Public Utilities Code: Before codification in 1951, issues relating to utilities, rights, obligations, regulation, hearings, and violations could be traced to California’s earliest legislative history in the 1800s in numerous enactments that related to railroads and other common carriers, operations, tariffs, rates and rebates, telephones and telegraphs, and the Railroad Commission. Currently, the range of topics within this Code has been expanded to include, just to name a few, natural gas restructuring, private energy producers, telecommunication services, and specific municipal utility districts and transit authorities.
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Public Utilities Code Sections
Section 218: Derived from former uncodified § 2, enacted in the 1911 First Extraordinary Session.
Section 315: Derived from former uncodified § 4, enacted in 1878.
Section 331.1: Enacted in 2002.
Section 362: Enacted in 1996.
Section 366.2: Enacted in 2002.
Section 451: Derived from former uncodified § 31, enacted in 1909.
Section 455.5: Enacted in 1986.
Sections 493 and 494: Derived from former uncodified § 2, enacted in 1877-78.
Section 851: Derived from former uncodified § 51, enacted in 1915.
Section 854: Enacted in 1971.
Section 1759: Derived from former uncodified § 67, enacted in the 1911 First Extraordinary Session.
Section 2106: Derived from former former uncodified §§ 21 and 38, enacted in 1909.
Section 2827: Enacted in 1995.
Section 2891: Added in 1986 and amended four times thereafter.
Section 2891.1: Added in 1989 and amended five time thereafter.
Section 2894: Added in 1992 and amended in 1993, 1999 and 2006.
Section 5371.4: Enacted in 1990.
Sections 6201 through 6302: Derived from numerous former uncodified §§ , enacted in 1937 as the Franchise Act.
Section 6232: Derived from former uncodified § 8, 2nd sentence, enacted in 1937.
Section 7537: Derived from former Civil Code § 485a, enacted in 1915.
Section 7952: Derived from former uncodified § 152, enacted in 1850.
Section 9608: Enacted in 2000.
Section 10009.6: Added in 1989.
Section 12820: Derived from former Public Utilities Code § 12819, enacted in 1974.
Sections 24501 through 125716: Transit Districts in Counties of Alameda or Contra Costa (Division 10, Part 1), enacted in 1955.
Sections 24501 through 125716: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Division 10, Part 2), enacted in 1957.
Sections 30000 through 40600: Southern California Rapid Transit District (Division 10, Part 3), enacted in the 1964 First Extraordinary Session.
Sections 30000 through 40600: Orange County Transit District (Division 10, Part 4), enacted in 1965.
Sections 60000 through 80010: San Joaquin Regional Transit District (Division 10, Part 5), enacted in 1963.
Sections 60000 through 80010: Yolo County Transportation District (Division 10, Part 6), enacted in 1996.
Sections 60000 through 80010: Marin County Transit District (Division 10, Part 7), enacted in the 1964 First Extraordinary Session.
Sections 90000 through 97007: San Diego County Transit District (Division 10, Part 8), enacted in 1965.
Sections 90000 through 97007: Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (Division 10, Part 9), enacted in 1965.
Sections 98000 through 99696: Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (Division 10, Part 10), enacted in 1967.
Sections 98000 through 99696: Provisions Applicable to all Public Transit Districts (Division 10, Part 11), enacted in 1968.
Sections 100000 through 102700: Santa Clara County Transit District (Division 10, Part 12), enacted in 1969.
Sections 100000 through 102700: Golden Empire Transit District (Division 10, Part 13), enacted in 1971.
Sections 100000 through 102700: Sacramento Regional Transit District (Division 10, Part 14), enacted in 1971.
Sections 100300 through 125716: San Mateo County Transit District (Division 10, Part 15), enacted in 1974.
Sections 100300 through 125716: Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District (Division 10, Part 16), enacted in 2002.
Sections 100300 through 125716: Monterey-Salinas Transit District (Division 10, Part 17), enacted in 2009.
Sections 100300 through 125716: Transit Development Boards (Division 11), enacted in 1975.
Sections 100300 through 125716: North San Diego County Transit Development Board (Division 11.5), enacted in 1975.
Section 130254: Added in 1976 and amended in 1977.
Section 130254.5: Added in 1977.
Section 130680: Enacted in 1997.