Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

The delivery of water pursuant to Section 2727 is subject to the following restrictions: (a) Until a mutual water company fills the water orders of its stockholders or members pursuant to its constitution, bylaws, or rules, it shall not deliver water to others. (b) The temporary …

A mutual water company may exercise the power of eminent domain for water, water rights, canals, ditches, dams, poundings, flumes, aqueducts, and pipes for irrigation of lands furnished with water by such company. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1240.)

(a) The fund shall be established as a revolving liquidity fund that will pay eligible claims as provided in subdivision (c) and obtain reimbursement from electrical corporations as set forth in subdivision (d). (b) Except as provided in subdivision (e), to participate in the fun…

(a) If, no later than July 27, 2019, each large electrical corporation not subject to an insolvency proceeding on July 12, 2019, notifies the commission of its commitment to provide the initial contribution and the annual contributions, and subsequently provides its initial contr…

A participating electrical corporation shall maintain reasonable insurance coverage. The administrator shall periodically review and make a recommendation as to the appropriate amount of insurance coverage required, taking into account the availability of insurance, the electrica…

Costs and expenses of administration of the fund shall be paid from Wildfire Fund assets. (Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 79, Sec. 16. (AB 1054) Effective July 12, 2019.)

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), within six months after the commission adopts a decision in an application filed pursuant to Section 1701.8, a governmental assessment shall be imposed in the full amount of, and the electrical corporation shall reimburse the fund for th…

In addition to any rights and remedies of the administrator provided by law, the administrator is authorized at any time and from time to time, without notice to the participating electrical corporations, to set off and apply any and all funds, deposits, or contributions from a p…

Fund earnings are tax exempt and fund contributions by electrical corporations are tax deductible for state tax purposes. (Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 396, Sec. 48. (AB 1513) Effective January 1, 2020.)

(a) As part of the ballot proposition to approve the imposition of a retail transactions and use tax, authorization may be sought to issue bonds to finance capital outlay expenditures as may be provided for in the adopted county transportation expenditure plan, payable from the p…

(a) The bonds authorized by the voters concurrently with the approval of the retail transactions and use tax may be issued at any time by the district and shall be payable from the proceeds of the tax. The bonds shall be referred to as “limited tax bonds.” The bonds may be secure…

Limited tax bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted at any time by a two-thirds vote of the district. Each resolution shall provide for the issuance of bonds in the amounts as may be necessary, until the full amount of bonds authorized have been issued. The full am…

(a) A resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall state all of the following: (1) The purposes for which the proposed debt is to be incurred, which may include all costs and estimated costs incidental to, or connected with, the accomplishment of those purposes, including, …

The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum allowable by law, payable at intervals determined by the commission. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 457, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1997.)

In the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the district may also provide for the call and redemption of the bonds prior to maturity at the times and prices and upon other terms as specified. However, no bond is subject to call or redemption prior to maturity, unless…

The principal of, and interest on, the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of the district, or at other places as may be designated, or at both the office and other places at the option of the holders of the bonds. (Added by …

The bonds, or each series thereof, shall be dated and numbered consecutively and shall be signed by the chairperson or vice chairperson of the district and the auditor-controller of the district, and the official seal, if any, of the district shall be attached. The interest coupo…

The bonds may be sold as the district determines by resolution, and the bonds may be sold at a price below par, whether by negotiated or public sale. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 457, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1997.)

Delivery of any bonds may be made at any place either inside or outside the state, and the purchase price may be received in cash or bank credits. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 457, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1997.)

All accrued interest and premiums received on the sale of the bonds shall be placed in the fund to be used for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the bonds, and the remainder of the proceeds of the bonds shall be placed in the treasury of the district and applied t…

(a) The district may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the district upon the terms, at the times and in the manner which it determines. (b) Refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to pay a…

(a) The district may borrow money in anticipation of the sale of bonds which have been authorized pursuant to this chapter, but which have not been sold or delivered, and may issue negotiable bond anticipation notes therefor and may renew the bond anticipation notes from time to …

Any bonds issued under this chapter are legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, commercial and savings banks, and trust companies; and for state school funds; and whenever any money or funds may, by any law now or hereafter enacted, be invested…

Any action or proceedings wherein the validity of the adoption of the retail transactions and use tax ordinance provided for in this chapter or the issuance of any bonds thereunder or any of the proceedings in relation thereto is contested, questioned, or denied, shall be commenc…

The governing or legislative body of any city or city and county having on July 27, 1917, a freeholders’ charter adopted under Section 8 of Article XI of the State Constitution, which charter provides for the resettlement of and the granting of a resettlement franchise to any per…

The resettlement franchise shall be granted after such publication and upon such notice as the governing or legislative body shall by resolution determine, or failing such determination, after such publication and upon such notice as is prescribed by law for the enactment of ordi…

After the final passage of a resettlement franchise, it shall be referred and submitted to the vote of the electors of the city or city and county at the general or special election next ensuing not less than 20 days after the final passage of the ordinance, or if no general or s…

No resettlement franchise shall go into effect until it has received the approval of a majority of the electors voting thereon and until it has been accepted in writing by the grantee. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

Every resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege shall confer upon the grantee the right to occupy the roads, streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, lanes, alleys, courts, places, and pathways of the city or city and county, particularly set out in the terms and conditions of …

The grantee shall pay to the city or city and county such a percentage of the net revenue annually collected from any and all sources under and by virtue of the franchise, permit, or privilege as is fixed in the franchise. What constitutes such annual net revenue shall be provide…

The legislative or governing body may in a resettlement franchise provide that any new franchise granted to the holder of the resettlement franchise shall be considered as part of the resettlement franchise. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

The legislative or governing body may in the resettlement franchise provide that in case of consolidation or annexation to the city or city and county of any territory after the date the resettlement franchise is granted, any franchise to operate the street, suburban, or interurb…

Every resettlement franchise shall provide that the grantee shall surrender the franchises or rights, owned or claimed by the grantee, to occupy such portion of the roads, streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, lanes, alleys, courts, places, and pathways as it is proposed that t…

The resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege shall be granted for an indeterminate period, subject always to the right of the city or city and county to acquire and possess the property of the grantee. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

The resettlement franchise shall be granted upon the express condition that the city or city and county may, at a valuation for the purpose of public acquisition, fixed and determined as provided in Section 6462, assume ownership by purchase, or take over and possess the property…

The valuation for the purpose of public acquisition of property used and useful, or in the discretion of the city or city and county prospectively useful, and owned by the grantee at the time application is made for a resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege shall be fixed by…

All expenses of the valuation by the Public Utilities Commission shall be paid by the city or city and county to the commission. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

The resettlement franchise shall provide that the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall never claim before any court or other public authority in any proceeding of any character any value for the resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege in excess of the amount originally …

The resettlement franchise may be amended from time to time by ordinance passed by the governing or legislative body of the city or city and county and ratified by the electors of the city or city and county in the manner prescribed for the passage of the resettlement franchise i…

The power of the State, in the exercise of its police power or otherwise through the instrumentality of the Public Utilities Commission or other agency, to provide at any and all times for the supervision and regulation of public utilities is not affected by any franchise, permit…

Nothing in this chapter, nor any provision of any franchise granted under this chapter, shall prevent a city or city and county from acquiring at any time the property of any public utility through the exercise of the right of eminent domain, and no city or county shall contract …

Telegraph or telephone corporations may construct lines of telegraph or telephone lines along and upon any public road or highway, along or across any of the waters or lands within this State, and may erect poles, posts, piers, or abutments for supporting the insulators, wires, a…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature, consistent with Section 7901, that municipalities shall have the right to exercise reasonable control as to the time, place, and manner in which roads, highways, and waterways are accessed. (b) The control, to be reasonable, shall, at a mi…

Every agent, operator, or employee of any telegraph or telephone office, who in any way uses or appropriates any information derived by him from any private message passing through his hands, and addressed to any other person, or in any other manner acquired by him by reason of h…

Every agent, operator, or employee of any telegraph or telephone office, who wilfully refuses or neglects to send any message received at such office for transmission, or wilfully postpones the transmission of the message out of its order, or wilfully refuses or neglects to deliv…

The Public Utilities Commission shall issue regulations requiring every telephone corporation subject to its jurisdiction to maintain complete records of all instances in which its employees discover any device installed for the purpose of overhearing communications over the line…