ARTICLE 3. Equipment, Practices, and Facilities

Article 3 enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.

§§ 761–788 · 61 sections

§ 761 Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of any public utility, or the methods…
§ 761.3 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 216 and subdivision (c) of Section 218.5, the commission shall implement and enforce standards for the…
§ 761.5 (a) Where the commission determines that it would be cost-effective, the commission shall authorize electrical and gas corporations to participate in a…
§ 762 Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that additions, extensions, repairs, or improvements to, or changes in, the existing plant, equipment,…
§ 762.5 The commission, as a basis for making any order pursuant to the provisions of Section 762 relating to location of structures, shall give consideration to, and…
§ 763 (a) Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that any railroad corporation or street railroad corporation does not run a sufficient number of trains or…
§ 764 (a) An electrical corporation that has a contract for private fire safety and prevention, mitigation, or maintenance services, shall only use those services…
§ 764.5 (a) A fire protection district may require an electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility to notify the fire protection district at least…
§ 765 (a) When the federal National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) submits a safety recommendation letter concerning rail safety to the commission, the…
§ 765.5 (a) The purpose of this section is to provide that the commission takes all appropriate action necessary to ensure the safe operation of railroads in this…
§ 765.9 Federal funds available to the commission for rail safety inspection and enforcement purposes shall be allocated to eligible passenger and freight rail…
§ 766 Whenever the commission, after a hearing finds that a physical connection can reasonably be made between the lines of two or more telephone corporations or two…
§ 766.5 The commission shall investigate the practices of every telephone corporation in billing its subscribers for telephone calls, including, but not limited to,…
§ 767 Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint of a public utility affected, finds that public convenience and necessity…
§ 767.5 (a) As used in this section: (1) “Public utility” includes any person, firm, or corporation, except a publicly owned public utility, which owns or controls, or…
§ 767.7 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Legislature has encouraged, and continues to encourage, the rapid and economic development…
§ 768 The commission may, after a hearing, require every public utility to construct, maintain, and operate its line, plant, system, equipment, apparatus, tracks,…
§ 768.5 The commission may, after a hearing, by general or special orders, rules, or otherwise, require every cable television corporation to construct, maintain, and…
§ 768.6 (a) The commission shall establish standards for disaster and emergency preparedness plans within an existing proceeding, including, but not limited to, use of…
§ 769 (a) For purposes of this section, “distributed resources” means distributed renewable generation resources, energy efficiency, energy storage, electric…
§ 769.2 (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1720 of the Labor Code, construction of a renewable electrical generation facility, and…
§ 769.3 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Community choice aggregator” has the same meaning as defined in Section 331.1. (2)…
§ 769.5 (a) The commission may establish an expedited distribution grid interconnection dispute resolution process with the goal of resolving disputes over…
§ 770 The commission may after hearing: (a) Ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements, or service to be…
§ 771 The commissioners and their officers and employees may enter upon any premises occupied by any public utility, for the purpose of making the examinations and…
§ 772 Any consumer or user of any product, commodity, or service of a public utility may have any appliance used in the measurement thereof tested upon paying the…
§ 773 Section 4200 of the Government Code shall not apply to a public utility under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California.
§ 774 No water corporation which has undertaken to provide fire protection service, nor any employee of such corporation acting in the course and scope of his…
§ 775 Whenever an electric or gas corporation sells fuel oil which is, or is reasonably expected to be, useful in the performance of its public utility function, at…
§ 776 (a) The commission shall, upon making the determination pursuant to subdivision (c), develop and implement performance reliability standards for all backup…
§ 776.2 (a) For purposes of this section, “telecommunications service” has the same meaning as defined in Section 2892.1, but does not include voice communication…
§ 776.5 (a) In preparation for receiving notifications regarding the deenergization of electrical lines pursuant to Section 8386 or 8387, a facilities-based mobile…
§ 777 (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)…
§ 777.1 (a) If an electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation furnishes residential service to residential occupants through a master meter in a multiunit residential…
§ 778 The commission shall adopt rules and regulations, which shall become effective on July 1, 1977, relating to safety appliances and procedures for rail transit…
§ 779 (a) No electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation may terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the corporation first gives…
§ 779.1 (a) Every electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation shall allow every residential customer at least 19 days from the date of mailing its bill for services,…
§ 779.2 (a) No electrical, gas, heat, telephone, or water corporation may terminate residential service for nonpayment of any delinquent account or other indebtedness…
§ 779.3 (a) A gas or electrical corporation shall not disconnect service for nonpayment by a residential customer receiving a medical baseline allowance pursuant to…
§ 779.4 (a) For purposes of this section, “energy utility” means an electrical corporation, a gas corporation, or an entity that is both an electrical corporation and…
§ 779.5 The decision of an electrical, gas, heat, telephone, or water corporation to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the corporation…
§ 779.6 (a) An electrical or gas corporation shall restore service to a residential customer whose service was previously terminated for nonpayment of delinquent…
§ 779.7 (a) On or before July 1, 2025, the commission shall, in a new or existing proceeding, determine whether to direct electrical and gas corporations to take into…
§ 780 No electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation shall, by reason of delinquency in the payment of its charges, terminate service on any Saturday, Sunday, legal…
§ 780.5 The commission shall require every residential unit in an apartment house or similar multiunit residential structure, condominium, and mobilehome park for…
§ 781 (a) (1) Each water corporation with 500 or more service connections that is not subject to the requirements of Section 525, 526, 527, or 528 of the Water Code…
§ 781.5 The commission may require a water corporation that furnishes potable water for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional use through less than 500…
§ 782 In order to encourage the development of geothermal resources in the State of California, the commission may, upon a complaint by a geothermal energy producer,…
§ 783 (a) The commission shall continue to enforce the rules governing the extension of service by gas and electrical corporations to new residential, commercial,…
§ 783.5 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Disadvantaged community” means a San Joaquin Valley community that…
§ 784 For each gas corporation, the commission shall adopt pipeline access rules that ensure that each gas corporation provides nondiscriminatory open access to its…
§ 784.1 (a) The Legislature requests that the California Council on Science and Technology undertake and complete a study analyzing the regional and gas corporation…
§ 784.2 Before the exhaustion of the funds made available pursuant to the monetary incentive program for biomethane projects adopted in Decision 15-06-029 (June 11,…
§ 785 To the extent consistent with federal law and regulation and contractual obligations regarding other available gas, the commission shall, in consultation with…
§ 785.1 (a) The commission shall require, after a hearing, every gas corporation to revise its transportation tariffs and conditions of service to eliminate all…
§ 785.2 The commission shall investigate, as part of the rate proceeding for any gas corporation, impediments to the in-state production and storage of natural gas.…
§ 785.5 (a) The commission shall require every gas corporation to adopt and pursue purchasing and procurement practices which assure its customers the lowest rates…
§ 785.7 (a) No gas corporation shall charge, directly or indirectly, a higher rate for the transportation of gas produced in this state than for the transportation of…
§ 786 (a) On or before March 1, 1984, and annually thereafter, every telephone corporation operating within a service area shall issue to each of its residential…
§ 787 (a) Any public utility, or its contractor, to whom an excavation permit has been issued by any local agency for the installation, removal, maintenance, or…
§ 788 (a) This section applies only to a telephone corporation that is a provider of local exchange service. (b) On or before March 1, 1992, and annually thereafter,…