California Code
Public Utilities Code - PUC
DIVISION 5 - UTILITIES OWNED BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS

CHAPTER 1 - Acquisition, Operation, and Sale of Utilities

ARTICLE 1 - Acquisition and Operation

Section 10001. - 10001. “Public utility” as used in this article, means the...

Section 10001.5. - 10001.5. A municipal corporation that provides broadband Internet access services...

Section 10002. - 10002. Any municipal corporation may acquire, construct, own, operate, or...

Section 10003. - 10003. The power to acquire and operate a public utility...

Section 10004. - 10004. For the purpose set forth in Sections 10002 and...

Section 10004.5. - 10004.5. (a) Except as provided for in subdivision (b), any...

Section 10005. - 10005. Whenever, in the operation of a utility, a municipality...

Section 10006. - 10006. No lease of a public utility is valid for...

Section 10007. - 10007. (a) Every public utility furnishing light, heat, or power...

Section 10009. - 10009. (a) This section applies if there is a landlord-tenant...

Section 10009.1. - 10009.1. (a) If a public utility furnishes light, heat, water,...

Section 10009.6. - 10009.6. (a) The decision of a public utility to require...

Section 10010. - 10010. (a) No public utility furnishing light, water, power, or...

Section 10010.1. - 10010.1. (a) A public utility furnishing light, heat, water, or...

Section 10011. - 10011. No electrical, gas, heat, or water public utility shall,...

Section 10011.5. - 10011.5. Whenever a business transaction of a public utility, as...

Section 10012. - 10012. Every public utility shall comply with Section 8029.5. (Added...

Section 10013. - 10013. (a) Subsequent to signing a contingent franchise, license, or...

Section 10014. - 10014. The commission may enter into a contract with a...

ARTICLE 2 - Sale and Disposal

Section 10051. - 10051. Any municipal corporation incorporated under the laws of this...

Section 10052. - 10052. Whenever the legislative body of a municipal corporation by...

Section 10053. - 10053. The ordinance calling the special election shall recite the...

Section 10054. - 10054. The ordinance shall be published once a day for...

Section 10055. - 10055. The votes of two-thirds of all voters voting at...

Section 10056. - 10056. The resolution and ordinance may provide for the sale...

Section 10057. - 10057. If the vote cast at the election is in...

Section 10058. - 10058. At the date fixed for receiving bids the legislative...

Section 10059. - 10059. When a bid is accepted by the legislative body...

Section 10060. - 10060. The proceeds of the sale of the public utility...

Section 10061. - 10061. (a) Notwithstanding Article 1 (commencing with Section 10001) and...

ARTICLE 3 - Rights of Way

Section 10101. - 10101. There is granted to every municipal corporation of the...

Section 10102. - 10102. A municipal corporation exercising its rights under this article...

Section 10103. - 10103. Before any municipal corporation uses any street, alley, avenue,...

Section 10104. - 10104. If the two municipal corporations, or a municipal corporation...

Section 10106. - 10106. This article does not authorize the construction of any...

Section 10107. - 10107. Nothing in this article limits in any respect the...

ARTICLE 4 - Rights in Public Lands and Waters

Section 10151. - 10151. There is granted to every municipal corporation of the...

Section 10152. - 10152. There is granted to every municipal corporation of the...

Section 10153. - 10153. There is granted to every municipal corporation of the...

Section 10154. - 10154. If the route or location of any works or...

Section 10155. - 10155. When any selection of a right of way or...

ARTICLE 5 - Permitted Use of Improvements

Section 10201. - 10201. This article is intended to provide a means of...

Section 10202. - 10202. When any legislative body elects to proceed under this...

Section 10203. - 10203. This article and all of its provisions shall be...

Section 10204. - 10204. “District,” as used in this article, includes any district...

Section 10205. - 10205. Whenever, under any street improvement act under which public...

Section 10206. - 10206. Before granting such permission the legislative body of the...

Section 10207. - 10207. The permission shall be signed by the mayor or...

Section 10208. - 10208. The permission shall state the time for which it...

Section 10209. - 10209. If any extensions of or additional installations for the...

Section 10210. - 10210. The permission shall provide that the charge made by...

Section 10211. - 10211. The permission granted under this article to a private...

Section 10212. - 10212. The permission shall expressly reserve to the legislative body...

Section 10213. - 10213. The permission shall provide that if any district or...

ARTICLE 6 - Injury to Property

Section 10251. - 10251. Any person who injures or destroys, through want of...

ARTICLE 7 - Financing Provisions

Section 10301. - 10301. The Legislature finds and declares that financing the acquisition...

Section 10302. - 10302. As used in this article: (a) “Electrical corporation” means...

Section 10303. - 10303. The use of certificates of participation by a municipal...