Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

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…

The board shall provide for the coverage of the officers and employees of the district under the workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation disability, and unemployment insurance laws of the State of California. (Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1454.)

Subject to such regulations and schedule of contributions of premiums as it shall determine, the board shall provide for group health and medical insurance for such officers and employees of the district who are members of the retirement system provided for by Chapter 10 (commenc…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public utility district in the Lake Tahoe Basin which has provided or undertaken to provide a sewer system and treatment facilities which transport or are intended to transport any resultant sewage effluent outside the Lake Tahoe Ba…

(a) The zones authorized by this chapter shall be formed in the same manner as assessment districts are formed pursuant to the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 (Division 12 (commencing with Section 10000), Streets and Highways Code). (b) The resolution of intention to form a zon…

Bonds of a zone formed pursuant to this chapter shall be issued in the amount of the costs of the improvements of the zone, notwithstanding Section 16573, payable in 25 or less serial annual amounts, and shall be in the same form, payable in the same manner, and be of the same ef…

The board shall annually, at the time of levying taxes for general district purposes, fix a rate of ad valorem tax upon the taxable real property in the zone created therefor, sufficient to pay the zone bond principal and interest as they become due before the proceeds of another…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that special facts exist with respect to public utility districts in the Lake Tahoe Basin which require the enactment of this chapter, applicable only to such districts. The special facts are as follows: (a) There is an urgent need for im…

Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that any common carrier, other than a railroad corporation, has charged, collected, or received a lesser compensation for the transportation of persons or property, or for any service in connection therewith, than the applicable rat…

The commission shall see that the provisions of the Constitution and statutes of this State affecting public utilities, the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in some other officer or tribunal, are enforced and obeyed, and that violations thereof are promptly prosecu…

Whenever the commission is of the opinion that any public utility is failing or omitting or about to fail or omit, to do anything required of it by law, or by any order, decision, rule, direction, or requirement of the commission, or is doing anything or about to do anything, or …

Upon the filing of a petition pursuant to Section 2102, the court shall specify a time, not exceeding 20 days after the service of the copy of the petition, within which the public utility complained of shall answer the petition, and in the meantime the public utility may be rest…

(a) Except as provided by Sections 2100 and 2107.5, actions to recover penalties under this part shall be brought in the name of the people of the State of California, in the superior court in and for the county, or city and county, in which the cause or some part thereof arose, …

Any penalty for violation of any provision of this act, or of any rule, regulation, general order, or order of the commission, involving safety standards for pipeline facilities or the transportation of gas in the State of California may be compromised by the commission. In deter…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2104, all moneys collected pursuant to any settlements, unless restricted by a court for another purpose, abatement orders, fines, or penalties by the commission from a gas corporation serving the Los Angeles Basin pursuant to an administrative enforce…

All penalties accruing under this part shall be cumulative, and a suit for the recovery of one penalty shall not be a bar to or affect the recovery of any other penalty or forfeiture or be a bar to any criminal prosecution against any public utility, or any officer, director, age…

Any public utility which does, causes to be done, or permits any act, matter, or thing prohibited or declared unlawful, or which omits to do any act, matter, or thing required to be done, either by the Constitution, any law of this State, or any order or decision of the commissio…

Any public utility that violates or fails to comply with any provision of the Constitution of this state or of this part, or that fails or neglects to comply with any part or provision of any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission, in a…

When the commission finds, after hearing, that any person or corporation has knowingly aided or abetted a common carrier in violating Section 458 or has violated Section 459, or any order, decision, rule, regulation, direction, demand, or requirement issued under those provisions…

Every violation of the provisions of this part or of any part of any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission, by any corporation or person is a separate and distinct offense, and in case of a continuing violation each day’s continuance t…

In construing and enforcing the provisions of this part relating to penalties, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or employee of any public utility, acting within the scope of his official duties or employment, shall in every case be the act, omission, or failur…

Every public utility and every officer, agent, or employee of any public utility, who violates or fails to comply with, or who procures, aids, or abets any violation by any public utility of any provision of the California Constitution or of this part, or who fails to comply with…

Every corporation or person, other than a public utility and its officers, agents, or employees, which or who knowingly violates or fails to comply with, or procures, aids or abets any violation of any provision of the California Constitution relating to public utilities or of th…

Every person who, either individually, or acting as an officer, agent, or employee of a corporation other than a public utility, violates any provision of this part, or fails to comply with any part of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who willfully violates the provisions of Section 588 is guilty of a misdemeanor, subject to a penalty of not less than five hundred dollars ($500), nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000), for each offense. (Added by Stat…

Every public utility, corporation, or person which fails to comply with any part of any order, decision, rule, regulation, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission or any commissioner is in contempt of the commission, and is punishable by the commission for contempt in…

Any public utility on whose behalf any agent or officer thereof who, having taken an oath that he will testify, declare, depose or certify truly before the commission, willfully and contrary to such oath states or submits as true any material matter which he knows to be false, or…

Whenever the commission determines that a railroad corporation has violated any order of the commission concerning the adequacy, condition, or safety of the corporation’s cars or tracks or any related fixture or appliance, the commission may impose upon the corporation a fine of …

(a) Whenever a written notice to appear has been mailed to the owner of a passenger stage, an exact and legible duplicate copy of the notice, when filed with the magistrate in lieu of a verified complaint, is a complaint to which the defendant may plead guilty. (b) If, however, t…

Every passenger stage corporation and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a passenger stage corporation, who displays on any vehicle any identifying symbol other than one prescribed by the commission pursuant to Section 1038.5, or who fails to remove an identifying sym…

(a) The commission shall not distribute, expend, or encumber any moneys received by the commission as a result of any commission proceeding or judicial action, including the compromise or settlement of a claim, until both of the following are true: (1) The commission has provided…

The board of any district which operates no transit facilities, or with exterior boundaries coincident with the boundaries of a single city, may call an election at any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether the district will be d…

The election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved shall be held on the next established election date not less than 74 days next succeeding the date on which the petition is filed. (Amended by S…

Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published. The date fixed for the election shall not be less than 30 days from the date of the first publication of the notice. (Added by …

The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and in addition the following: Shall the “(giving the name thereof) transit district” be dissolved? YES NO (Added by Stats. 19…

No other notice of the election other than that provided for in this chapter need be given and no sample ballots need be sent to the voters. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were in favor of the dissolution, the dissolution shall be deemed carried and approved by the voters. The board shall meet on Monday next succeeding the election and…

Upon dissolution of any district which has boundaries that are coincident with the corporate limits of a city, the district property wherever situated vests absolutely in the city, and upon the dissolution of any district operating no transit facilities and which has boundaries t…

If at the time of dissolution there is any outstanding indebtedness of the district the legislative authority of the city, where the limits of the district lie wholly within the corporate limits of a city, and in all other cases the board of supervisors of the county in which the…

In the event that the proposition for dissolution fails to carry, no subsequent election for the dissolution of the district shall be called until after the expiration of one year from the date of the prior election. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1036.)

If district bonds for the acquisition or construction of rapid transit facilities have not been voted by the electors within five years of the creation of the district, the board of directors may call an election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the que…

The election, for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved, shall be held within 60 days following the date on which it is ordered by the board or on which the petition is filed. (Amended by Stats. 1984…

Notice of any election for dissolution, whether called because of the filing of a petition or ordered by the board without petition, shall be published. The date fixed for the election shall not be less than 30 days from the date of the first publication of the notice. (Amended b…

The ballots for the election shall contain substantially the instructions required to be printed on ballots for use at general state and county elections and in addition the following: Shall the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District be dissolved? YES NO (Amended by Stats.…

No other notice of the election other than that provided for in this article need be given and no sample ballots need be sent to the voters. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1056.)

If upon a canvass of the election it is found that a majority of all votes cast on the proposition at the election were in favor of the dissolution, the dissolution shall be deemed carried and approved by the voters. The board shall meet on Monday next succeeding the election and…