ARTICLE 1. Rates

Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.

§§ 451–468 · 51 sections

§ 451 All charges demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or…
§ 451.1 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Covered wildfire” has the same meaning as defined in Section 1701.8.…
§ 451.2 (a) In an application by an electrical corporation to recover costs and expenses arising from, or incurred as a result of, a catastrophic wildfire with an…
§ 451.3 If the commission finds that an electrical corporation is requesting recovery of costs that were previously authorized by the commission for cost recovery by…
§ 451.5 (a) Any expense resulting from a bonus paid to an executive officer of a public utility that has ceased to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business…
§ 451.7 (a) Nonbypassable or departing load surcharges, as defined by the commission, shall not apply to a reduction in kilowatthours of electricity that an electrical…
§ 451.8 (a) Following the approval of each general rate case, the commission shall review which costs, if any, differed from the general rate case forecasts for each…
§ 451.9 (a) Notwithstanding Section 451, a gas corporation may cease providing service in an area within its service territory where a pilot project has been…
§ 452 Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from establishing and charging a lower than a maximum reasonable rate for the…
§ 453 (a) No public utility shall, as to rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any corporation…
§ 453.5 Whenever the commission orders rate refunds to be distributed, the commission shall require public utilities to pay refunds to all current utility customers,…
§ 454 (a) Except as provided in Section 455, a public utility shall not change any rate or so alter any classification, contract, practice, or rule as to result in…
§ 454.1 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if a customer with a maximum peak electrical demand in excess of 20 kilowatts located or planning to locate within…
§ 454.2 Notwithstanding Section 454, the commission may establish a “zone of rate freedom” for any passenger stage transportation service which is operating in…
§ 454.3 The commission may, after a hearing, approve an increase of from one-half of 1 percent to 1 percent in the rate of return otherwise allowed an electrical…
§ 454.4 The commission shall establish rates for gas which is utilized in cogeneration technology projects not higher than the rates established for gas utilized as a…
§ 454.5 (a) The commission shall specify the allocation of electricity, including quantity, characteristics, and duration of electricity delivery, that the Department…
§ 454.51 The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Identify a diverse and balanced portfolio of resources needed to ensure a reliable electricity supply that…
§ 454.52 (a) (1) Beginning in 2017, and to be updated regularly thereafter, the commission shall adopt a process for each load-serving entity to file an integrated…
§ 454.53 (a) It is the policy of the state that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 90 percent of all retail sales of electricity to…
§ 454.54 In addition to the requirements of Section 454.52, the integrated resource plan of each load-serving entity shall contribute to a diverse and balanced…
§ 454.55 (a) (1) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and…
§ 454.56 (a) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and…
§ 454.57 (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Accelerating Renewable Energy Delivery Act. (b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the…
§ 454.58 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) California must dramatically increase the capacity of its electrical transmission and…
§ 454.59 (a) This section applies to the obligations on a state agency, except the State Water Resources Development System commonly known as the State Water Project,…
§ 454.6 (a) A contract entered into pursuant to Section 454.5 by an electrical corporation for the electricity generated by a replacement or repowering project that…
§ 454.7 The commission shall, to the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with Section 2771, provide cogeneration technology projects with the highest…
§ 454.8 In any decision establishing rates for an electrical or gas corporation reflecting the reasonable and prudent costs of the new construction of any addition to…
§ 454.9 (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to establish catastrophic event memorandum accounts and to record in those accounts the costs of the…
§ 455 Whenever any schedule stating an individual or joint rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule, not increasing or resulting in an increase in any rate,…
§ 455.1 Whenever a water corporation files with the commission, pursuant to an advice letter submitted in accordance with commission procedures for this means of…
§ 455.2 (a) The commission shall issue its final decision on a general rate case application of a water corporation with greater than 10,000 service connections in a…
§ 455.3 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to Section 454, no later than January 1, 1998, the commission shall adopt rules and…
§ 455.5 (a) In establishing rates for any electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation, the commission may eliminate consideration of the value of any portion of any…
§ 455.7 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Large electrical corporation” has the same meaning as defined in Section 3280. (2)…
§ 456 Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any public utility from profiting, to the extent permitted by the commission, from any economies,…
§ 458 (a) No common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall, by means of known false billing, classification,…
§ 459 (a) No person or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, by any false statement or…
§ 460.3 (a) The commission shall prohibit any passenger stage corporation from charging any fare to, or imposing any other charge on, any physically disabled or…
§ 460.7 (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every passenger stage corporation shall file with the commission one of the following: (1) A certificate…
§ 461.2 For purposes of establishing rates for a telephone or telegraph corporation, the commission shall include all revenues and expenses of the corporation from the…
§ 461.5 (a) (1) No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons,…
§ 462 Every street or interurban railroad corporation shall upon such terms as the commission finds to be just and reasonable furnish to its passengers transfers…
§ 463 (a) For purposes of establishing rates for any electrical or gas corporation, the commission shall disallow expenses reflecting the direct or indirect costs…
§ 463.5 (a) Section 463 does not require the commission to undertake a reasonableness review of recorded costs to determine the reasonableness of the costs of each…
§ 464 (a) Reasonable expenditures by transmission owners that are electrical corporations to plan, design, and engineer reconfiguration, replacement, or expansion of…
§ 465 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), whenever any labor of a custodial or janitorial nature is not performed by the employees of a public utility, such…
§ 466 Pursuant to Section 465, the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and any subcontractor under him shall pay not less than the specified prevailing wage…
§ 467 The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations shall enforce Section 466 in the same manner as provided for by Chapter 4…
§ 468 (a) For purposes of this section, “expense incurred by a public utility in assisting or deterring union organizing” means costs incurred in communicating with…