Title PUC, California Pub. Util. Code

(a) Each electrical corporation, as part of its distribution planning process, shall consider the fleet data produced by the Energy Commission pursuant to Section 25328 of the Public Resources Code, and other available data, to facilitate the readiness of their distribution syste…

(a) For purposes of this section, “utility” means an electrical corporation or a gas corporation. (b) As a part of its general rate case, a utility shall report to the commission all of the following: (1) For any work category, the amount authorized for the test year in the last …

(a) The commission, in cooperation with the Energy Commission, the State Air Resources Board, air quality management districts and air pollution control districts, regulated electrical and gas corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, shall evaluate and implement policies to …

(a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to engage in programs to encourage economic development. (b) Reasonable expenses for economic development programs, as specified in this section, shall be allowed, to the extent of ratepayer benefit, when setting rates to be cha…

(a) For purposes of this section, “21st Century Energy System Decision” means commission Decision 12-12-031 (December 20, 2012), Decision Granting Authority to Enter Into a Research and Development Agreement with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 21st Century Energy Syst…

(a) The commission may authorize investor-owned gas and electric utilities to match grants provided to nonprofit agencies and local governments to participate in the Department of Economic Opportunity’s pilot program to identify and counsel low-income individuals and group facili…

Interruptible service or curtailment programs adopted by the commission shall assure that the programs allow customers to aggregate multiple accounts to meet any minimum kilowatt requirements for participation in the program, subject to geographical, load, and other parameters, a…

As used in Section 740.3 or 740.12, “interests” of ratepayers, short- or long-term, mean direct benefits that are specific to ratepayers, consistent with both of the following: (a) Safer, more reliable, or less costly gas or electrical service, consistent with Section 451, includ…

(a) Any optional binding mandatory curtailment program adopted by the commission that exempts customers from Stage 3 rotating outages in exchange for partial load curtailments during every rotating outage period shall provide, for agricultural and water supplier customers, the us…

(a) Every owner or operator of telephones available for public use, other than a telephone corporation, that accept any form of payment which, as part of the service furnished, provides operator-assisted services by other than a telephone corporation having tariff schedules on fi…

Every nonpublic utility provider of telephone services, including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, or university, which imposes charges on users of the services and which, as part of the service furnished, provides operator-assisted services by other than a telephon…

(a) No nonpublic utility provider of telephone services, including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, university, or similar place of temporary accommodation owning or operating message switching or billing equipment solely for the purpose of reselling services provid…

The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements applicable to operator-assisted telephone services, whether furnished by a telephone corporation or other than a telephone corporation, for nonpublic utility providers of telephone services, includin…

(a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for telephones available for public use that accept any form of payment and that are owned or operated by corporations or persons other than telephone corporations. These requirements shall inclu…

(a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for every corporation or person, other than a telephone corporation, which, as part of the services furnished, furnishes operator-assisted services by other than a telephone corporation having ta…

The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce an operating requirement for coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones available for public use, whether owned by telephone corporations or persons other than telephone corporations, which requires that every tel…

(a) No telephone corporation which operates within a service area shall provide billing and collection services for either of the following: (1) Any telephone corporation which has not obtained a certificate of public convenience and necessity but is required to do so. (2) Any pe…

(a) As used in this section, “steel producer” means a producer of steel products in California which in 1981 or any subsequent year produced at least 75,000 tons of rolled or finished steel and which has a maximum demand for electricity of 4,000 kilowatts or more at one plant loc…

(a) Beginning January 15, 2002, and at least once monthly thereafter, an electrical corporation shall notify each air pollution control district and air quality management district of the name and address of each entity within the district’s boundaries within the electrical corpo…

(a) As used in this section, “agricultural producer” means any person or corporation whose principal purpose is the agrarian production of food or fiber. (b) Every electrical corporation furnishing electricity to an agricultural producer shall, in addition to its regular service,…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Public Utilities Commission shall, as soon as is practicable after the operative date of the act adding this section, require every electrical corporation which furnishes electricity to an agricultural producer to provide, in ac…

(a) For purposes of this section, “time-variant pricing” includes time-of-use rates, critical peak pricing, and real-time pricing, but does not include programs that provide customers with discounts from standard tariff rates as an incentive to reduce consumption at certain times…

The commission shall determine the appropriate ratemaking treatment for incentive compensation paid to officers or employees of an electrical corporation or gas corporation for incentive compensation that is linked to the stock price or financial performance of the electrical cor…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission reduce rates for electricity and natural gas to the lowest amount possible. (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 612, Sec. 18. (SB 697) Effective January 1, 2016.)

Except for Golden State Energy, an electrical corporation or gas corporation shall not recover, through a rate approved by the commission, a fine or penalty. (Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 27, Sec. 7. (SB 350) Effective January 1, 2021.)

(a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), an electrical corporation or gas corporation shall not recover, through a rate approved by the commission, costs arising directly from new or additional activities expressly agreed to by the corporation, or any direct payment, fine, or …

(a) For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions apply: (1) “Above-the-line account” means an account that contains expenses that a utility recovers from ratepayers, including an account that contains expenses that the utility used to calculate a revenue require…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (c), (d), and (e), the commission shall require revenues, including any accrued interest, received by an electrical corporation as a result of the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to electric utilities pursuant to subdivisi…

(a) A local publicly owned electric utility that receives an allowance allocation in addition to the allowance totals specified in Section 95892 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 38562 of …

Beginning with the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2019, and ending with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, the commission shall annually allocate fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) of the revenues, including any accrued interest, received by a gas corporation as a result of t…

Public utilities shall develop programs in cooperation with local school districts in reducing their electricity and gas bills through conservation and improvements in efficiency. Utilities may offer to school districts on a priority basis, and school districts may utilize, any p…

(a) For the purposes of this section, “public school” means a public school, including a charter school, maintaining a kindergarten, or any of the grades 1 to 12, inclusive. (b) The commission shall, as part of its ratesetting process, direct each electrical and gas corporation t…

The commission shall develop formal procedures to consider safety in a rate case application by an electrical corporation or gas corporation. The procedures shall include a means by which safety information acquired by the commission through monitoring, data tracking and analysis…

(a) This section applies only to those public utilities over which the commission exercises its authority to fix rates and only to the extent the revenue requirements of the utility were based upon the tax rates in effect at the time rates were fixed for the utility by the commis…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that: (1) An electrical, gas, or water corporation that offers customers credit card or debit card payment options, may recover the reasonable expenses incurred by the electrical, gas, or water corporation for providing the customers the op…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 755, the commission shall allow a water corporation with 10,000 or more service connections to recover the reasonable expenses incurred by the water corporation in providing to its customers bill payment options, including credit card, debit card, and …

(a) The commission shall allow an electrical corporation to recover in rates amounts assessed to the utility pursuant to Section 8610.5 of the Government Code. (b) The commission shall ensure that any moneys refunded to an electrical corporation from the Nuclear Planning Assessme…

The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Public transportation is an essential component of the balanced transportation system which must be maintained and developed so as to permit the efficient and orderly movement of people and goods in the urban areas of the state. …

It is the intent of the Legislature to improve existing public transportation services and encourage regional public transportation coordination. The Legislature recognizes that in the Southern California Rapid Transit District a unique factual situation exists where several muni…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) It is in the interest of the state that funds available for transit development be fully expended to meet the transit needs that exist in California. (b) Such funds be expended for physical improvement to improve the movement of…

The board of directors shall establish at least one advisory committee. (Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 254, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1995.)

The advisory committees shall provide advice to the board of directors on matters of VTA policy and shall have additional duties as provided by the board of directors. (Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 381, Sec. 28. (AB 2196) Effective January 1, 2017.)

Immediately following the appointment and qualification of the first board of directors, and thereafter at the first meeting of the board following the first Monday after the first day of January of each year, the board shall elect a chairman and a vice chairman. (Added by Stats.…

The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the board. He shall perform such other functions as delegated to him under this part or under any regulation prescribed by the board. The chairman may move or second any motion, and shall vote upon all orders, resolutions, or ordinanc…

In the absence of the chairman at any meeting, the vice chairman shall preside. In the event of the inability of the chairman to perform the functions of his office, such functions shall be performed by the vice chairman with the same force and effect as the performance of such f…

A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The adoption of any minute order, resolution, or ordinance shall require the affirmative votes of at least three members of the board. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1161.)