Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

No person employed under civil service provisions of this division or of any rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto in a permanent position shall be removed, discharged, or suspended except for cause. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

Removal or discharge may be made for any of the following causes: incompetence, habitual intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, dishonesty, or inattention to public service. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

The department or division head may for disciplinary purposes suspend a subordinate for a period of not exceeding 15 days and suspension shall carry with it a loss of salary for the period of suspension. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

Within five days after the mailing of written notice of removal, discharge, or suspension, any employee may file a written request with the general manager for an opportunity to be heard in his own defense or, at the employee’s option, may utilize a grievance procedure if the dis…

When such request is made the general manager shall immediately appoint from officers or assistant officers of the district (other than elected officials), or heads of departments or divisions, a committee of three to hear and determine such charges and shall notify the person ac…

The committee shall examine into the case and make such decision as it deems just and may among other things order the employee discharged, suspended, or reinstated. Its order or decision shall be final unless the employee within 10 days after the date of the order requests the g…

Nothing in the civil service provisions of this division deprives any person of his rights and remedies in a court of competent jurisdiction. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

The district shall plan, construct, and operate (or let a contract to operate) public transit systems in conformance with, and to the extent provided for in, the San Diego Regional Transportation Consolidation Act (Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 132350) of Division 12.7). (Am…

As used in this article: (a) “Smart freeway corridor” means a segment of a state highway route in an urban area selected for a smart freeway demonstration project. (b) “Project” means a demonstration project which applies telecommunications and computer systems to reduce congesti…

A smart freeway demonstration project shall be comprised of the following elements: (a) A linked traffic monitoring network of traffic monitoring devices placed in freeway lanes, surface street travel lanes, turn lanes, and on ramps within the freeway corridor to continuously mon…

(a) The project shall be coordinated by the statutorily created county transportation commission in whose jurisdiction the project is located. The county transportation commission shall consult with local traffic and law enforcement agencies, the Department of Transportation, and…

(a) The Aeronautics Fund is hereby continued in existence as the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund. The moneys deposited to the credit of the account are continuously appropriated for expenditure by the board and the department as provided in this article. (b) …

As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Own and operate” means that the public entity shall own the property in fee simple or by a long-term lease of a minimum of 20 years, unless otherwise approved by the department, and shall maintain domi…

(a) The department shall establish individual revolving fund subaccounts for eligible airports in the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund. Money payable under this section shall be credited to individual airport subaccounts annually, and may be accumulated for a …

The department shall pay, from the Aeronautics Account to the Transportation Planning and Development Account in the State Transportation Fund, a sum equal to the pro rata share of the comprehensive transportation duties attributable to aviation planning and research, as determin…

Any public entity may apply to the department each year for the allocation of funds for the acquisition or development of airports. The commission may, pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the department, make an allocation to the public entity if it determines that t…

(a) At the discretion of the commission, any balance remaining in the Aeronautics Account, after the payments made under Section 21682, may be used to provide a portion of the local match for federal Airport Improvement Program grants. Matching shall be provided only for grants a…

Any balance remaining in the Aeronautics Account, after the payments made under Section 21682 and Section 21683.1, shall be used at the discretion of the commission for airport and aviation purposes subject to the provisions of Section 21684. (Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 671, Sec. …

(a) No payment shall be made to a public entity pursuant to this article unless the public entity has established a special aviation fund in which all payments received by a public entity under this article shall be deposited for expenditure solely for airport and aviation purpos…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 21683, any balance remaining in the fund after the payments made under Section 21682 may be used by the department to purchase emergency search and rescue equipment and to make such equipment available for use by recognized search and res…

Notwithstanding the provisions of this article inasmuch as they require matching funds the department may allocate funds to public agencies for the construction of airports. (Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1566.)

Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, inasmuch as they require matching funds, the department may allocate funds to a county or a city for the construction of recreational airports or reliever training airstrips in accordance with regulations of the department if the co…

Any public entity may pay any part of the money in its special aviation fund to a state college or branch of the University of California located within its boundaries to be expended for the same purposes as the public entity may expend such money. Any money paid to a state colle…

It shall be the duty of any public entity receiving payments or allocations under this article to periodically audit its books and records as deemed necessary by the department for the purpose of determining that the money received has been expended for the purposes and under the…

(a) (1) If an airport, for which payments have been made from the Aeronautics Account, ceases to be open to the general public for more than one year, the public entity to which those payments were made shall pay to the state funds equal to the amount computed by the department p…

(a) No payments shall be made from the Aeronautics Account for expenditure on any airport or for the acquisition or development of any airport, if the department determines that the height restrictions around the airport are inadequate to provide reasonable assurance that the lan…

The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage of its employees under Title 2 of the Federal Social Security Act, as amended, and the related provisions of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, as amended. (Added by Stats. 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 62…

The district shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain coverage for the district and its employees under the state laws relating to workers’ compensation and insurance, unemployment compensation, and disability compensation. (Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1454.)

Each public utility shall have an office in a county of this State in which its property or some portion thereof is located and shall keep in that office all the books, accounts, papers, and records required by the commission to be kept within this State. No such books, accounts,…

The commission may establish a system of accounts to be kept by the public utilities subject to its jurisdiction, or classify such public utilities and establish a system of accounts for each class, and may prescribe the manner in which such accounts shall be kept. It may also pr…

(a) Whenever the commission authorizes any change in rates reflecting and passing through to customers specific changes in costs, except rates set for common carriers, the commission shall require as a condition of the order that the public utility establish and maintain a balanc…

The system of accounts and the forms of accounts, records, and memoranda prescribed by the commission for corporations subject to the regulatory authority of the United States, shall not be inconsistent with the systems and forms from time to time established for such corporation…

The commission may, after notice, and hearing if requested within 15 days after receipt of notice, prescribe by order the accounts in which particular outlays and receipts shall be entered, charged, or credited. Where the commission has prescribed the forms of accounts, records, …

The commission may, after hearing if requested, require any or all public utilities to carry a proper and adequate depreciation account in the form and in accordance with such rules as the commission prescribes. The commission may, from time to time, ascertain and by order fix th…

(a) The commission shall disallow, for purposes of setting the rates to be charged by any electrical, gas, or heat corporation for the services or commodities furnished by it, all expenses for advertising which encourage increased consumption of such services or commodities. (b) …

The commission shall periodically audit, or direct that an independent audit be periodically conducted for, all significant transactions, as specified by the commission, between a water corporation with more than 2,000 service connections, or an electrical, gas, or telephone corp…

(a) Whenever the commission finds and determines that any water corporation with more than 2,000 service connections, or an electrical, gas, or telephone corporation, has willfully made an imprudent payment to, or received a less than reasonable payment from, any subsidiary or af…

(a) With respect to all taxes enacted by any local jurisdiction, including any city, county, or city and county, including a chartered city or county, any district, including an agency of the state, formed pursuant to general law or special act, for the local performance of gover…

Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by operators under this article for the following purposes: (a) The support of public transportation systems. (b) Aid to public transportation research and demonstration projects. (c) Contributions for the construction o…

(a) Claims may be filed with the transportation planning agency by operators to contract with common carriers of persons operating under a franchise or license to provide transportation services during peak hours. “Peak hours” means the period of time during a day which have a cl…

(a) Claims may also be filed with the transportation planning agency by a city and county or a transit district under this article for payments to be made to a railroad corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission and engaged in the transportation of…

Public agencies authorized to file claims pursuant to Section 99234.9 may file claims under this article. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 995, Sec. 7.)

In order to provide, or to contract to provide, transportation services using vehicles for the exclusive use of elderly or disabled persons, a city or a county, which is contributing funds it is eligible to receive under this article to a joint powers agency of which it is a memb…

The transportation planning agency may adopt rules and regulations supplemental to, and consistent with, those of the department to further delineate procedures for the submission of claims and stating criteria by which they will be analyzed and evaluated. The criteria may includ…

The San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board shall adopt rules and regulations for its area of jurisdiction. The transportation planning agency may include in its rules and regulations any rule and regulation of the transit development board. (Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 10…

Claims for public transportation systems may include claims for money for all purposes necessary and convenient to the development and operation of the system, including planning and contributions to the transportation planning process, acquisition of real property, construction …