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2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes › Section 7933.

7933. The rate structure of any call originating in or made to an area code shall not change with the split of an area code into two or more area codes, regardless of the number of digits dialed.
(Added by renumbering Section 7932 by Stats. 1998, Ch. 534, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes › Section 7934.

7934. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) The number of area codes in this state has more than doubled since 1991.
(b) The proliferation of area codes has caused undue hardship on citizens of this state, who have begun to be forced into new area codes after years of having the same telephone number.
(c) That proliferation has substantially increased costs to businesses, individuals, and government agencies.
(d) New area codes require the replacement of business cards and letterhead stationery, and companies must use employee time contacting their customers to ensure that those customers are able to continue to reach the affected company.
(e) The proliferation of area codes has also reduced worker productivity as employees begin using new and unfamiliar area codes.
(f) It is the policy of the Legislature that existing area codes should be preserved for as long as possible.
(g) It is the further policy of the Legislature that the hardship currently experienced by telecommunications customers as a result of the creation of new area codes should be alleviated.
(h) For all of the reasons stated above, it is necessary for the commission, as a public agency, to take all possible measures to protect area codes as a public resource, stop area code proliferation, and review their existing practice of establishing new area code regions and the creation of area code overlays.
(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 809, Sec. 2. Effective October 10, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes › Section 7935.

7935. (a) The commission shall develop and implement any measures it determines to be available for telephone corporations that possess prefixes to efficiently allocate telephone numbers within those prefixes. The commission shall consider the cost effectiveness of these measures before requiring implementation. Among the measures the commission shall consider are rate center consolidation, allocation of numbers in blocks smaller than 10,000, and unassigned number porting.
(b) For the purpose of this section, in accordance with the North American Numbering Plan, a telephone number consists of a three digit area code or number plan area (NPA), a three digit prefix or NXX code, and a four digit line number.
(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 809, Sec. 3. Effective October 10, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes › Section 7936.

7936. The commission shall direct the North American Numbering Plan Administrator to obtain utilization data for any area code for which a relief plan is proposed, prior to adopting a plan for, or setting a date for, relief.
(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 809, Sec. 4. Effective October 10, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes › Section 7938.

7938. The commission shall require, as an interim measure until the commission develops procedures for number pooling or adopts utilization standards, that number assignments made by telephone corporations to their customers shall be made first from prefixes that are more than 25 percent in use. A telephone corporation may assign numbers from prefixes with less than 25 percent use only to the extent necessary, if numbers from prefixes that are more than 25 percent in use are not otherwise available.
(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 809, Sec. 6. Effective October 10, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes › Section 7939.

7939. (a) If the commission or an authorized federal agency establishes a process to ensure that telephone numbers can be allocated in blocks smaller than 10,000, the commission shall require that a telephone corporation return to the North American Numbering Plan Administrator blocks of telephone numbers for reassignment, in a quantity determined by the commission.
(b) The commission shall direct the North American Numbering Plan Administrator to seek the return of blocks of numbers smaller than 10,000 not in use. The commission, for purposes of this section, shall define “not in use.”
(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 809, Sec. 7. Effective October 10, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes › Section 7940.

7940. A telephone corporation doing business in this state that possesses one or more telephone number prefixes, or portions thereof, shall provide to the commission or its agent, upon request, use information pertaining to both those prefixes in use and those prefixes not in use, according to any schedule established by the commission.
(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 809, Sec. 8. Effective October 10, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 3.5 - New Area Codes › Section 7943.

7943. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that when the commission has no reasonable alternative other than to create a new area code, that the commission do so in a way that creates the least inconvenience for customers.
(b) The commission shall request that the Federal Communications Commission grant authority for the commission to order telephone corporations to assign telephone numbers dedicated to mobile telephony service and mobile data service, as defined in Section 224.4, to a separate area code and to permit seven digit dialing within that technology-specific area code and the underlying preexisting area code or codes.
(c) Before approving any new area code, the commission shall first perform a telephone utilization study and implement all reasonable telephone number conservation measures.
(d) If the commission receives the grant of authority set forth in subdivision (b) and determines that further area code relief is needed, the commission shall exercise the authority granted to it in subdivision (b) unless it finds at least one of the following:
(1) Exercising the authority granted by subdivision (b) would be more disruptive to the customers where area code relief has been determined to be necessary.
(2) Exercising the authority granted by subdivision (b) will not adequately extend the life of the area code where relief has been determined to be necessary.
(e) The commission may not implement any authority granted by the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to subdivision (b), in a manner that impairs the ability of a customer to have number portability.
(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 198, Sec. 25. Effective January 1, 2007.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 4 - Injury to Public Utility Property › Section 7951.

7951. Any person who wilfully and maliciously does any injury to telegraph or telephone or electric power or gas property is liable to the corporation for three times the amount of actual damages sustained thereby, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 4 - Injury to Public Utility Property › Section 7952.

7952. Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper care, any necessary or useful facility or equipment of any telegraph, telephone, electrical, or gas corporation, is liable to the corporation for all damages sustained thereby. The measure of damages to the facility or equipment injured or destroyed shall be the cost to repair or replace the property injured or destroyed including direct and allocated costs for labor, materials, supervision, supplies, tools, taxes, transportation, administrative and general expense and other indirect or overhead expenses, less credit, if any, for salvage, as determined by such telegraph, telephone, electrical or gas corporations in conformity with a system of accounts established by the commission. The specifying of the measure of damages for the facility or equipment shall not preclude the recovery of such other damages occasioned thereby as may be authorized by law.
Any vessel which, by dragging its anchor, or otherwise, breaks, injures or destroys any underwater cable of a telegraph, telephone or electrical corporation or pipeline of a gas corporation, subjects its owner to liability for the damages sustained thereby.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 709.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 4 - Injury to Public Utility Property › Section 7953.

7953. No telegraph, telephone, electrical or gas corporation can recover damages for the breaking, injury or destruction of any underwater cable or gas pipeline, unless the corporation has previously placed a marker on the bank of the waters under which the cable or pipeline is placed, indicating the place where the cable or pipeline lies.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 709.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 1 - Definitions › Section 8001.

8001. Unless the particular provisions or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 1 - Definitions › Section 8002.

8002. “Person” includes any commission, officer, agent, or employee of this State, or of any county, city, city and county, or other political subdivision thereof, and any other person, firm, or corporation.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8026.

8026. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any wire or cable used to conduct electricity, on any pole, or any crossarm, bracket, or other appliance attached to such pole, within a distance of 13 inches from the center line of the pole.
This section does not apply to signal wires or cables which are attached to a pole to which is attached no wire or cable other than signal wires or cables, except within the corporate limits of a city, nor shall this section apply to such wires or cables where they are placed vertically on poles, nor to bridle or jumper wires on any pole which are attached to signal wires on the same pole, nor to any aerial cable, as between such cable and any pole on which it originates or terminates.
Telephone toll lines may be exempt from the provisions of this section if proper evidence introduced before the commission proves to the satisfaction of the commission, that compliance would seriously interfere with long distance telephone transmission.
This section does not apply to wires run from lead wires to arc or incandescent lamps nor to transformers placed upon poles, nor to any wire or cable where it is attached to the top of a pole, as between it and the pole, nor to any aerial cable containing signal wires where the cable is attached to a pole on which no other wires or cables than wires continuing from the cable are maintained if electric light or power wires or cables are not maintained on the same side of the street or highway on which the aerial cable is placed.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8027.

8027. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain in the vicinity of any pole (and unattached thereto) within the distance of 13 inches from the center line of the pole, any wire or cable used to conduct electricity, or place, erect or maintain any pole (to which is attached any wire or cable used to conduct electricity) within the distance of 13 inches (measured from the center of such pole) from any wire or cable used to conduct or carry electricity. As between any wire or cable and any pole, only the wire, cable, or pole last in point of time run, placed, or erected, shall be held to be run, placed, erected, or maintained in violation of the provisions of this section.
This section does not apply to signal wires, or cables on poles to which are attached no other wires, as between such wires and poles to which are attached no other wires or cables than signal wires if such wires, cables, and poles are not within the corporate limits of a city.
Telephone toll lines may be exempt from this section if proper evidence introduced before the commission proves to the satisfaction of the commission, that compliance would seriously interfere with long distance telephone transmission.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8028.

8028. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain, above ground, within four feet from any wire or cable conducting less than 600 volts of electricity, any wire or cable which conducts at any one time more than 600 volts of electricity, or run, place, erect, or maintain within four feet from any wire or cable which conducts at any one time more than 600 volts of electricity any wire or cable conducting or carrying less than 600 volts of electricity.
This section does not apply to wires or cables attached to a transformer, arc or incandescent lamp within four feet (measured along the line of the wire or cable) from the point where such wire or cable is attached to such transformer, arc or incandescent lamp, nor to wires or cables within buildings or other structures, nor to wires or cables where they are placed vertically on poles, or to any lead wires or cables between the points where they are made to leave any pole for the purpose of entering any building or other structure and the point at which they are made to enter such building or structure.
As between any two wires or cables, or any wire or any cable, run, placed, erected, or maintained in violation of this section, only the wire or cable last in point of time run, placed, or erected shall be held to be run, placed, erected, or maintained thus in violation of this section.
Where no more than one crossarm is maintained on a pole, all the wires or cables conducting at any one time more than 600 volts of electricity shall be placed on the crossarm on one side of the pole, and all the wires or cables conducting less than 600 volts of electricity shall be placed on the crossarm on the other side of the pole. The space between any wire or cable conducting at any one time more than 600 volts of electricity and any wire or cable conducting less than that voltage shall be at least 36 inches clear measurement in a horizontal line.
Where the provisions of this section cannot be complied with, the commission may grant permission for the following form of construction; where two or more systems for the distribution of electric light or power occupy the same poles with wires or cables, all wires or cables conducting at any one time more than 600 volts of electricity may be placed on the crossarms on one side of the pole, and all wires or cables conducting less than that voltage, shall in such case, be placed on the crossarms on the other side of the pole; the space between any wire or cable conducting at any one time more than 600 volts of electricity and any wire or cable conducting or carrying less than that voltage shall be at least 36 inches in measurement in a horizontal line; and in such construction all crossarms shall be at least 36 inches apart in a vertical line.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8029.

8029. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any wire or cable which conducts at any one time more than 600 volts of electricity, without causing each crossarm, or such other appliance as is used in lieu thereof, to which such wire or cable is attached to be kept at all times painted a bright yellow color, or, on such crossarm, or other appliance used in lieu thereof, shall be placed signs, providing, in white letters on a green background, not less than three (3) inches in height the words “high voltage” on the face and back of each crossarm. The provisions of this section do not apply to crossarms to which are attached wires or cables conducting more than 10,000 volts of electricity, and which are situated outside the corporate limits of a city.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8029.5.

8029.5. No person shall place, erect, or maintain on any pole any transformer, capacitor, or other electrical device containing polychlorinated biphenyls for transforming electric current, when the pole or transformer is required to be marked pursuant to applicable regulations of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, unless the person owning or controlling the pole on which the device is situated, upon request of any fire protection agency within the person’s electrical service area, either marks the pole with a reflective band specified by the fire protection agency or furnishes to the fire protection agency the location of every pole within the fire protection agency on which such a device is located, at the person’s option.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 549, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8030.

8030. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any guy wire or guy cable attached to any pole or appliance to which is attached any wire or cable used to conduct electricity, without causing the guy wire or guy cable to be effectively insulated at all times at a distance of not less than four (4) feet nor more than eight (8) feet (measured along the line of the wire or cable) from the upper end thereof, and at a point not less than eight (8) feet vertically above the ground from the lower end thereof. Where two or more guy wires or guy cables are attached to the same pole and same anchorage pole there shall be at least one foot, vertical space, between the points of attachment. No insulation shall be required at the lower end of a guy wire or guy cable where it is attached to a grounded anchor. Where guy wires or guy cables are attached to a pole or structure of steel or other conducting material supporting wires or cables conducting in excess of 15,000 volts where the pole or structure is thoroughly grounded no insulation shall be required at any point in the guy wire or guy cable.
This section does not apply to guy wires or guy cables attached to poles carrying no wire or cable other than signal wires or cables and which are situated outside the corporate limits of a city.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8031.

8031. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain vertically on any pole any wire or cable used to conduct electricity, without causing such wire or cable to be at all times wholly incased in a casing equal in durability and insulating efficiency to a wooded casing not less than one and one-half inches thick.
This section does not apply to vertical signal wires or cables on poles where no other such wires or cables are maintained, and which are outside the corporate limits of a city, nor to wires or cables run vertically on iron poles or structures where both pole or structure and conduit are securely grounded.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8032.

8032. No person shall place, erect, or maintain on any pole, or any crossarm or other appliance on the pole, which carries or upon which is placed an electric arc lamp, any transformer for transforming electric currents. This section shall not apply if the arc lamp is suspended so that it can be trimmed from the ground or from a stand located on the pole not less than seven feet below the transformer, and in so suspending the arc lamp no wire or cable in connection therewith is run vertically on the pole unless the wire or cable is protected as provided for in Section 8031.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8033.

8033. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any wire or cable carrying more than 15,000 volts of electricity across any wire or cable carrying less than that voltage or across any public highway, except on a pole of such height and so placed at each crossing that under no circumstances can the wire or cable of a voltage higher than 15,000 volts in case of breakage thereof or otherwise, come in contact with any wire or cable of less than that voltage, or fall within a distance of ten (10) feet from the surface of any public highway; or in lieu thereof double strength construction may be installed, in which case the wires carrying a voltage higher than 15,000 volts shall, between the points of crossing, be of a cross-section area equal to at least twice that used in the line outside of such crossing, except where the conductor used is equal to number four (4) stranded Brown and Sharpe gauge or greater, in which case the wires or cables will be considered as complying with the law.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8034.

8034. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any suspension wire to which is attached any aerial cable of 75 pair No. 19 Brown and Sharpe gauge or over, or of 100 pair No. 22 Brown and Sharpe gauge or over suspended from a crossarm, or from any other structure or appliance from which the suspension wire is hung, by a single bolt and clamp without at the same time attaching the suspension wire to the crossarms, structure, or appliance by an additional safety bolt and clamp, or other safety appliance for thus attaching the suspension wire of tensile strength equal to the first bolt and clamp.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8035.

8035. None of the provisions of Sections 8026 to 8034, inclusive, apply to direct current electric wires or cables having the same polarity, nor to signal wires when no more than two (2) of such signal wires are attached to any one pole, but no such direct current or signal wires shall in any case be run, placed, erected, or maintained within the distance of thirteen (13) inches from the center line of any pole other than the pole or poles on which the wires or cables are carried, carrying electric wires or cables. As between any two wires, or cables, or any wire or cable run, placed, erected, or maintained in violation of this section, only the wire or cable last in point of time run, placed, erected, or maintained shall be held to be run, placed, erected, or maintained thus in violation of this section.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8036.

8036. No person shall run, place, erect, or maintain any span wire attached to any wire or cable used to conduct electricity, without causing the span wire to be at all times effectively insulated between the outer point at which it is in any case fastened to the pole or other structure by which it is hung or supported, and at the point at which it is in any case thus attached. Such insulation shall not in any case be placed less than two (2) feet or more than four (4) feet from the point at which the span wire is so attached. When in any case such span wire is attached along its length to any two (2) such wires or cables, conducting electricity and extending parallel to each other, not more than eighteen (18) feet apart, such insulation shall not be required therein at any point between such parallel wires or cables. This section does not apply where feeder wires are used in place of span wires.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 2 - Surface Transmission › Section 8037.

8037. The commission may grant such additional time and shall inspect all work which is included in the provisions of this article, and may make such further additions or changes as the commission deems necessary for the purpose of safety to employees and the general public. The commission shall enforce the provisions of this article.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 3 - Underground Transmission › Section 8051.

8051. No person shall build or rebuild any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room used or to be used to contain, encase, cover, or conduct any wire, cable, or appliance, to conduct or handle electricity, unless such subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room has an inside measurement of not less than four feet at the maximum points between the side walls thereof, and between the end walls thereof, and not less than five feet at all points between the floor and the top or ceiling thereof, or if circular in shape, at least four feet diameter inside measurement and not less than five feet at all points between the floor and ceiling thereof. This section does not apply to any such subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room, within which it is not intended or required that any human being perform work or labor or be employed. This section does not apply where satisfactory proof is submitted to the commission that it is impracticable or physically impossible to comply with this law within the space or location so designated by the proper municipal authorities.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 3 - Underground Transmission › Section 8052.

8052. No person shall build or rebuild in any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room used or to be used to contain, encase, cover, or conduct any wire, cable, or appliance to conduct or handle electricity, any opening to outer air which is less than 26 inches if circular in shape, or less than 24 inches by 26 inches clear measurement if rectangular in shape.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 3 - Underground Transmission › Section 8053.

8053. No person shall build or rebuild in any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room, used or to be used to contain, encase, cover, or conduct any wire, cable, or appliance to conduct or handle electricity, any opening which is at the surface of the ground, within the distance of three feet at any point from the rail of any railway or streetcar track. This section does not apply where satisfactory proof is submitted to the commission that it is impracticable or physically impossible to comply with this law in the space or location so designated by the proper municipal authorities.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 3 - Underground Transmission › Section 8054.

8054. No person shall build or rebuild any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room, used or to be used, to contain, encase, cover, or conduct any wire, cable, or appliance to conduct or handle electricity unless the floor of the subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room is made of stone, concrete, brick, or other similar material not subject to decomposition. This section does not apply to any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room within which it is not intended or required that any human being perform work or labor or be employed.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 3 - Underground Transmission › Section 8055.

8055. No person shall build or rebuild or maintain any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room used, or to be used, to contain, encase, cover, or conduct any wire, cable, or appliance to conduct or handle electricity, unless such subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room is kept at all times in a sanitary condition and free from stagnant water, seepage, or other drainage, or any offensive matter dangerous to health, either by sewer connection or otherwise. This section does not apply to any subway, manhole, chamber, or underground room within which it is not intended or required that any human being perform work or labor, or be employed.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 5 - Electrical Line Construction › ARTICLE 3 - Underground Transmission › Section 8056.

8056. The commission may inspect all work which is included in the provisions of this article, and may make such further additions or changes as the commission deems necessary for the purpose of safety to employees and the general public. The commission shall enforce the provisions of this article.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 6 - Electric Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Designation by Public Utilities Commission › Section 8101.

8101. Under certain conditions the sale and distribution of electric power and energy in the same geographical area both by an electrical utility and by an irrigation district, results in duplication of service, waste of materials, increase in costs, waste of manpower and economic loss, and is detrimental to the efficiency and best interests of such districts. It is the policy of this State to induce such utilities and irrigation districts to prevent or remove such economic waste and to adopt more efficient and economic methods of distribution of electric power and energy, and to that end encourage the definition of areas to be served or not to be served by each.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 6 - Electric Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Designation by Public Utilities Commission › Section 8102.

8102. Any utility may petition the commission setting forth in its petition the following:
(a) That the petitioner and an irrigation district formed under the laws of this State are both engaged or propose to engage in the sale and distribution of electric power and energy in the described area or areas or in contiguous areas, or that the petitioner proposes to sell an electric distribution system in a described area, to such irrigation district.
(b) That the petitioner and irrigation district are desirous of entering into a contract in which, among other things, and as one of the considerations therefor, they consent to the limitation of areas which each are to serve or are to be excluded from serving.
(c) A copy of the contract or proposed contract.
(d) A description of the respective areas that the limitations will affect and the terms of the contract, if any, or the conditions, if any, existing in connection with such limitations or the sale or acquisition of a utility distribution system.
(e) A prayer that the commission issue its order limiting the area or areas within which the petitioner may, directly or indirectly, sell or distribute electric power or energy or define the area or areas within which the petitioner shall not sell or distribute electric power or energy as indicated in the petition and set forth in a contract or proposed contract.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 6 - Electric Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Designation by Public Utilities Commission › Section 8103.

8103. Thereupon, the commission shall cause an investigation to be made and may conduct such hearings in connection therewith as it considers desirable.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 6 - Electric Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Designation by Public Utilities Commission › Section 8104.

8104. If the commission finds that it is for the best interests of the State and of the utility, and not incompatible with any public interest that the petition be granted, it shall make and issue its order limiting the area or areas within which the utility shall have the right and authority to sell or distribute electric power or energy, directly or indirectly, or define the area or areas within which the utility shall not have the right or authority to sell or distribute electric power or energy, directly or indirectly. The commission may, in its order, approve and thereby authorize the contract or conditions, if any, in connection therewith. No limitation or definition of area or areas or statement of conditions shall be included in the order except as contained in the petition and contract.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 6 - Electric Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Designation by Public Utilities Commission › Section 8106.

8106. Where limitation of areas to be served or limitations or designations of areas not to be served by the utility and by an irrigation district have heretofore been approved or are hereafter approved by the commission they shall be deemed to have complied with this article.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 6 - Electric Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Designation by Public Utilities Commission › Section 8107.

8107. In any civil or criminal action or proceeding for violation of the Cartwright Act (Chapter 530, Statues of 1907), Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code, or any rule of statutory or common law against monopolies or combinations in restraint of trade, proof that the act complained of was done in compliance with this article or an order issued under it and in furtherance of the purposes and provisions of this article is a complete defense in such action or proceeding.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 6 - Electric Service Areas › ARTICLE 1 - Designation by Public Utilities Commission › Section 8108.

8108. If, in any contract submitted and approved by the commission or in any order made by the commission pursuant to application and petition as in this article provided, it is provided that the utility is not to serve or furnish electric energy in a specified area or areas, or is to furnish or serve electric energy under limited or specified circumstances only, or is to refrain from serving or furnishing electric energy in certain specified areas or under certain specified circumstances or under certain specified limitations, then, from and after the effective date of such order of the commission, it shall be unlawful for the utility to serve electric energy in any area or in any manner which the contract and order provides that service shall not be rendered, and the affected district shall be entitled, as a matter of right, to an injunction to prevent any such unlawful act on the part of the utility.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 1 - Adequate Water Service › Section 8201.

8201. Any water company having a franchise to use the streets of a city, shall properly and adequately serve with water the inhabitants of the territory for the service of which it has such franchise.
As used in this section, to “properly and adequately serve with water” includes furnishing water of a quality meeting or exceeding standards established by the State Department of Health pursuant to Section 4026 of the Health and Safety Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 229.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 1 - Adequate Water Service › Section 8202.

8202. If the commission has jurisdiction of extensions and service in the city it shall enforce a compliance with Section 8201. If the commission does not have such jurisdiction, then the governing body of the city shall adopt rules to enforce a compliance with Section 8201.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 1 - Adequate Water Service › Section 8203.

8203. In addition to the penalties which may be provided by the governing body of a city for failure to comply with such regulations adopted by it, any person aggrieved by the failure of any water company to comply with such regulations may recover, by civil action against such water company, twice the amount of damages he may sustain by reason of such failure.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 1 - Adequate Water Service › Section 8204.

8204. “Water company” as used in this article, includes any person, firm, or private corporation engaged in the business of supplying water for domestic use within any city.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 2 - Railroad and Steamboat Police › Section 8226.

8226. The Governor of the state may, upon the application of any railroad company, appoint and commission during his or her pleasure one or more persons designated by the company, to serve at the expense of the company, as police officers, who shall have the powers and authority of peace officers listed in Section 830.33 of the Penal Code, after being duly sworn. The company designating these persons shall be responsible civilly for any abuse of their authority.
(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 82, Sec. 16. Effective May 3, 1990.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 2 - Railroad and Steamboat Police › Section 8227.

8227. Every peace officer designated under Section 8226 shall, when in uniform, wear in plain view a shield bearing the words “railroad police,” and the name of the company for which he or she is commissioned. When on duty, but not in uniform, the peace officer shall carry the shield upon his or her person and present it upon request.
(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 82, Sec. 17. Effective May 3, 1990.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 3 - Use of Spotter Reports › Section 8251.

8251. It is unlawful for any public service corporation, or agent, superintendent, or manager thereof, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as a “spotter,” for the purpose of investigating, obtaining, and reporting to the employer information concerning its employees, to discipline or discharge any employee, where such act of discipline or the discharge is based upon a report by such special agent, detective, or spotter, which report involves a question of integrity, honesty, or a breach of rules of the employer, unless such employer, its agent, superintendent, or manager, gives notice and accords a hearing to the employee thus accused, when requested by the employee. At such hearing the employer shall state specific charges on which act of discipline or discharge is based, and the accused employee shall have the right to furnish testimony in his defense.
(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 3 - Use of Spotter Reports › Section 8252.

8252. Each violation of this article by any person, firm, association, or corporation is a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not more than six hundred dollars ($600), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In case of a public service corporation committing any violation of this article, the imprisonment when imposed shall be imposed upon the officers or agents thereof committing such offense.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 362. Effective September 27, 1983. Operative January 1, 1984, by Sec. 427 of Ch. 1092.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 4 - Retirement Fund Investment Losses › Section 8276.

8276. The commission shall prohibit any public utility that has any retirement funds invested in the government of Libya, or in any corporation based in that country, from including in its plant operating budget any losses incurred as a result of those investments.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 31, Sec. 6. Effective March 30, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 4 - Retirement Fund Investment Losses › Section 8277.

8277. The commission shall require every public utility to provide the commission with a list of its retirement fund investments in the government of Libya, or in any corporation based in that country.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 31, Sec. 7. Effective March 30, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 4 - Retirement Fund Investment Losses › Section 8278.

8278. The commission shall verify the accuracy of the information provided pursuant to Section 8277, and shall disallow any losses incurred as a result of investments in the government of Libya, or in any corporation based in that country, in establishing rates for the public utility.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 31, Sec. 8. Effective March 30, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Public Utilities Code - PUC › DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations › ARTICLE 4 - Retirement Fund Investment Losses › Section 8279.

8279. This article does not prevent the commission from applying this article to public utility retirement fund investments in other countries such as, but not limited to, Libya, if comparable conditions warrant that application.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 31, Sec. 9. Effective March 30, 1994.)