ARTICLE 1. Generally

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

§§ 701–719 · 30 sections

§ 701 The commission may supervise and regulate every public utility in the State and may do all things, whether specifically designated in this part or in addition…
§ 701.1 (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that, in addition to other ratepayer protection objectives, a principal goal of electric and natural gas utilities’…
§ 701.3 Until the commission completes an electric generation procurement methodology that values the environmental and diversity costs and benefits associated with…
§ 701.4 It is the policy of the state and the intent of the Legislature that state and municipal electric resource acquisition programs recognize and include a value…
§ 701.5 With respect to financing arrangements which are established after January 1, 1988, no electrical, gas, or telephone corporation, whose rates are set by the…
§ 701.6 (a) The commission may authorize gas and electrical corporations to include in ratepayer-supported research and development programs, activities that relate to…
§ 701.8 (a) To ensure that electrical corporations do not operate their transmission and distribution monopolies in a manner that impedes the ability of the San…
§ 701.10 The policy of the State of California is that rates and charges established by the commission for water service provided by water corporations shall do all of…
§ 702 Every public utility shall obey and comply with every order, decision, direction, or rule made or prescribed by the commission in the matters specified in this…
§ 703 The commission may investigate all existing or proposed interstate rates, fares, tolls, charges, and classifications, and all rules and practices in relation…
§ 704 Except as otherwise provided in this section, no foreign corporation, other than those which by compliance with the laws of this State are entitled to transact…
§ 705 Whenever in Articles 2 (commencing with Section 726), 3 (commencing with Section 761), and 4 (commencing with Section 791) a hearing by the commission is…
§ 706 (a) For purposes of this section, “compensation” means any annual salary, bonus, benefits, or other consideration of any value, paid to an officer of an…
§ 707 (a) Not later than March 1, 2012, the commission shall institute a rulemaking proceeding for the purpose of considering and adopting a code of conduct,…
§ 708 The commission shall require every electrical, gas, and telephone corporation to prepare and issue to every employee who, in the course of his or her…
§ 708.3 Whenever a business transaction of an electrical, gas, water corporation with 10,000 or more service connections, or telephone corporation is such that a…
§ 709 The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the policies for telecommunications in California are as follows: (a) To continue our universal service…
§ 709.2 (a) The commission shall authorize fully open competition for intrastate interexchange telecommunications service, otherwise known as intrastate interLATA, or…
§ 709.5 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all telecommunications markets subject to commission jurisdiction be opened to competition not later than January…
§ 709.6 Not later than January 1, 2000, the commission shall commence a proceeding to consider whether to establish a new regulatory framework that does all of the…
§ 712 (a) The commission shall convene, and continue until August 26, 2030, an independent peer review panel to conduct an independent review of enhanced seismic…
§ 712.1 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that in commission Decision 88-12-083 (December 19, 1988) Re Pacific Gas and Electric Company (30 CPUC.2d 189), the…
§ 712.5 (a) (1) The commission shall cause an assessment to be completed by no later than July 1, 2018, of the adverse and beneficial economic impacts, and the net…
§ 712.7 (a) The commission shall approve both of the following: (1) The full funding for the community impact mitigation settlement proposed in Application 16-08-006.…
§ 712.8 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Current expiration dates” has the same meaning as defined in Section 25548.1 of the…
§ 713 (a) (1) Golden State Energy may commence an eminent domain action to acquire all or substantially all of Pacific Gas and Electric Company only if the…
§ 716 (a) If an incumbent local exchange carrier files a forbearance petition with the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to Section 10 of the federal…
§ 717 (a) The commission shall require an electrical or gas corporation to do all of the following: (1) Develop a program no later than January 1, 2017, within the…
§ 718 (a) The commission shall develop policies, rules, or regulations with a goal of reducing, by January 1, 2024, the statewide level of gas and electric service…
§ 719 (a) For purposes of this section, terms used in this section shall have the same meaning as those terms are defined in Section 3280. (b) On or before April 1,…