The commission, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, shall open an investigative proceeding to determine whether standardized notification systems and protocol should be utilized by entities that are authorized to use automatic dialing-announcing devices pursuan…

Automatic dialing-announcing devices may be used to place calls over telephone lines only pursuant to a prior agreement between the persons involved, whereby the person called has agreed that he or she consents to receive such calls from the person calling, or as specified in Sec…

(a) Whenever telephone calls are placed through the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device, the device may be operated only after an unrecorded, natural voice announcement has been made to the person called by the person calling. The announcement shall do all of the follow…

No person shall connect any automatic dialing-announcing device to any telephone line without first making written application to the telephone corporation within whose service area telephone calls through the use of such device are proposed to be placed. In such application, the…

(a) On and after July 1, 2002, no person operating any automatic equipment that incorporates a storage capability of telephone numbers to be called or a random or sequential number generator capable of producing numbers to be called may make a telephone connection for which no pe…

Any person violating this article is guilty of a civil offense and is subject to either or both of the following penalties: (a) A fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) for each violation, levied and enforced by the commission, on complaint or on its own motion, pursua…

If the city to which any territory included in any district has been annexed already provides transit service in the territory annexed, or if any territory in any district is annexed to a city, not a part of any district as originally established pursuant to this part, and not an…

The petition shall contain the information prescribed for petitions for exclusion under Article 1 of this chapter, a deposit for expenses shall be made as therein provided, and thereafter all proceedings shall be had as provided therein for such petitions after filing. (Added by …

If an order of exclusion is granted, the board and the governing body of the city shall by contract provide for the payment by the city of the proportion of the taxes and bonded indebtedness for which the territory excluded is justly liable. If they do not agree, either may petit…

The order of exclusion does not invalidate in any manner any taxes or assessments theretofore levied or assessed against the lands excluded nor relieve the property excluded from any outstanding bonds which are a lien thereon at the time of exclusion, nor from any taxes to pay th…

(a) The commission shall design and implement a program to provide a telecommunications device capable of serving the needs of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, together with a single party line, at no charge additional to the basic exchange rate, to a subscriber who i…

(a) In addition to the requirements of Section 2881, the commission shall design and implement a program to provide a telecommunications device capable of servicing the needs of the deaf or severely hard of hearing, together with a single party line, at no charge additional to th…

(a) In addition to the requirements of Section 2881, the commission shall design and implement a program that shall provide for publicly available telecommunications devices capable of servicing the needs of the deaf or hard of hearing in existing buildings, structures, facilitie…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Section 278 requires the commission to transfer to the Controller for deposit in the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee Fund all revenues collected by telephone corporations to fun…

(a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (A) As originally enacted, Section 2883 required local telephone corporations to provide a residential telephone connection with no customer account attached, also known as a warm line, access to “911” emergency ser…

(a) The commission shall, pursuant to its existing authority, by rule or order, establish procedures governing telephone corporation billing practices and operations to require every telephone corporation, on and after July 1, 1986, or on and after another date or dates which the…

(a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), the billing and collection practices of a telephone corporation for services rendered to or for an information service that contains harmful matter, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 313 of the Penal Code, are not subject to the …

Notwithstanding Section 2884, the commission shall require that telephone subscriber access to information services providing messages which constitute harmful matter, as defined in Section 313 of the Penal Code, be furnished by an information provider or its agent on a subscript…

(a) The commission shall require telephone corporations and providers of information-access telephone services to institute a method of handling subscriber complaints concerning these services, which shall include provision for a waiver of all of the charges for these services fo…

The commission shall, on or before July 1, 1987, determine the feasibility of requiring that, whenever a call is placed from a cellular telephone, the person receiving the call receive a notification indicating that the call is being placed from a cellular telephone and that the …

(a) The commission shall require mobile telephony service, as defined in Section 224.4, carriers to provide the commission, within six months of the effective date of the act that adds this section, and thereafter as requested by the commission, with information, as specified by …

(a) The commission shall require every telephone corporation furnishing mobile telephony service, as defined in Section 224.4, to establish a pricing system made available to subscribers that shall distinguish on the billing invoice charges to a subscriber for calls not completed…

The commission shall pursue all available legal remedies to redraw intrastate inter-exchange, also known as local access and transport area, or LATA, boundaries for the purpose of eliminating restrictions that result in discriminatory costs, added inconvenience, and less service …

(a) An information provider engaged in furnishing any live, recorded, or recorded-interactive audio text through information access telephone service shall provide a (1) delayed timing of information charges and (2) price disclosure message. (b) The telephone corporation shall pr…

No telephone corporation or provider of information-access telephone services shall charge the subscribing party for a call made to a telephone number with an “800” prefix, unless the telephone number with an “800” prefix is an information service complying with the presubscripti…

(a) (1) Before a telephone corporation exits the business of providing interexchange services to all of its customers or to an entire class of its customers, the telephone corporation or any person, firm, or corporation representing the telephone corporation, shall provide those …

(a) A local exchange service provider that offers and charges for pay per use features that do not require an access code to be dialed to activate the service shall provide a new residential subscriber, including an existing residential customer ordering an additional line, durin…

(a) No telephone corporation, or any person, firm, or corporation representing a telephone corporation, shall make any change or authorize a different telephone corporation to make any change in the provider of any telephone service for which competition has been authorized of a …

The commission shall, by rule or order, require all local exchange carriers to do both of the following: (a) Include in their telephone directory information concerning emergency situations which may affect the telephone network. The information shall include the procedures which…

The commission periodically shall assess the reliability of the public telecommunications network and, if necessary, develop recommendations for improvement. The assessment shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (a) An analysis of those factors that pose a ri…

(a) No person or corporation shall misrepresent its association or affiliation with a telephone carrier when soliciting, inducing, or otherwise implementing the subscriber’s agreement to purchase the products or services of the person or corporation, and have the charge for the p…

(a) A telephone bill may only contain charges for products or services, the purchase of which the subscriber has authorized. (b) When a person or corporation obtains a written order for a product or service, the written order shall be a separate document from any solicitation mat…

The commission shall, on or before July 1, 2001, adopt any additional rules it determines to be necessary to implement the billing safeguards of Section 2890, for the inclusion of noncommunications-related products and services in telephone bills. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 931, …

(a) A provider of mobile telephony services, as defined in Section 224.4, shall provide subscribers with a means by which a subscriber can obtain reasonably current and available information, as determined by the provider, on the subscriber’s calling plan or plans and service usa…

The provisions of this article are alternative to any other provisions for the exclusion of territory from the district. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 116.)

Any time after the defeat of a bond issue by the voters of the district any city or unincorporated territory, a majority of whose voters voting on a district bond issue proposition voted against said proposition, may be excluded by order of the board upon receipt by the board of …

The petition or resolution shall state the reasons for the proposed exclusion and that the area will not be benefited by inclusion in the district, shall define the boundaries of the area proposed to be excluded, and request that the area be excluded. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1…

(a) If the exclusion is initiated by a city council or a board of supervisors, such legislative body shall hold a public hearing on the proposal to adopt the resolution. A notice of the hearing shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the area pr…

Within 60 days after the receipt of a petition for exclusion, the board shall hear the petition or resolution at a regular or adjourned meeting of the board. Notice of the filing of the petition or resolution shall be given by publication of the petition or resolution in a newspa…