Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

Section 851 does not apply to any contract for sale or sale of an existing system, or any portion thereof, pursuant to this chapter, and the Public Utilities Commission has no jurisdiction with respect thereto. (Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 142, Sec. 139.)

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The explosive demand for new area codes in California requires more area codes to be established than was envisioned when this chapter and Section 2887 were enacted in 1990. (b) Because of the advent of competition in t…

(a) This chapter is applicable to telephone corporations, including resellers, and to paging companies, hereafter referred to as providers. (b) For purposes of this chapter, “coordinator” means the “coordinator for California area code relief” as designated by the North American …

(a) Whenever a provider opens a new area code, it shall do all of the following: (1) If the new area code plan permits seven-digit dialing, provide for a transitional dialing period during which a number in the new area code, or a number in the existing area code, may be reached …

The rate structure of any call originating in or made to an area code shall not change with the split of an area code into two or more area codes, regardless of the number of digits dialed. (Added by renumbering Section 7932 by Stats. 1998, Ch. 534, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The number of area codes in this state has more than doubled since 1991. (b) The proliferation of area codes has caused undue hardship on citizens of this state, who have begun to be forced into new area codes after yea…

(a) The commission shall develop and implement any measures it determines to be available for telephone corporations that possess prefixes to efficiently allocate telephone numbers within those prefixes. The commission shall consider the cost effectiveness of these measures befor…

The commission shall direct the North American Numbering Plan Administrator to obtain utilization data for any area code for which a relief plan is proposed, prior to adopting a plan for, or setting a date for, relief. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 809, Sec. 4. Effective October 10,…

The commission shall require, as an interim measure until the commission develops procedures for number pooling or adopts utilization standards, that number assignments made by telephone corporations to their customers shall be made first from prefixes that are more than 25 perce…

(a) If the commission or an authorized federal agency establishes a process to ensure that telephone numbers can be allocated in blocks smaller than 10,000, the commission shall require that a telephone corporation return to the North American Numbering Plan Administrator blocks …

A telephone corporation doing business in this state that possesses one or more telephone number prefixes, or portions thereof, shall provide to the commission or its agent, upon request, use information pertaining to both those prefixes in use and those prefixes not in use, acco…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that when the commission has no reasonable alternative other than to create a new area code, that the commission do so in a way that creates the least inconvenience for customers. (b) The commission shall request that the Federal Communicat…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Load-serving entity” has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 8340. (2) “Long-term financial commitment” has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 8340. (3) “New e…