GENERAL PROVISIONS

General Provisions enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.

§§ 1–22 · 23 sections

• § 1 This act shall be known as the Public Utilities Code.
• § 2 The provisions of this code, insofar as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be…
• § 4 No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein…
• § 5 Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions, rules of construction, and other general provisions contained in Sections 1 to 22,…
• § 6 Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• § 7 Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be performed by a deputy of the officer…
• § 8 Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, petition, or record is…
• § 9 Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and additions heretofore or…
• § 10 “Section” means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. “Subdivision” means a subdivision of the section in which that term…
• § 11 The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.
• § 12 The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter.
• § 12.2 “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.
• § 13 The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
• § 14 “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
• § 15 “Oath” includes affirmation.
• § 16 “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer’s or subscriber’s name being written near the mark by a…
• § 17 “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of Columbia and…
• § 18 “County” includes city and county.
• § 19 “City” includes city and county and “incorporated town,” but does not include “unincorporated town” or “village.”
• § 20 (a) “Commission” means the Public Utilities Commission created by Section 1 of Article XII of the California Constitution, and “commissioner” means a member of…
• § 20.5 For the purposes of this code, “recycled water” or “reclaimed water” has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section 13050 of…
• § 21 If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the application of such…
• § 22 No corporation formed or existing before 12 o'clock m. of January 1, 1873, is affected by the provisions of Division 4 of this code unless the corporation has…