California Code
DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES
PART 2 - SPECIFIC PUBLIC UTILITIES

CHAPTER 2 - Water Companies

Section 2701. - 2701. Any person, firm, or corporation, their lessees, trustees, receivers...

Section 2702. - 2702. Any corporation or association which is organized for the...

Section 2703. - 2703. Any corporation or association which is organized both for...

Section 2704. - 2704. Any owner of a water supply not otherwise dedicated...

Section 2705. - 2705. Any corporation or association that is organized for the...

Section 2705.5. - 2705.5. Any person or corporation, and their lessees, receivers, or...

Section 2705.6. - 2705.6. (a) (1) A mobilehome park that provides water service...

Section 2706. - 2706. (a) Any person, firm, or corporation, their lessees, trustees,...

Section 2707. - 2707. For the purpose of determining the status of any...

Section 2708. - 2708. Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its...

Section 2709. - 2709. The commission may require any water corporation to file...

Section 2710. - 2710. When it appears from (a) the statement required by...

Section 2711. - 2711. Section 2710 does not apply to territory or consumers...

Section 2712. - 2712. “Whether under contract or otherwise” as used in Section...

Section 2713. - 2713. (a) No water corporation subject to the jurisdiction and...

Section 2714. - 2714. No water corporation furnishing water for residential use to...

Section 2715. - 2715. (a) A water corporation with more than 10,000 service...

CHAPTER 2.5 - Public Water System Investment and Consolidation Act of 1997

Section 2718. - 2718. This chapter shall be known and may be cited...

Section 2719. - 2719. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:...

Section 2720. - 2720. (a) The commission shall use the standard of fair...

CHAPTER 2.7 - Consolidation for Safe Drinking Water Act of 2021

Section 2721. - 2721. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms...

Section 2722. - 2722. The Consolidation For Safe Drinking Water Fund is hereby...

CHAPTER 3 - Private and Mutual Water Service Law

Section 2725. - 2725. As used in this chapter, “mutual water company” means...

Section 2726. - 2726. As used in this chapter, “private irrigation plant” means...

Section 2727. - 2727. In order to increase the output of agricultural products...

Section 2728. - 2728. The delivery of water pursuant to Section 2727 is...

Section 2729. - 2729. A mutual water company may exercise the power of...

CHAPTER 4.5 - Electrical and Gas Corporations

Section 2771. - 2771. The commission shall establish priorities among the types or...

Section 2772. - 2772. In establishing the priorities pursuant to Section 2771, the...

Section 2773. - 2773. The commission may establish as many priorities of use...

Section 2773.5. - 2773.5. Notwithstanding any rule, order, or decision of the commission...

Section 2774. - 2774. In the event any electrical or gas corporation experiences...

Section 2774.1. - 2774.1. (a) (1) The commission shall require an electrical corporation...

Section 2774.5. - 2774.5. An electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility...

Section 2774.6. - 2774.6. The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall...

Section 2775. - 2775. No electrical or gas corporation which reduces or discontinues...

Section 2775.5. - 2775.5. (a) If an electrical or gas corporation desires to...

Section 2775.6. - 2775.6. Every request for the recovery in rates of any...

Section 2775.7. - 2775.7. (a) (1) If the commission determines that a moratorium...

CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Cooperatives

Section 2776. - 2776. As used in this chapter, the term “electrical cooperative”...

Section 2777. - 2777. The commission shall have no authority to establish rates...

Section 2778. - 2778. Except as otherwise specified in this chapter, every electrical...

CHAPTER 5.5 - Electric Microutilities

Section 2780. - 2780. As used in this chapter, the term “electric microutility”...

Section 2780.1. - 2780.1. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that...

CHAPTER 6 - Home Insulation Assistance and Financing

Section 2781. - 2781. As used in this chapter, the term “electrical corporation”...

Section 2782. - 2782. The commission shall permit any electrical or gas corporation...

Section 2783. - 2783. A home insulation assistance and financing program shall meet...

Section 2784. - 2784. A customer of a participating electrical or gas corporation...

Section 2785. - 2785. Upon approval of an application, the corporation shall arrange...

Section 2786. - 2786. An electrical or gas corporation shall provide for payment...

Section 2787. - 2787. As an alternative to the provisions of Section 2786,...

Section 2788. - 2788. The commission shall allow for purposes of setting the...

Section 2789. - 2789. Notwithstanding any provision of this part, the commission may...

Section 2790. - 2790. (a) The commission shall require an electrical or gas...

CHAPTER 6.5 - Transfer of Facilities in Master-Metered Mobilehome Parks and Manufactured Housing Communities to Gas or Electric Corporation Ownership

Section 2791. - 2791. (a) The owner of a master-metered mobilehome park or...

Section 2792. - 2792. (a) Upon receipt of a written notice of intent...

Section 2793. - 2793. (a) Upon receipt from the park or community owner...

Section 2794. - 2794. (a) A gas or electric system shall be considered...

Section 2795. - 2795. The park or community owner and the gas or...

Section 2796. - 2796. (a) During the pendency of a transfer request, the...

Section 2797. - 2797. The commission shall permit the gas or electric corporation...

Section 2798. - 2798. The commission shall adopt a standard form of agreement...

Section 2799. - 2799. (a) The mobilehome park or manufactured housing community owner...

CHAPTER 7 - Private Energy Producers

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions

Section 2801. - 2801. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in order...

Section 2802. - 2802. “Private energy producer” includes every person, corporation, city, county,...

Section 2803. - 2803. “Interconnection” means the facilities necessary to physically connect the...

Section 2804. - 2804. “Transmission service” means the intrastate transfer of electricity or...

Section 2805. - 2805. “Conventional power source” means power derived from nuclear energy...

Section 2806. - 2806. “Fossil fuel” means a mixture of hydrocarbons including coal,...

Section 2807. - 2807. “Standby charge” means a charge by an electrical corporation...

ARTICLE 2 - Interconnection of Facilities

Section 2811. - 2811. In order to promote the more efficient use and...

Section 2812. - 2812. Upon application of a private energy producer, and after...

Section 2812.5. - 2812.5. Upon application of a private energy producer, and after...

Section 2813. - 2813. The private energy producer shall be required to provide...

Section 2815. - 2815. Nothing in this chapter shall require that any private...

Section 2816. - 2816. Every public utility shall keep accurate records of transactions...

ARTICLE 3 - Rights, Obligations, and Charges

Section 2821. - 2821. (a) The commission shall approve and establish equitable charges...

Section 2821.5. - 2821.5. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:...

Section 2822. - 2822. The commission shall approve and establish standby charges for...

Section 2823. - 2823. The commission shall approve and establish charges for transmission...

Section 2824. - 2824. (a) The commission shall conduct a review of the...

Section 2826. - 2826. (a) The commission shall establish requirements for the administration...

Section 2826.5. - 2826.5. (a) As used in this section, the following terms...

Section 2827. - 2827. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a program...

Section 2827.1. - 2827.1. (a) For purposes of this section, “eligible customer-generator,” “large...

Section 2827.7. - 2827.7. Generation eligible for net energy metering that has all...

Section 2827.8. - 2827.8. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the following...

Section 2827.10. - 2827.10. (a) As used in this section, the following terms...

Section 2828. - 2828. (a) As used in this section, the following terms...

Section 2829. - 2829. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms...

CHAPTER 7.5 - Local Government Renewable Energy Self-Generation Program

Section 2830. - 2830. (a) As used in this section, the following terms...

CHAPTER 7.6 - Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program

Section 2831. - 2831. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:...

Section 2831.5. - 2831.5. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be...

Section 2832. - 2832. (a) On or before March 1, 2014, a participating...

Section 2833. - 2833. (a) (1) Except as specified in paragraph (2), the...

CHAPTER 7.7 - Energy Storage Systems

Section 2835. - 2835. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have...

Section 2836. - 2836. (a) (1) On or before March 1, 2012, the...

Section 2836.2. - 2836.2. In adopting and reevaluating appropriate energy storage system procurement...

Section 2836.4. - 2836.4. (a) An energy storage system may be used to...

Section 2836.6. - 2836.6. All procurement of energy storage systems by a load-serving...

Section 2836.7. - 2836.7. By June 1, 2018, all of the following shall...

Section 2837. - 2837. Each electrical corporation’s renewable energy procurement plan, prepared and...

Section 2838. - 2838. (a) (1) By January 1, 2016, each load-serving entity...

Section 2838.2. - 2838.2. (a) The following definitions apply to this section: (1)...

Section 2838.3. - 2838.3. It is the intent of the Legislature that the...

Section 2838.5. - 2838.5. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, the requirements of...

Section 2839. - 2839. The commission does not have authority or jurisdiction to...

CHAPTER 8 - Energy Efficiency Systems

ARTICLE 1 - Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act

Section 2840. - 2840. This article shall be known and may be cited...

Section 2840.2. - 2840.2. For purposes of this article, the following terms have...

Section 2840.4. - 2840.4. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:...

Section 2840.6. - 2840.6. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that...

Section 2841. - 2841. (a) The commission may require an electrical corporation to...

Section 2841.5. - 2841.5. A local publicly owned electric utility serving retail end-use...

Section 2842. - 2842. The commission, in approving a procurement plan for an...

Section 2842.2. - 2842.2. The commission shall ensure that an electrical corporation utilizes...

Section 2842.4. - 2842.4. (a) The commission shall, for each electrical corporation, establish...

Section 2843. - 2843. (a) The Energy Commission shall, by January 1, 2010,...

CHAPTER 9 - Solar Energy Systems

ARTICLE 1 - Solar Energy Systems

Section 2851. - 2851. (a) In implementing the California Solar Initiative, the commission...

Section 2851.1. - 2851.1. (a) As used in this section,“discount rate” means a...

Section 2851.5. - 2851.5. (a) A school district or community college district may...

Section 2852. - 2852. (a) As used in this section, the following terms...

Section 2854. - 2854. (a) In order to further the state goal of...

Section 2854.5. - 2854.5. Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (5) of subdivision (d) of...

Section 2854.6. - 2854.6. (a) On or before July 1, 2019, the commission...

ARTICLE 3 - Independent Solar Energy Producers

Section 2868. - 2868. The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this...

Section 2869. - 2869. (a) (1) An independent solar energy producer contracting for...

CHAPTER 9.5 - Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program

Section 2870. - 2870. (a) As used in this section, the following terms...

CHAPTER 10 - Telephone Corporations

ARTICLE 1 - Automatic Dialing-Announcing Devices

Section 2871. - 2871. As used in this article, “automatic dialing-announcing device” means...

Section 2872. - 2872. (a) The connection of automatic dialing-announcing devices to a...

Section 2872.5. - 2872.5. The commission, in consultation with the Office of Emergency...

Section 2873. - 2873. Automatic dialing-announcing devices may be used to place calls...

Section 2874. - 2874. (a) Whenever telephone calls are placed through the use...

Section 2875. - 2875. No person shall connect any automatic dialing-announcing device to...

Section 2875.5. - 2875.5. (a) On and after July 1, 2002, no person...

Section 2876. - 2876. Any person violating this article is guilty of a...

ARTICLE 2 - Customer and Subscriber Services

Section 2881. - 2881. (a) The commission shall design and implement a program...

Section 2881.1. - 2881.1. (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 2881,...

Section 2881.2. - 2881.2. (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 2881,...

Section 2881.4. - 2881.4. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the...

Section 2883. - 2883. (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of...

Section 2884. - 2884. (a) The commission shall, pursuant to its existing authority,...

Section 2884.2. - 2884.2. (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), the billing...

Section 2884.5. - 2884.5. Notwithstanding Section 2884, the commission shall require that telephone...

Section 2884.6. - 2884.6. (a) The commission shall require telephone corporations and providers...

Section 2885. - 2885. The commission shall, on or before July 1, 1987,...

Section 2885.6. - 2885.6. (a) The commission shall require mobile telephony service, as...

Section 2886. - 2886. (a) The commission shall require every telephone corporation furnishing...

Section 2888. - 2888. The commission shall pursue all available legal remedies to...

Section 2889. - 2889. (a) An information provider engaged in furnishing any live,...

Section 2889.2. - 2889.2. No telephone corporation or provider of information-access telephone services...

Section 2889.3. - 2889.3. (a) (1) Before a telephone corporation exits the business...

Section 2889.4. - 2889.4. (a) A local exchange service provider that offers and...

Section 2889.5. - 2889.5. (a) No telephone corporation, or any person, firm, or...

Section 2889.6. - 2889.6. The commission shall, by rule or order, require all...

Section 2889.8. - 2889.8. The commission periodically shall assess the reliability of the...

Section 2889.9. - 2889.9. (a) No person or corporation shall misrepresent its association...

Section 2890. - 2890. (a) A telephone bill may only contain charges for...

Section 2890.1. - 2890.1. The commission shall, on or before July 1, 2001,...

Section 2890.2. - 2890.2. (a) A provider of mobile telephony services, as defined...

ARTICLE 3 - Customer Right of Privacy

Section 2891. - 2891. (a) No telephone or telegraph corporation shall make available...

Section 2891.1. - 2891.1. (a) Notwithstanding Section 2891, a telephone corporation selling or...

Section 2891.2. - 2891.2. Telephone subscribers shall be annually notified that use of...

Section 2892.1. - 2892.1. (a) For purposes of this section, “telecommunications service” means...

Section 2892.3. - 2892.3. (a) The commission shall require providers of mobile telephony...

Section 2892.5. - 2892.5. (a) As used in this section “public safety agency”...

Section 2893. - 2893. (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, require...

Section 2893.2. - 2893.2. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms...

Section 2893.5. - 2893.5. (a) This section shall be known, and may be...

Section 2894. - 2894. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 2891, the disclosure...

Section 2894.10. - 2894.10. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a number...

ARTICLE 4 - Telecommunication Services

Section 2895. - 2895. This article shall be known and may be cited...

Section 2896. - 2896. The commission shall require telephone corporations to provide customer...

Section 2896.1. - 2896.1. A provider of commercial mobile radio service, as defined...

Section 2897. - 2897. Consistent with other provisions of this code, orders, rules,...

Section 2898. - 2898. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, upon...

Section 2899. - 2899. (a) For purposes of this section, “incarcerated persons calling...