ARTICLE 2. Rates

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

§§ 727–758 · 90 sections

§ 727 It is the policy of the state that the use of all waterways, ports, and harbors of this state shall be encouraged, and to that end the commission is directed…
§ 727.5 (a) In establishing rates for water service, the commission shall consider, and may establish, separate charges for costs associated with customer service,…
§ 728 Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that the rates or classifications, demanded, observed, charged, or collected by any public utility for or in…
§ 728.1 (a) For purposes of this section, “plant held for future use account” means account number 105 of the Uniform System of Accounts Prescribed for Public…
§ 728.2 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the commission shall have no jurisdiction or control over classified telephone directories or commercial advertising…
§ 728.3 (a) No telephone corporation operating within a service area shall remove any public telephone unless it has posted on the public telephone for not less than…
§ 728.4 A telephone corporation shall list a telephone number as the number for a facsimile machine in its alphabetical or classified directory only if requested to do…
§ 728.5 (a) The commission may establish rates or charges for the transportation of passengers and freight by railroads and other transportation companies, except…
§ 728.7 (a) Prior to authorizing any change in the amount of the payment required of a telephone corporation which provides service between service areas to a…
§ 729 The commission may, upon a hearing, investigate a single rate, classification, rule, contract, or practice, or any number thereof, or the entire schedule or…
§ 729.5 A public utility, other than one-way radio paging services, shall not change a group of customers from one rate schedule to another rate schedule, if the…
§ 730 (a) The commission shall, upon a hearing, determine the kind and character of facilities and the extent of the operation thereof, necessary reasonably and…
§ 730.3 The commission shall notify every state and local public agency and corporation operating a passenger transit system making a written request for such…
§ 730.7 In determining reimbursement to railroad corporations for the operation of rail passenger service, the commission shall not exceed that compensation which…
§ 730.8 Whenever a state agency files with the commission an application for an increase in rates or fares or for any change in the level of service for passenger…
§ 731 (a) (1) On or before June 30, 2024, the commission, in coordination and consultation with the Department of Community Services and Development and other…
§ 732 (a) Whenever the commission, after a hearing finds that the rates, fares, or charges in force over two or more common carriers, between any two points in this…
§ 733 (a) If the common carriers do not agree upon the division between them of the joint rates, fares, or charges established by the commission over through routes,…
§ 734 When complaint has been made to the commission concerning a rate for a product or commodity furnished or service performed by a public utility, and the…
§ 735 If the public utility does not comply with the order for the payment of reparation within the time specified in the order, suit may be instituted in any court…
§ 736 All complaints for damages resulting from the violation of any of the provisions of Sections 494 or 532 shall either be filed with the commission, or, where…
§ 737 All complaints for the collection of the lawful tariff charges or any part thereof, of public utilities may be filed in any court of competent jurisdiction…
§ 737.3 (a) (1) A highway carrier, as defined by subdivision (c), a freight forwarder, a party representing a carrier or freight forwarder, or an assignee of a carrier…
§ 738 For the purpose of Sections 734 to 737, inclusive, the cause of action shall accrue upon the delivery or tender of delivery of the shipment or the performance…
§ 738.6 In establishing rates for a public utility operating any portion of its line, plant, or system within a federally designated nonattainment area, the commission…
§ 739 (a) As used in this section: (1) “Baseline quantity” means a quantity of electricity or gas allocated by the commission for residential customers based on from…
§ 739.1 (a) The commission shall continue a program of assistance to low-income electricity and gas customers with annual household incomes that are no greater than…
§ 739.2 (a) The commission’s program of assistance to low-income electric and gas customers shall also include the following facilities, provided the commission finds…
§ 739.3 (a) Subject to direction and supervision by the commission, each electrical corporation and gas corporation shall develop and implement a program of rate…
§ 739.4 (a) Any natural gas customer who enrolls in the CARE program after the effective date of this section, but before October 1, 2001, shall receive the same…
§ 739.5 (a) The commission shall require that, whenever gas or electrical service, or both, is provided by a master-meter customer to users who are tenants of a…
§ 739.6 The commission shall establish rates using cost allocation principles that fairly and reasonably assign to different customer classes the costs of providing…
§ 739.7 In establishing residential rates, the commission shall retain an appropriate inverted rate structure. If the commission increases baseline rates pursuant to…
§ 739.8 (a) Access to an adequate supply of healthful water is a basic necessity of human life, and shall be made available to all residents of California at an…
§ 739.9 (a) “Fixed charge” means any fixed customer charge, basic service fee, demand differentiated basic service fee, demand charge, or other charge not based on the…
§ 739.10 The commission shall ensure that errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material over or undercollections of the electrical…
§ 739.11 (a) For bills issued to customers of gas corporations and electrical corporations in which usage is estimated, it is the intent of the Legislature that, to the…
§ 739.12 (a) The commission shall continue a program of assistance to residential customers of the state’s three largest electrical corporations consisting of…
§ 739.13 (a) The commission shall develop a definition of energy affordability. (b) The definition of energy affordability shall establish energy affordability metrics…
§ 739.15 (a) The commission shall determine in a scoping ruling or other ruling whether an application from an electrical corporation or gas corporation requesting…
§ 740 For purposes of setting the rates to be charged by every electrical corporation, gas corporation, heat corporation or telephone corporation for the services or…
§ 740.1 The commission shall consider the following guidelines in evaluating the research, development, and demonstration programs proposed by electrical and gas…
§ 740.2 The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, State Air Resources Board, electrical corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, shall evaluate…
§ 740.3 (a) The commission, in cooperation with the Energy Commission, the State Air Resources Board, air quality management districts and air pollution control…
§ 740.4 (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to engage in programs to encourage economic development. (b) Reasonable expenses for economic development…
§ 740.5 (a) For purposes of this section, “21st Century Energy System Decision” means commission Decision 12-12-031 (December 20, 2012), Decision Granting Authority to…
§ 740.6 (a) The commission may authorize investor-owned gas and electric utilities to match grants provided to nonprofit agencies and local governments to participate…
§ 740.7 Interruptible service or curtailment programs adopted by the commission shall assure that the programs allow customers to aggregate multiple accounts to meet…
§ 740.8 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…
§ 740.9 (a) Any optional binding mandatory curtailment program adopted by the commission that exempts customers from Stage 3 rotating outages in exchange for partial…
§ 740.10 (a) Each public utility electrical corporation shall develop and offer its customers, on or before May 30, 2001, the opportunity to participate, in addition to…
§ 740.11 In recognition of the fact that agricultural and water supplier customers necessarily have high electricity usage during peak summer demand periods, the…
§ 740.12 (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (A) Advanced clean vehicles and fuels are needed to reduce petroleum use, to meet air quality…
§ 740.13 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Charging station” means the removable equipment that provides…
§ 740.14 (a) By July 30, 2018, in consultation with the Department of Parks and Recreation, Public Utilities Commission, Energy Commission, and State Air Resources…
§ 740.15 (a) The commission shall consider, in an existing proceeding, all of the following: (1) Facilitating the development of technologies that promote grid…
§ 740.16 (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (A) State policy incentivizes and encourages the increased use of electric vehicles, and…
§ 740.18 (a) The purpose of this section is to require the commission to review, modify, if appropriate, and decide whether to approve, two pending (as of July 1, 2020)…
§ 740.19 (a) The purpose of this section is to change the commission practice of authorizing the electrical distribution infrastructure located on the utility side of…
§ 740.20 (a) (1) The commission, the Energy Commission, and the State Air Resources Board shall require that all electric vehicle charging infrastructure and equipment…
§ 740.21 (a) Each electrical corporation, as part of its distribution planning process, shall consider the fleet data produced by the Energy Commission pursuant to…
§ 740.23 (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…
§ 741 (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…
§ 741.1 Every nonpublic utility provider of telephone services, including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, or university, which imposes charges on users…
§ 741.2 (a) No nonpublic utility provider of telephone services, including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, university, or similar place of temporary…
§ 741.3 The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements applicable to operator-assisted telephone services, whether furnished by a…
§ 742 (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…
§ 742.1 (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for every corporation or person, other than a telephone corporation,…
§ 742.3 The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce an operating requirement for coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones available for public…
§ 742.5 (a) No telephone corporation which operates within a service area shall provide billing and collection services for either of the following: (1) Any telephone…
§ 743 (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…
§ 743.3 (a) Beginning January 15, 2002, and at least once monthly thereafter, an electrical corporation shall notify each air pollution control district and air…
§ 744 (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)…
§ 744.5 (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…
§ 745 (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…
§ 746 The commission shall determine the appropriate ratemaking treatment for incentive compensation paid to officers or employees of an electrical corporation or…
§ 747 It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission reduce rates for electricity and natural gas to the lowest amount possible.
§ 748.1 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.
§ 748.2 (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), an electrical corporation or gas corporation shall not recover, through a rate approved by the commission, costs…
§ 748.3 (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…
§ 748.5 (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (c), (d), and (e), the commission shall require revenues, including any accrued interest, received by an electrical…
§ 748.5.5 (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…
§ 748.6 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…
§ 749 Public utilities shall develop programs in cooperation with local school districts in reducing their electricity and gas bills through conservation and…
§ 749.5 (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…
§ 750 The commission shall develop formal procedures to consider safety in a rate case application by an electrical corporation or gas corporation. The procedures…
§ 751 (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…
§ 755 (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…
§ 755.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 755, the commission shall allow a water corporation with 10,000 or more service connections to recover the reasonable expenses…
§ 758 (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.…