Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

If any person or corporation subject to this chapter is in default of the preparation and submission of any report or the payment of any fee required by this chapter for a period of 30 days or more, the commission may suspend or revoke the certificate of public convenience and ne…

The commission may bring an action, in its own name or in the name of the people of the state, in any court of competent jurisdiction, for the collection of delinquent fees estimated under Section 405, or for an amount due, owing, and unpaid to it, as shown by report filed by the…

The commission shall authorize refunds of the fees provided for in this chapter when the fees were collected in error. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 323, Sec. 71. Effective July 1, 1983.)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees and charges collected by the commission pursuant to this code from each common carrier and related business subject to Section 421 and from interstate or foreign highway carriers registered pursuant to the Interstate and Foreig…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fees and charges collected pursuant to this code by the commission from each public utility subject to Section 431, with the exception of any penalty collected pursuant to Section 405 or 406, shall be deposited in the Public Uti…

The commission shall maintain those records as are necessary to account separately for all fees and charges, including the fees authorized by Section 431, received from each class of utility subject to Article 3 (commencing with Section 431) and remitted pursuant to Section 409. …

The commission may establish rules and regulations that it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 323, Sec. 71. Effective July 1, 1983.)

There is hereby created a surcharge to be applied to natural gas and electricity transported over utility and nonutility transmission or distribution systems, or both, constructed under, along, across, or upon the public streets, ways, alleys, and places within a municipality, to…

(a) The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by every passenger stage corporation, charter-party carrier of passengers, pipeline corporation, for-hire vessel operator, common carrier vessel operator, railroad corporation, and commercial air operator, and every oth…

The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 421 with the approval of the Department of Finance and in accordance with all of the following: (a) In its annual budget request, the commission shall specify, at a minimum, both of the following: (1) The amount of its bu…

In addition to the requirements of Section 422, the commission may establish a uniform annual fee to be paid by every charter-party carrier of passengers. (Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1369, Sec. 2.)

Except as provided in Section 404, every carrier and related business subject to Section 421 shall make the payments of the required fee in accordance with the following schedule: (a) Every carrier and related business with annual gross intrastate revenues of one hundred thousand…

As used in this article: (a) “Class” means a group of carriers or related businesses as specified by the commission for purposes of establishing the fees pursuant to this article. The commission shall create separate classes for the following: passenger vehicle operators, pipelin…

The employees, representatives, and inspectors of the commission may, under its order or direction, inspect and examine any books, accounts, records, memoranda, documents, papers, and correspondence kept or required to be kept by any carrier or related business referred to in thi…

The commission shall use all moneys paid into the Public Utilities Commission Transportation Reimbursement Account by charter-party carriers in connection with charter bus transportation, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 5363, solely for the following purposes: (a) Safety…

As used in this chapter: (a) “Municipality” includes counties. (b) “Energy transporter” means and includes every utility and nonutility owner or operator, or both, of a natural gas or electric transmission or distribution system, or both, subject to a franchise agreement executed…

(a) The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by every electrical, gas, telephone, telegraph, water, sewer system, and heat corporation and every other public utility providing service directly to customers or subscribers and subject to the jurisdiction of the comm…

The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 431 with the approval of the Department of Finance and in accordance with all of the following: (a) In its annual budget request, the commission shall specify both of the following: (1) The amount of its budget to be fina…

Except as provided in Section 404, every public utility subject to Section 431 shall make payment of the required fee in accordance with the following schedule: (a) Every public utility with annual gross intrastate revenues of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) or le…

(a) The commission may require every public utility subject to this article to furnish information and reports to the commission, at the time or times it specifies, to enable it to make the allocations pursuant to Section 432. (b) Any public utility required to submit information…

As used in this article: (a) “Class” means a group of public utilities as specified by the commission for purposes of establishing fees pursuant to this article. The commission shall create separate classes for the following: electrical corporations, gas corporations, heat corpor…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transportation customer who receives transportation service on a natural gas or electric transmission or distribution system, or both, subject to a franchise agreement executed pursuant to this division from an energy transporter …

For purpose of calculating the surcharge required in Section 6352, the energy transporter shall do all of the following: (a) For each transportation customer, determine the volume of transported gas or electricity, in therms or kilowatt hours respectively, subject to the surcharg…

(a) For purposes of this article, “state franchise,” “video service,” and “video service provider” shall have the same meaning as those terms are defined in Section 5830. (b) The Public Utilities Commission Video Franchising Account is hereby created in the Public Utilities Commi…

The commission shall annually determine a fee to be paid by an applicant or holder of a state franchise pursuant to Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 5800). The annual fee shall be established to produce a total amount equal to that amount established in the authorized commis…

(a) The commission shall establish the fee pursuant to Section 441 with the approval of the Department of Finance. The commission shall specify the amount of its budget to be financed by the fee in its annual budget request. (b) The fee shall be determined and imposed by the comm…

(a) The commission may require a video service provider subject to this article to furnish information and reports to the commission, at the time or times it specifies, to enable it to determine the fee pursuant to Section 441. (b) Any video service provider required to submit in…

(a) If a video service provider subject to this article is in default of the payment of any fee required by this article for a period of 30 days or more, the commission may suspend or revoke the state franchise of the video service provider or order the video service provider to …

(a) Surcharges calculated pursuant to Section 6353 shall be recovered from the transportation customer through the energy transporter’s normal billing process. (b) Surcharges collected from the transportation customer shall be remitted to the municipality granting a franchise pur…

As an alternative to the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 6354, an energy transporter may elect to state on each customer’s bill, including both transportation customers and customers receiving bundled services, the amount of that bill which is attributable to local fra…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Public Water System Investment and Consolidation Act of 1997. (Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 675, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1998.)

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Public water systems are faced with the need to replace or upgrade the public water system infrastructure to meet increasingly stringent state and federal safe drinking water laws and regulations governing fire flow sta…

(a) The commission shall use the standard of fair market value when establishing the rate base value for the distribution system of a public water system acquired by a water corporation. This standard shall be used for ratesetting. (1) For purposes of this section, “public water …