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CA Pub Util Code § 454.56 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 454.56.

454.56.  (a) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for the gas corporation to achieve, consistent with the targets established pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 25310 of the Public Resources Code.(b) A gas corporation shall first meet its unmet resource needs through all available natural gas efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.(c) By July 1, 2018, and every four years thereafter, each gas corporation shall report on its progress toward achieving the targets established pursuant to subdivision (a).(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 25310 of the Public Resources Code, if the commission concludes in its review pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 454.55 that the targets established for gas corporations to achieve pursuant to subdivision (a) are not cost effective, feasible, or pose potential adverse impacts to public health and safety, the commission shall revise the targets to the level that maximizes the amount of energy efficiency savings and demand reduction and shall modify, revise, or update its policies as needed to address barriers preventing achievement of those targets.(e) The commission shall ensure that there are sufficient moneys available to gas corporations to meet the efficiency targets established pursuant to subdivision (a). This subdivision shall not be construed to authorize the commission to impose or increase any tax.(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 842, Sec. 14.5. (SB 1222) Effective January 1, 2017.)
CA Pub Util Code § 454.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 454.6.

454.6.  (a) A contract entered into pursuant to Section 454.5 by an electrical corporation for the electricity generated by a replacement or repowering project that meets the criteria specified in subdivision (b) shall be recoverable in rates, taking into account any collateral requirements and debt equivalence associated with the contract, in a manner determined by the commission to provide the best value to ratepayers.(b) To be eligible for rate treatment in accordance with subdivision (a), a contract shall be for a project which meets all of the following criteria:(1) The project is a replacement or repowering of an existing generation unit of a thermal powerplant.(2) The project complies with all applicable requirements of federal, state, and local laws.(3) The project will not require significant additional rights-of-way for electrical or fuel-related transmission facilities.(4) The project will result in significant and substantial increases in the efficiency of the production of electricity.(5) The Independent System Operator or local system operator certifies that the project is needed for local area reliability.(6) The project provides electricity to consumers of this state at the cost of generating that electricity, including a reasonable return on the investment and the costs of financing the project.(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 374, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2006.)
CA Pub Util Code § 454.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 454.7.

454.7.  The commission shall, to the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with Section 2771, provide cogeneration technology projects with the highest possible priority for the purchase of natural gas.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 922.)
CA Pub Util Code § 454.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 454.8.

454.8.  In any decision establishing rates for an electrical or gas corporation reflecting the reasonable and prudent costs of the new construction of any addition to or extension of the corporation’s plant, when the commission has found and determined that the addition or extension is used and useful, the commission shall consider a method for the recovery of these costs which would be constant in real economic terms over the useful life of the facilities, so that ratepayers in a given year will not pay for the benefits received in other years.(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 926, Sec. 1.)
CA Pub Util Code § 454.9 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 454.9.

454.9.  (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to establish catastrophic event memorandum accounts and to record in those accounts the costs of the following:(1) Restoring utility services to customers.(2) Repairing, replacing, or restoring damaged utility facilities.(3) Complying with governmental agency orders in connection with events declared disasters by competent state or federal authorities.(b) The costs, including capital costs, recorded in the accounts set forth in subdivision (a) shall be recoverable in rates following a request by the affected utility, a commission finding of their reasonableness, and approval by the commission. The commission shall hold expedited proceedings in response to utility applications to recover costs associated with catastrophic events.(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1156, Sec. 1. Effective September 30, 1994.)
CA Pub Util Code § 455 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 455.

455.  Whenever any schedule stating an individual or joint rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule, not increasing or resulting in an increase in any rate, is filed with the commission, it may, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative, at once and if it so orders without answer or other formal pleadings by the interested public utility or utilities, but upon reasonable notice, enter upon a hearing concerning the propriety of the rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule. Pending the hearing and the decision thereon the rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule shall not go into effect. Except as provided in Section 455.1, the period of suspension of the rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule shall not extend beyond 120 days beyond the time when it would otherwise go into effect unless the commission extends the period of suspension for a further period not exceeding six months. On the hearing the commission shall establish the rates, classifications, contracts, practices, or rules proposed, in whole or in part, or others in lieu thereof, which it finds to be just and reasonable.All rates, classifications, contracts, practices, or rules not so suspended shall become effective on the expiration of 30 days from the time of filing thereof with the commission or a lesser time as the commission may grant, subject to the power of the commission, after a hearing had on its own motion or upon complaint, to alter or modify them.(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 406, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1994.)
CA Pub Util Code § 455.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 455.1.

455.1.  Whenever a water corporation files with the commission, pursuant to an advice letter submitted in accordance with commission procedures for this means of submission, a schedule stating rates, classifications, contracts, practices, or rules for the service of recycled water, the policies and standards for which are provided for in Article 7 (commencing with Section 13550) of Chapter 7 of Division 7 of the Water Code, the commission shall observe the following procedures:(a) Unless the commission determines, pursuant to subdivision (b), that the schedule filed by a water corporation for the service of recycled water is not justified or, pursuant to subdivision (d), any other party protests in writing the filing of the schedule, the schedule shall become effective upon the expiration of 40 days from the time of filing thereof.(b) Notwithstanding the filing of notice of changes or amendments as provided in subdivision (c) or a protest as provided in subdivision (d), the schedule as filed shall become effective on an interim basis upon the expiration of 30 days from the time of filing thereof, subject to refund of any amount of the rate subsequently found by the commission to be in excess of a just and reasonable rate.(c) If, upon its own initiative, the commission, acting through the staff organization with responsibility for reviewing advice letter filings, determines that the schedule filed by a water corporation for the service of recycled water is not justified, it shall notify the water corporation of the determination in writing within 40 days from the time of filing of the schedule and shall state in the notice all changes or amendments to the schedule that are required to make it just and reasonable. Upon the refiling by the water corporation within 10 days of the receipt of the notice of a revised schedule incorporating all changes and amendments specified by the commission, the revised schedule shall become effective on an interim basis subject to refund upon the expiration of five days from the time of the refiling thereof, and shall become final upon formal commission action approving the schedule, as revised.(d) If any other party, including the commission organization or division created pursuant to Section 309.5, protests in writing the schedule filed by a water corporation for the service of recycled water, the commission shall set the matter for a hearing on the protest to be held within a reasonable time from the time that the party files its written protest with the commission.(e) Subdivision (d) of Section 311 shall govern the timing of actions by the commission after the close of the record in any proceeding pursuant to subdivision (d) of this section.(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 130, Sec. 219.5. Effective January 1, 2008.)
CA Pub Util Code § 455.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 455.2.

455.2.  (a) The commission shall issue its final decision on a general rate case application of a water corporation with greater than 10,000 service connections in a manner that ensures that the commission’s decision becomes effective on the first day of the first test year in the general rate increase application.(b) If the commission’s decision is not effective in accordance with subdivision (a), the applicant may file a tariff implementing interim rates that may be increased by an amount equal to the rate of inflation as compared to existing rates. The interim rates shall be effective on the first day of the first test year in the general rate case application. These interim rates shall be subject to refund and shall be adjusted upward or downward back to the interim rate effective date, consistent with the final rates adopted by the commission. The commission may authorize a lesser increase in interim rates if the commission finds the rates to be in the public interest. If the presiding officer in the case determines that the commission’s decision cannot become effective on the first day of the first test year due to actions by the water corporation, the presiding officer or commission may require a different effective date for the interim rates or final rates.(c) The commission shall establish a schedule to require every water corporation subject to the rate case plan for water corporations to file an application pursuant to the plan every three years. The plan shall include a provision to allow the filing requirement to be waived upon mutual agreement of the commission and the water corporation.(d) The requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b) may be waived at any time by mutual consent of the executive director of the commission and the water corporation.(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1147, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2003.)
CA Pub Util Code § 455.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 455.3.

455.3.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to Section 454, no later than January 1, 1998, the commission shall adopt rules and regulations that substantially revise the manner in which oil pipeline corporations may change and use rates.(b) The revised rules and regulations shall adhere to the following criteria:(1) Pipeline corporations shall be required to give the commission and all shippers no less than 30 days’ notice of rate changes.(2) After the 30-day notice of rate change, pipeline corporations shall be permitted to change rates and use those rates prior to commission approval.(3) The commission shall have the authority to suspend a rate change and use of the changed rate for a period of time not to exceed 30 days from expiration of the 30-day notice period specified in paragraph (1).(4) Pipeline corporations shall refund, with interest, any portion of the rate change that is subsequently disallowed by the commission to all shippers within 30 days of the commission’s decision becoming final. Interest shall accrue from the date the new rate is first charged.(5) Any increase in the shipping rate charged by an oil pipeline corporation prior to commission approval shall not exceed 10 percent per 12-month period. The commission shall determine the appropriateness of allowing retroactive charge and collection of subsequently approved rate increases above 10 percent.(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that oil pipeline corporations be permitted to use new rates after the period of the suspension of a rate change, if any, by the commission pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) prior to commission approval, provided any disallowed portion of the new rate is fully refunded with interest.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 802, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1996.)
CA Pub Util Code § 456 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 456.

456.  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any public utility from profiting, to the extent permitted by the commission, from any economies, efficiencies, or improvements which it may make, and from distributing by way of dividends, or otherwise disposing of, such profits. The commission may make or permit such arrangement with any public utility as it deems wise for the purpose of encouraging economies, efficiencies, or improvements and securing the public utility making them such portion of the profits thereof as the commission determines.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 458 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 458.

458.  (a) No common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall, by means of known false billing, classification, weight, weighing, or report of weight, or by any other device or means assist, suffer, or permit any corporation or person to obtain transportation for any person or property between points within this state at less than the rates and fares then established and in force as shown by the schedules filed and in effect at the time.No person, corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation shall, by means of false billing, false or incorrect classification, false weight or weighing, false representation as to contents or substance of a package, or false report or statement of weight, or by any other device or means, whether with or without the consent or connivance of a common carrier or any of its officers, agents, or employees, seek to obtain or obtain such transportation for such property at less than the rates then established and in force therefor.(b) Subdivision (a) is not applicable to network railroad transportation.(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 1005, Sec. 15. Effective January 1, 2000.)
CA Pub Util Code § 459 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 459.

459.  (a) No person or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, by any false statement or representation as to cost or value, or the nature or extent of an injury, or by the use of any false billing, bill of lading, receipt, voucher, roll, account, claim, certificate, affidavit, or deposition, or upon any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, obtain or attempt to obtain any allowance, rebate, or payment for damage, in connection with or growing out of the transportation of persons or property, or an agreement to transport such persons or property, whether with or without the consent or connivance of a common carrier or any of its officers, agents, or employees. No common carrier, or any of its officers, agents, or employees, shall knowingly pay or offer to pay any such allowance, rebate, or claim for damage.(b) Subdivision (a) is not applicable to network railroad transportation.(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 1005, Sec. 16. Effective January 1, 2000.)
CA Pub Util Code § 460.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 460.3.

460.3.  (a) The commission shall prohibit any passenger stage corporation from charging any fare to, or imposing any other charge on, any physically disabled or handicapped passenger which is more than the fare or charge imposed on a passenger who is not physically disabled or handicapped for the same transportation or service, and shall approve no schedule of fares or charges which is discriminatory under this section.(b) Any special provision made by a passenger stage corporation for assisting a physically disabled or handicapped person in using its transportation service is, for purposes of subdivision (a), a part of the same transportation or service offered to passengers who are not physically disabled or handicapped, and is not a separate service for which an additional charge may be made. Nothing in this section, however, requires a passenger stage corporation to furnish any equipment or assistance for a physically disabled or handicapped person different from or in addition to that which may be required under any other law.(Added by renumbering Section 460.5 (as added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 794) by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1360, Sec. 130.)
CA Pub Util Code § 460.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 460.7.

460.7.  (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every passenger stage corporation shall file with the commission one of the following:(1) A certificate of workers’ compensation coverage for its employees issued by an admitted insurer.(2) A certification of consent to self-insure issued by the Director of Industrial Relations, and the identity of the administrator of the carrier’s workers’ compensation self-insurance plan.(3) A statement under penalty of perjury, stating that, in its operations as a passenger stage corporation, it does not employ any person in any manner so as to become subject to the workers’ compensation laws of this state.(b) The workers’ compensation certified to under paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) shall be effective until canceled. Cancellation shall require 30 days’ advance notice.(c) If, after filing the statement described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), the corporation becomes subject to the workers’ compensation laws of this state, the corporation shall promptly notify the commission that the corporation is withdrawing its statement under paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), and shall simultaneously file the certificate described in either paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (a).(d) The commission may adopt rules and regulations that it determines to be necessary to carry out this section.(Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1240, Sec. 1.3.)
CA Pub Util Code § 461.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 461.2.

461.2.  For purposes of establishing rates for a telephone or telegraph corporation, the commission shall include all revenues and expenses of the corporation from the installation and maintenance of that simple inside wiring which is subject to the order of the Federal Communications Commission deregulating that wiring (CC Docket No. 79-105, FCC 86-63; 51 F.R. 8498, March 12, 1986).(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 400, Sec. 1. Effective September 3, 1987.)
CA Pub Util Code § 461.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 3 - Rights and Obligations of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 1 - Rates|Section 461.5.

461.5.  (a) (1) No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or in the facilities for the transportation of the same classes of freight or passengers within this state. It shall be unlawful for any railroad or other transportation company to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance, or to charge any greater compensation as a through rate than the aggregate of the intermediate rates.(2) Upon application to the commission company may be authorized by the commission to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of persons or property and the commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such company may be relieved from the prohibition to charge less for the longer than for the shorter haul. The commission may authorize the issuance of excursion and commutation tickets at special rates.(3) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent the commission from ordering and compelling any railroad or other transportation company to make reparation to any shipper on account of the rates charged to such shipper being excessive or discriminatory, provided no discrimination will result from such reparation.(b) Subdivision (a) is not applicable to network railroad transportation.(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 1005, Sec. 19. Effective January 1, 2000.)