California Code of Regulations › Title 20 - Public Utilities and Energy › Division 1 - Public Utilities Commission › Chapter 1 - Rules of Practice and Procedure › Article 8 - Communications with Decisionmakers and Advisors › Section 8.3 - (Rule 8.3) Communications at Conferences

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
This rule governs communications concerning any issue in an
					 adjudicatory, ratesetting, or catastrophic wildfire proceeding between
					 interested persons and decisionmakers at a conference.
(a) Individual oral ex parte communications
				  are subject to the otherwise-applicable requirements of Rule 8.2. Pursuant to
				  Rule 8.2(b), communications regarding adjudicatory proceedings are prohibited
				  and the limited exceptions set forth in (b) and (c) apply only to ratesetting
				  and catastrophic wildfire proceedings.
(b) A decisionmaker's presentation or
				  dialogue during a question and answer session where the audience includes an
				  interested person is not a one-way ex parte communication.
(c) An interested person's presentation or
				  dialogue during a question and answer session where the audience includes a
				  decisionmaker is not an ex parte communication subject to Rule 8.2(c)(2) but
				  must be reported in the same manner as an ex parte communication pursuant to
				  Rule 8.4(a).
1.
					 Renumbering of former section
					 7.1 to new section
					 8.3 filed 9-13-2006; operative
					 9-13-2006 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11351(a)
					 (Register 2006, No. 37). For prior history of section
					 8.3, see Register 98, No.
					 43.
2. Amendment filed 6-4-2009; operative 7-4-2009 (Register 2009,
					 No. 23). Submitted to OAL for limited review pursuant to Government Code
					 section
					 11351 and
					 Public Utilities Code section
					 311(h).
3.
					 Renumbering of former section
					 8.3 to section
					 8.4 and renumbering and amendment
					 of section
					 8.2 to section
					 8.3 filed 5-9-2011; operative
					 6-8-2011. Submitted to OAL for limited review pursuant to Government Code
					 section
					 11351 and
					 Public Utilities Code section
					 311(h)
					 (Register 2011, No. 19).
4. Amendment of subsection (g) filed
					 1-8-2014; operative 4-1-2014. Submitted to OAL for limited review pursuant to
					 Government Code section
					 11351 and
					 Public Utilities Code section
					 311(h)
					 (Register 2014, No. 2).
5. Renumbering of former section
					 8.3 to section
					 8.2 and new section
					 8.3 filed 1-30-2018; operative
					 4-1-2018. Submitted to OAL for limited review pursuant to Government Code
					 section
					 11351 and
					 Public Utilities Code section
					 311(h)
					 (Register 2018, No. 5).
6. Amendment of first paragraph and
					 subsection (a) and amendment of NOTE filed 3-15-2021; operative 5-1-2021
					 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11343.4(b)(3).
					 Submitted to OAL for limited review pursuant to Government Code section
					 11351 and
					 Public Utilities Code section
					 311(h)
					 (Register 2021, No. 12).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						1701
						and
						1701.8,
						Public Utilities Code. Reference: Sections
						1701,
						1701.1
						and
						1701.8,
						Public Utilities Code.