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CA Pub Util Code § 983.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.7 - Core Transport Agent|Section 983.7.

983.7.  If a customer files a claim with a gas corporation for damages to property resulting from the curtailment of gas service due to the failure of the gas corporation to reasonably provide service or restore service within a reasonable time after a fire, flood, earthquake, other natural disaster, or act of God, the gas corporation shall inform the customer that the claim may be pursued in small claims court or other judicial courts, depending on the amount of the claim. (Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 604, Sec. 4. (SB 656) Effective January 1, 2014.)
CA Pub Util Code § 984 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.7 - Core Transport Agent|Section 984.

984.  In order to carry out essential elements of a sustainable and effective consumer protection program in connection with core transport agents offering gas service to core gas customers as intended by the Legislature in this chapter, the following shall apply:(a) A registration fee of one hundred dollars ($100) shall be collected from a core transport agent required to register under this chapter and the fee proceeds shall be deposited in the Public Utilities Reimbursement Account established under Section 402. The commission may adjust the fee as necessary to recover the cost of administering the program.(b) The commission shall annually determine the costs of administering the registration program and other facets of consumer protection directly related to the core transport service transactions of core transport agents, including the cost for the duties imposed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 984.5. The commission shall only collect those costs not already being collected elsewhere. Registrants who fail to submit to the commission required fees or information upon which fees are calculated within 30 days of billing shall be subject to a 15-percent penalty. (Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 604, Sec. 4. (SB 656) Effective January 1, 2014.)
CA Pub Util Code § 984.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.7 - Core Transport Agent|Section 984.5.

984.5.  (a) The commission shall compile and regularly update the following information: names and contact numbers of a registered core transport agent, information to assist consumers in making service choices, and the number of customer complaints against specific providers in relation to the number of customers served by those providers and the disposition of those complaints. To facilitate this function, registered entities shall file with the commission information describing the terms and conditions of any standard service plan made available to core gas customers. The commission shall adopt a standard format for this filing. The commission shall maintain and make generally available a list of entities offering core transport services operating in California. This list shall include all registered core transport agents and those agents not required to be registered that request the commission to be included on the list. The commission shall, upon request, make this information available at no charge. Notwithstanding any other law, public agencies that are registered entities shall be required to disclose their terms and conditions of service contracts only to the same extent that other registered entities would be required to disclose the same or similar service contracts.(b) The commission shall issue public alerts about companies attempting to provide core transport service in the state in an unauthorized or fraudulent manner as described in subdivision (b) of Section 983.5.(c) The commission shall compile and post on its Internet Web site easily understandable informational guides or other tools to help core gas customers understand core transport service options. In implementing these provisions, the commission shall pay special attention to ensuring that customers, especially those with limited-English-speaking ability or other disadvantages when dealing with marketers, receive correct, reliable, and easily understood information to help them make informed choices. The commission shall not make specific recommendations, rank the relative attractiveness of specific service offerings of registered providers of core transport services, or provide customer-specific assistance in the evaluation of core transport agents.(d) The Public Advocate’s Office of the Public Utilities Commission shall analyze customers’ complaints submitted to the gas corporation and to the commission and the disposition of those complaints to determine if the changes in the consumer protection rules are necessary to better protect the participants in the core transportation program, and make recommendations to the commission regarding those rule changes.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 51, Sec. 45. (SB 854) Effective June 27, 2018.)
CA Pub Util Code § 987 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.7 - Core Transport Agent|Section 987.

987.  (a) The commission shall maintain a list of core gas customers who do not wish to be solicited by telephone, by a gas corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator for gas service, to subscribe to or change their core transport agent. The commission shall not assess a charge for inclusion of a customer on the list. The list shall be updated periodically, but no less than quarterly.(b) The list shall include sufficient information for gas corporations, marketers, brokers, or aggregators of gas service to identify customers who do not wish to be solicited, including a customer’s address and telephone number. The list shall be made accessible electronically from the commission to any party regulated as a gas corporation or registered with the commission as an electric marketer, broker, or aggregator of gas service.(c) A gas corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator of gas service shall not solicit, by telephone, any customer on the list prepared pursuant to subdivision (a). Any gas corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator of gas service, or the representative of a gas corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator of gas service, who solicits any customer on the list prepared pursuant to subdivision (a) more than once shall be liable to the customer for twenty-five dollars ($25) for each contact in violation of this subdivision.(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 71, Sec. 153. (SB 1304) Effective January 1, 2015.)
CA Pub Util Code § 988 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.7 - Core Transport Agent|Section 988.

988.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, requirements placed on a core transport agent shall not apply to gas services provided by a local publicly owned gas utility to customers within the jurisdiction or service territory of that local publicly owned gas utility. (Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 604, Sec. 4. (SB 656) Effective January 1, 2014.)
CA Pub Util Code § 989 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.7 - Core Transport Agent|Section 989.

989.  Unclaimed refunds ordered by the commission, and any accrued interest, may be used by the commission to fund additional consumer protection efforts. (Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 604, Sec. 4. (SB 656) Effective January 1, 2014.)
CA Pub Util Code § 989.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.7 - Core Transport Agent|Section 989.1.

989.1.  (a) In addition to any other right to revoke an offer, core gas customers of gas service, have the right to cancel a contract for gas service until midnight of the third business day after the day on which the buyer signs an agreement or offer to purchase.(b) Cancellation occurs when the buyer gives written notice of cancellation to the seller at the address specified in the agreement or offer.(c) Notice of cancellation, if given by mail, is effective when deposited in the mail properly addressed with postage prepaid.(d) Notice of cancellation given by the buyer need not take the particular form as provided with the contract or offer to purchase and, however expressed, is effective if it indicates the intention of the buyer not to be bound by the contract. (Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 604, Sec. 4. (SB 656) Effective January 1, 2014.)
CA Pub Util Code § 989.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.7 - Core Transport Agent|Section 989.5.

989.5.  (a) A consumer damaged by a violation of this chapter by a core transport agent is entitled to recover all of the following:(1) Actual damages.(2) The consumer’s reasonable attorney’s fees and court costs.(3) Exemplary damages, in the amount the court deems proper, for intentional or willful violations.(4) Equitable relief as the court deems proper.(b) The rights, remedies, and penalties established by this chapter are in addition to the rights, remedies, or penalties established under any other law.(c) This chapter does not abrogate any authority of the Attorney General to enforce existing law. (Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 604, Sec. 4. (SB 656) Effective January 1, 2014.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1201 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1201.

1201.  No public road, highway, or street shall be constructed across the track of any railroad corporation at grade, nor shall the track of any railroad corporation be constructed across a public road, highway, or street at grade, or shall the track of any railroad corporation be constructed across the track of any other railroad or street railroad corporation at grade, nor shall the track of a street railroad corporation be constructed across the track of a railroad corporation at grade, without having first secured the permission of the commission. This section shall not apply to the replacement of lawfully existing tracks. The commission may refuse its permission or grant it upon such terms and conditions as it prescribes.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1201.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1201.1.

1201.1.  The commission, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall adopt rules and regulations prescribing uniform standards regarding the time after the warning signal begins at a railroad crossing at which traffic enforcement shall begin, after public hearings and consultation with transit districts or transportation commissions and multicounty rail transit entities established under Division 12 (commencing with Section 130000), that provide rail transportation.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 841, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2000.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1202 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1202.

1202.  The commission has the exclusive power:(a) To determine and prescribe the manner, including the particular point of crossing, and the terms of installation, operation, maintenance, use, and protection of each crossing of one railroad by another railroad or street railroad, of a street railroad by a railroad, of each crossing of a public or publicly used road or highway by a railroad or street railroad, and of a street by a railroad or of a railroad by a street.(b) To alter, relocate, or abolish by physical closing any crossing set forth in subdivision (a).(c) To require, where in its judgment it would be practicable, a separation of grades at any crossing established and to prescribe the terms upon which the separation shall be made and the proportions in which the expense of the construction, alteration, relocation, or abolition of crossings or the separation of grades shall be divided between the railroad or street railroad corporations affected or between these corporations and the state, county, city, or other political subdivision affected.(d) To authorize on an application-by-application basis and supervise the operation of pilot projects to evaluate proposed crossing warning devices, new technology, or other additional safety measures at designated crossings, with the consent of the local jurisdiction, the affected railroad, and other interested parties, including, but not limited to, represented railroad employees.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 425, Sec. 10. (SB 385) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1202.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1202.1.

1202.1.  In any proceeding under Section 1202, where the application to the commission states that the parties are not in agreement as to apportionment of costs, but the applicant is willing to advance the amount of money reasonably necessary to enable the respondent to complete the work to be done by it, the commission shall set the application for hearing as soon as its calendar permits on all of the following questions:(a) The necessity for the project.(b) The approval of the location and the engineering plans, including provisions for handling traffic during construction and the work to be performed by each party.(c) The sum to be advanced by the applicant for the work to be done by the respondent. The commission shall render as promptly as possible an interim decision effective within 20 days on the questions, reserving for a later hearing and decision the question of apportionment of costs. The decision shall also order the respondent to proceed upon receipt of the sum to be advanced by the applicant without delay to perform the work to be done by the respondent, integrating the work with that of the applicant or its contractor in such manner that neither will unreasonably obstruct or delay the work of the other, to the end that the people of the state may have the use of the project at the earliest possible date.In the event of the failure or refusal of the respondent to grant a right of entry to permit the applicant to proceed with the work to be performed by it or its contractor, the applicant may, pursuant to Section 19 of Article I of the Constitution, obtain an order of immediate possession in a court of competent jurisdiction if a condemnation action has previously been filed in that court, or file the action and obtain an order of immediate possession in the event the action has not previously been filed. Upon obtaining the order, the applicant may proceed in the same manner as if a right of entry had been granted, and the respondent shall proceed with its own work and integrate it with that of the applicant or its contractor.In the final decision apportioning costs, the commission shall credit the sum advanced by the applicant against the applicant’s share of the costs. In the final decision, the commission shall also credit against the applicant’s share of the costs any increases in those costs found by the commission to be directly attributable to the respondent’s willful failure or refusal, after the effective date of the interim decision, to proceed with its own work or to integrate its work with that of the applicant or its contractor.(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 144, Sec. 167.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1202.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1202.2.

1202.2.  In apportioning the cost of maintenance of automatic grade-crossing protection constructed or altered after October 1, 1965 under Section 1202, as between the railroad or street railroad corporations and the public agencies affected, the commission shall divide such maintenance cost in the same proportion as the cost of constructing such automatic grade-crossing protection is divided. The liability of cities, counties and cities and counties to pay the share of maintenance costs assigned to such local agencies by the commission shall be limited to funds set aside for allocation to the commission pursuant to Section 1231.1. The railroad or street railroad corporations and the public agencies affected may agree on a different division of maintenance costs. If the public agency affected agrees to assume a greater proportion of the cost of maintenance than the apportionment of the cost of construction, the difference shall be paid by the public agency from funds other than the State Highway Fund or any other state fund.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1644.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1202.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1202.3.

1202.3.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any proceeding under Section 1202, in the case of a crossing involving a publicly used road or highway not on a publicly maintained road system, the commission may apportion expense for improvements to the county in the case of unincorporated territory, city or other political subdivision if the commission finds (a) that the owner or owners of private property served by such publicly used crossing agree to expressly dedicate and improve, and the affected public agency agrees to accept, a right-of-way or roadway over such property for a reasonable distance from such crossing as determined by the commission, or (b) that a judicial determination of implied dedication of such road or highway over the railroad right-of-way to public use, based on public user in the manner and for the time required by law, has taken place.If neither of these conditions is found to exist, the commission shall order the crossing abolished by physical closing.In no event shall a railroad be required to bear costs for the improvement of a publicly used crossing in excess of what it would be required to bear in connection with the improvement of a public street or highway crossing.(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1477.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1202.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1202.4.

1202.4.  If a city or county develops and adopts, by resolution upon a majority vote of the city council or the board of supervisors, a plan to improve mobility for multimodal access that calls for new or modified railroad crossings, the commission shall make an engineer available from the Rail Crossings and Engineering Branch to assist and advise that city or county on the safety of the planned railroad crossings before the filing of an application to the commission for the approval of the new or modified railroad crossings.(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 233, Sec. 1. (AB 1017) Effective January 1, 2020.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1202.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1202.6.

1202.6.  Any municipal corporation, transit district, rapid transit district, or other public entity which provides rail passenger transportation services through a contract with a railroad corporation, may pay all or part of the share of a grade separation project allocated to such railroad corporation, or all or part of such share of a project’s cost negotiated and agreed upon as the railroad’s share by the railroad and a public agency or agencies pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1202.5. In any case where the municipal corporation, transit district, rapid transit district, or other public entity agrees to pay all or part of the railroad’s share, it may enter into the negotiations allocating costs and may be a party to the agreement assessing such costs.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 961.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1202.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1202.7.

1202.7.  Whenever existing automatic grade-crossing safety signal equipment that was installed within the previous 10 years is planned for removal due to upgrade or closure projects undertaken pursuant to Section 130 of Title 23 of the United States Code, and the commission determines that it will meet the same performance criteria and inspection standards as new equipment and therefore be safe to use, the signal equipment shall be made available to the following:(a) With the consent of the participating railroad, to a state agency designated by the commission, for storage and potential use at a railroad crossing currently nominated by the commission for funding to eliminate hazards of railway-highway crossings pursuant to Section 130 of Title 23 of the United States Code.(b) To other railroads for use at other railway-highway crossings within the state.(Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 885, Sec. 2. Effective September 30, 2006.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1203 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings|Section 1203.

1203.  Each corporation and political subdivision to which any of the expense is apportioned shall pay from the funds available therefor in its treasury the amount apportioned to it at the time and to the parties specified by the order of the commission. If that amount is not so paid the corporation or political subdivision entitled thereto under the order may sue therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction. If no such funds are available the appropriate boards, officers, and employees intrusted with the levy and collection of the taxes or assessments of such political subdivision shall do all acts necessary to include in the next succeeding tax or assessment levy the amount due and shall collect that amount, whereupon the amount due shall be paid in accordance with the commission’s order. The commission may by order designate the State, certain of the corporations, and political subdivisions affected, to do all or specified portions of the acts required by any order of the commission made under the provisions of Sections 1202 to 1205, inclusive, and may prescribe the manner and the time within which the parties so designated shall be paid or reimbursed by the other corporations, the State, and political subdivisions among which the expense of the work has been apportioned by the commission.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)