ARTICLE 5. Utility Works and Service

Article 5 enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.

§§ 12801–12827 · 46 sections

§ 12801 A district may acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use, within or without, or partly within or partly without, the district, works or parts of works…
§ 12801.5 A district that provides broadband Internet access services shall comply with the requirements of Article 12 (commencing with Section 53167) of Chapter 1 of…
§ 12802 A district may accept, without limitation by any other provisions of this division requiring approval of indebtedness, contributions of money, rights of way,…
§ 12803 Except as provided in this division with reference to sewage disposal, a district shall not interfere with or exercise any control over any existing utility…
§ 12804 Whenever there is a surplus of water, light, heat, or power above that which is required by inhabitants or public agencies within a district, the district may…
§ 12805 Whenever any of the facilities, works, or utilities of the district, or part thereof, is not used or employed to its fullest capacity for the benefit or…
§ 12806 The district and any public agencies included therein may at any time enter into appropriate contracts for the use by any such public agencies of commodities…
§ 12807 A district may sell or otherwise dispose of any water, sewage effluent, fertilizer, or other by-product resulting from the operation of a sewage disposal…
§ 12808 A district may construct works across or along any street or public highway, or over any of the lands which are the property of the State, and it shall have…
§ 12808.5 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 53091 and 65402 of the Government Code, Section 12808 of the Public Utilities Code and Section 1469 of the Streets and Highways…
§ 12809 The rates and charges for commodities or service furnished by a district shall be fixed by the board. As far as possible utilities shall be self-supporting but…
§ 12810 The board may provide that rates, tolls, and charges for any sewage disposal enterprise or service may be collected with the rates, tolls, and charges for any…
§ 12811 The board may provide for the collection of fees, tolls, rates, rentals, or other charges in any lawful manner and may provide for collection by action at law,…
§ 12811.1 (a) Except when prohibited by Section 12822.6, a district may, by resolution or ordinance, require the owner of record of real property within the district to…
§ 12811.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a district may establish a temporary relief program for assistance to needy customers of the district who are…
§ 12812 The board may apportion all or a portion of the expenses of operation and maintenance of any sewage disposal facilities constructed by the district, and the…
§ 12813 Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this article, the board may, in its discretion, finance any sewage disposal or solid waste resource recovery…
§ 12814 A district may add fluorine or fluorine compounds to the water supply of the district only if the voters of the district have approved the addition of the…
§ 12815 The board may call a special election at any time for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the proposition as to whether or not the voters…
§ 12815.1 The board shall adopt an ordinance, in accordance with Section 12815, calling an election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district the…
§ 12815.2 Petitions which meet the requirements of this article shall be certified as sufficient.
§ 12815.3 Before circulating the petition, its proponents shall publish a notice of intention to do so. The notice shall be accompanied by a printed statement, not…
§ 12815.4 The petition shall declare that the public interest or necessity demands that a special election be called by the board of directors for the purpose of…
§ 12815.5 Any registered voter who is a resident of the district may circulate the petition anywhere within the district. Each section of the petition shall bear the…
§ 12815.6 The petition shall be filed by the proponents, or by any person or persons authorized, in writing, by the proponents. All sections of the petition shall be…
§ 12815.7 If the petition contains more than 500 signatures, the secretary shall, within 30 days from the date such petition is filed, verify such signatures by means of…
§ 12815.8 In determining valid signatures from voter registration records, the secretary may use the duplicate file of affidavits or may check the signatures against…
§ 12815.85 The secretary shall attach to the petition, a certificate showing the result of the signature examination, and shall notify the proponents of either the…
§ 12815.9 If the petition is found insufficient, no action shall be taken on it. However, the failure to secure sufficient signatures shall not preclude the later filing…
§ 12816 (a) At least 90 days prior to the election provided for in Sections 12815 and 12815.1, notice of the election shall be published within the district. Any voter…
§ 12817 A district may, through contract or otherwise, construct, maintain, improve and operate public recreational facilities appurtenant to any water reservoir owned…
§ 12818 (a) No publicly owned utility shall commence the distribution or sale of water for municipal, domestic, industrial or similar purposes for, on, or to, any land…
§ 12819 (a) Every district furnishing light, heat, or power shall expend no funds for advertising when the advertising encourages increased consumption of the services…
§ 12819.5 Whenever a business transaction of a municipal utility district furnishing electricity, gas, water service where the utility has 10,000 or more service…
§ 12820 (a) A district may employ a suitable security force. The employees of the district that are designated by the general manager as security officers shall have…
§ 12821 (a) Notwithstanding Section 117070 or 117120 of the Health and Safety Code, any violation of a rule or regulation of a district adopted pursuant to Section…
§ 12821.5 (a) Whenever residential light, heat, or power is furnished through a submeter system by a master-meter customer for sale to users who are tenants of a…
§ 12822 (a) This section applies if there is a landlord-tenant relationship between the residential occupants and the owner, manager, or operator of the dwelling. (b)…
§ 12822.1 (a) If a district furnishes residential light, heat, water, or power to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential structure,…
§ 12822.6 (a) The decision of a district to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the district prior to establishing an account and…
§ 12823 (a) A district furnishing its inhabitants with light, water, power, or heat shall not terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account…
§ 12823.1 (a) A district furnishing light, heat, water, or power shall not terminate residential service on account of nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the…
§ 12824 No electrical, gas, heat, or water municipal utility district shall, by reason of delinquency in payment for any electric, gas, heat, or water services, cause…
§ 12825 (a) A district furnishing light, heat, or power may engage in activities to reduce wasteful, uneconomical or unnecessary uses of energy, including, but not…
§ 12826 Every district shall comply with Section 8029.5.
§ 12827 The board of a district that has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and has a population of 250,000 or more may engage…