Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission shall adopt an updated transit coordination and service program not later than January 10, 1983, and biennially thereafter, and may amend the program at such time as it deems appropriate, in order to meet changing conditions in pro…

(a) The updated transit coordination and service program, and any amendment to the program, shall be adopted by the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission by eight affirmative votes of the voting members or designated alternates. (b) The proposed updated program or the prop…

(a) Any transit operator in the County of Los Angeles which disagrees with any portion of the transit coordination and service program, or any amendment thereto, that impacts its transit services may request the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission to, and the commission …

A district may levy and collect, or cause to be levied and collected, taxes for the purpose of carrying on its operations and paying its obligations. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 72.)

A district may impose a special tax pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code. The special taxes shall be applied uniformly to all taxpayers or all real property within the district, except that …

Farm products and crops which are stored within the exterior boundaries of the district are not subject to taxation by the district. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 72.)

The board shall annually levy and collect a tax sufficient (a) to pay the annual interest on bonds, (b) to pay such part of the principal as will fall due within the succeeding year, and (c) to provide for the sinking fund payments of the next succeeding fiscal year. When the int…

If from any cause the revenues of a district are inadequate to pay the principal or interest on any bonded debt as it becomes due, the board shall, or if funds are needed to carry out the objects and purposes of the district which cannot be provided out of the revenues of the dis…

The board shall state the purposes for which taxes are necessary, and shall fix by ordinance the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 72.)

By ordinance, the provisions of which conform to general law, the board may provide the manner of assessing and of correcting and equalizing assessments upon the taxable property situated within the district. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 72.)

The board may provide for the collection of delinquent taxes, penalties, interest, and costs by actions or legal proceedings brought, prosecuted, and maintained in the name of the district against the several owners of property from whom taxes are due and delinquent. (Added by St…

The board may elect to avail itself of the assessments made by the assessors of the counties in which the district is situated, and may take such assessments as the basis for district taxation. It shall declare its election by ordinance and file a certified copy of the ordinance …

An election pursuant to Section 16648 is effective with respect to all taxes levied and assessed after February 1 next succeeding the date upon which the certified copy is filed. Thereafter all assessments shall be made and taxes collected by the assessors or tax collectors of th…

Upon receipt of the certified copy filed pursuant to Section 16648 the county auditors shall, on or before the second Monday in August of each year, transmit to the board a statement in writing showing the total value of all property within the district, ascertained from the asse…

If the board elects to avail itself of county assessments, it shall, before September 1st, fix the rate of taxes, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred dollars ($100), using as a basis the value of property as ascertained from the equalized assessment rolls of the…

Immediately after fixing the rate of taxes the board shall transmit to the county auditors of the counties in which the district is situated a statement of the rate so fixed by it. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 72.)

The county auditors shall compute and enter in the assessment rolls, the district tax on the property enumerated and assessed as being in the district, using the rate of levy fixed by the board, and the assessed value as found in the assessment rolls. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch.…

Taxes levied pursuant to Sections 16648 to 16653, inclusive, shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. When collected, the net amount, as provided in this article, shall be paid to the treasurer of the district, under the general requirements and…

Each county auditor and tax collector shall annually file with the board of supervisors of his county itemized statements showing the additional expense to his office caused by performance of the duties imposed upon him by this article. Upon the filing of such statements the boar…

The boards of supervisors may provide extra help for their county offices or officers as in their judgment is necessary for the proper performance of their duties under this article. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 72.)

Whenever any real property situate in any district which has availed itself of county assessments has been sold for taxes and has been redeemed, the money paid for redemption shall be apportioned and paid by the county treasurer receiving it to the district, in the proportion whi…

District taxes are a lien on the property on which they are levied, except that if, during the year preceding the date on which the first installment of real property taxes which evidence the charges appears on the roll, any real property to which such lien would attach has been …

Where a district has not availed itself of county assessments, delinquent property sold by the tax collector of the district for delinquent taxes shall be struck off by him to the district and shall thereafter be redeemed or disposed of as is provided by law in the case of delinq…

Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, in the case of a sale of property for taxes or assessments, except where the sale is conducted and the funds are accounted for as provided in Division 1 (commencing with Section 101) of the Revenue and Taxation Code, …

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act. (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 163, Sec. 2. Effective July 16, 1987.)

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The offering of high-quality basic telephone service at affordable rates to the greatest number of citizens has been a longstanding goal of the state. (b) The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act has been, and continue…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act, enacted in 1987, was intended to offer high quality basic telephone service at affordable rates to the greatest number of California residents, and has become an important mean…

(a) The commission shall annually do all of the following: (1) Designate a class of lifeline service necessary to meet minimum communications needs. (2) Set the rates and charges for that service. (3) Develop eligibility criteria for that service. (4) Assess the degree of achieve…

The lifeline telephone service rates and charges shall be as follows: (a) In a residential subscriber’s service area where measured service is not available, the lifeline telephone service rates shall not be more than 50 percent of the rates for basic flat rate service, exclusive…

(a) In addition to Section 874, every lifeline telephone service subscriber shall be given an allowance, reduced by the amount of any credit or allowance authorized by the Federal Communications Commission, equal to the then current or announced federally mandated residential end…

The commission shall require every telephone corporation providing telephone service within a service area to file a schedule of rates and charges providing a class of lifeline telephone service. Every telephone corporation providing service within a service area shall inform all…

(a) The commission, its staff, the lifeline program’s third-party administrator, and lifeline service providers, and their contractors, agents, successors, or assignees, shall not share, disclose, or otherwise make accessible any information provided by an applicant or subscriber…

Nothing in this article precludes the commission from changing any rate established pursuant to Section 873, either specifically or pursuant to any general restructuring of all telephone rates, charges, and classifications. (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 163, Sec. 2. Effective July 1…

(a) A lifeline telephone service subscriber shall be provided with one lifeline subscription, as defined by the commission, at the subscriber’s principal place of residence, and no other member of that subscriber’s family or household who maintains residence at that place is elig…

The commission shall adopt a portability freeze rule for the lifeline program by January 15, 2017. The commission shall consider including all of the following in the rule: (a) A 60-day duration of the portability freeze. (b) A period of time when a subscriber would be able to te…

(a) (1) Before March 1, 2022, the commission shall, as part of an existing proceeding, adopt updated rules for the lifeline program establishing a modified recertification process that minimizes barriers to lifeline subscriber recertification and reduces the burden and cost of re…

(a) The commission shall, at least annually, initiate a proceeding to set rates for lifeline telephone service. All telephone corporations providing lifeline telephone service shall annually file, on a date set by the commission, proposed lifeline telephone service rates and a st…

Notwithstanding Section 879, the commission shall issue its initial order adopting required rates and funding requirements not later than October 31, 1987, and prior to the issuance of that order, may fund lifeline telephone service through the use of an interim surcharge on serv…

The commission may determine any question of fact in its administration of this article. (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 163, Sec. 2. Effective July 16, 1987.)

(a) The Public Utilities Commission shall, as soon as practicable, open a proceeding or proceedings to, or as part of existing proceedings shall, consider ways to ensure that advanced telecommunications services are made available as ubiquitously and economically as possible, in …

(a) The commission shall, on or before February 1, 2001, issue an order initiating an investigation and opening a proceeding to examine the current and future definitions of universal service. That proceeding shall include public hearings that encourage participation by a broad a…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that any program administered by the commission that addresses the inequality of access to high-speed broadband services by providing those services to schools and libraries at a discounted price, provide comparable discounts to a nonprofit…

The commission may require each internet service provider, as defined in Section 3100 of the Civil Code, to report the following information regarding each free, low-cost, income-qualified, or affordable internet service plan advertised by the provider: (a) The cost of the plan, …

(a) This section shall apply to all customers eligible to receive discounts for telecommunications services under the federal Universal Service E-rate program administered by the Schools and Libraries Division of the Universal Service Administrative Company that also apply for di…

Claims may be filed under this article with the transportation planning agency by counties and cities for the following purposes and by transit districts for the purposes specified in subdivisions (c) to (f), inclusive: (a) Local streets and roads, and projects which are provided…

Notwithstanding Section 99232, a county or a city in a county in which there is no countywide transit district may file a claim under this article with the transportation planning agency to finance the construction and maintenance of multimodal transportation terminals. The termi…