CHAPTER 2. The Public Utilities Commission: Organization

Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.

§§ 301–327 · 48 sections

§ 301 The membership of the Public Utilities Commission, and the qualifications and tenure of the members of the commission are as provided in Section 1 of Article…
§ 302 Each commissioner shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office.
§ 303 (a) A public utilities commissioner may not hold an official relation to, nor have a financial interest in, a person or corporation subject to regulation by…
§ 304 The annual salary of each commissioner is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.…
§ 305 The Governor shall designate a president of the commission from among the members of the commission. The president shall direct the executive director, the…
§ 306 (a) The office of the commission shall be in the City and County of San Francisco. The office shall always be open, legal holidays and nonjudicial days…
§ 307 (a) The commission may appoint as attorney to the commission an attorney at law of this state, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the commission. (b)…
§ 307.2 There is within the legal division of the commission an ethics officer who shall be designated by the general counsel. The ethics officer shall be responsible…
§ 307.5 (a) The commission shall appoint a chief administrative law judge, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the commission. (b) The chief administrative law…
§ 307.6 (a) The commission shall appoint a chief internal auditor, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the commission. (b) The chief internal auditor shall be…
§ 308 (a) The commission shall appoint an executive director, who shall hold office during its pleasure. The executive director shall be responsible for the…
§ 308.5 Persons employed as investigators and investigator supervisors by the commission, who are designated by the commission’s executive director and approved by the…
§ 309 (a) The executive director may employ such officers, administrative law judges, experts, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks, and…
§ 309.1 The Governor may appoint one adviser for each member of the commission upon the request of the commission member. Each adviser shall receive a salary fixed by…
§ 309.5 (a) There is within the commission an independent Public Advocate’s Office of the Public Utilities Commission to represent and advocate on behalf of the…
§ 309.6 (a) The commission shall adopt procedures on the disqualification of commissioners and administrative law judges due to bias or prejudice similar to those of…
§ 309.7 (a) The division of the commission responsible for railroad safety shall be responsible for inspection, surveillance, and investigation of the rights-of-way,…
§ 310 No vacancy in the commission impairs the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the commission. A majority of the commissioners…
§ 311 (a) The commission, each commissioner, the executive director, and the assistant executive directors may administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and…
§ 311.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission shall not consider or require, in determining qualified bidders for, or in awarding contracts, that…
§ 311.2 The commission shall adopt procedures authorizing the submittal of electronic signatures and documents by all parties on contracts involving the commission.
§ 311.4 (a) On or after July 1, 2001, the commission shall establish procedures to permit the submission of informal complaints through electronic means in accordance…
§ 311.5 (a) (1) Prior to commencement of any meeting at which commissioners vote on items on the public agenda, the commission shall make available to the public…
§ 312 The commission and each commissioner may issue writs of summons, subpenas, warrants of attachment, warrants of commitment, and all necessary process in…
§ 313 The commission may require, by order served on any public utility, the production within this State at such time and place as it designates, of any books,…
§ 314 (a) The commission, each commissioner, and each officer and person employed by the commission may, at any time, inspect the accounts, books, papers, and…
§ 314.5 (a) (1) The commission shall apply a risk-based methodology to conduct audits or reviews of the books and records of electrical, gas, telephone, water, and…
§ 314.6 (a) The commission may conduct financial and performance reviews or audits of any entity or program created by any order, decision, motion, settlement, or…
§ 315 The commission shall investigate the cause of all accidents occurring within this State upon the property of any public utility or directly or indirectly…
§ 316 (a) Each electrical corporation shall cooperate fully with the commission in an investigation into any major accident or any reportable incident, as these…
§ 317 The commission may request the local agency formation commission to advise it as to any special districts as defined in Section 54775 of the Government Code…
§ 320 The Legislature hereby declares that it is the policy of this state to achieve, whenever feasible and not inconsistent with sound environmental planning, the…
§ 321 (a) The commission shall appoint a public advisor and establish an office of the public advisor, including a separate office in the Los Angeles office of the…
§ 321.1 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission assess the consequences of its decisions, including economic effects, and assess and mitigate the…
§ 321.6 The president of the commission shall annually appear before the appropriate policy committees of the Senate and Assembly to present the annual report of the…
§ 322 (a) The commission shall periodically, at least once each year, compile its rules of procedure together with every order and decision of the commission…
§ 322.5 The commission shall determine, as part of the proceeding in Rulemaking 98-07-038 (Rulemaking for purposes of Revising General Order 96-A Regarding Informal…
§ 323 (a) Commencing January 1, 1989, the commission shall cause the complete text of each of its orders and decisions to be published within a reasonable time, not…
§ 323.5 (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Demand-side energy management programs” mean all energy efficiency,…
§ 324 The executive director of the commission may release to the Director of Industrial Relations any information concerning any person, corporation, or other…
§ 324.5 (a) The Public Utilities Commission shall publish any data it collects for its clearinghouse minority and women business data base that it deems to be…
§ 324.7 No less frequently than once a year, the commission shall make the following information about each contract that the commission enters into available free of…
§ 324.8 The commission shall make available on its Internet Web site audits conducted by the Department of General Services of the commission’s contracting practices.
§ 325 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the commission should have the authority to act swiftly to expedite planning for the long-term recovery in…
§ 326 (a) By January 1, 2020, the commission shall establish the Wildfire Safety Division within the commission, located in Sacramento, California. The Wildfire…
§ 326.1 (a) There is hereby established the California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board. The board shall advise the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety established…
§ 326.2 The California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board shall do both of the following: (a) Review and provide comments and advisory opinions to local publicly owned…
§ 327 (a) The electrical corporations and gas corporations that participate in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program, as established pursuant to…