Section 6466.
6466. The power of the State, in the exercise of its police power or otherwise through the instrumentality of the Public Utilities Commission or other agency, to provide at any and all times for the supervision and regulation of public utilities is not affected by any franchise, permit, or privilege granted under this chapter. (Enacted […]
Section 6467.
6467. Nothing in this chapter, nor any provision of any franchise granted under this chapter, shall prevent a city or city and county from acquiring at any time the property of any public utility through the exercise of the right of eminent domain, and no city or county shall contract away, either for a term […]
Section 6353.
6353. For purpose of calculating the surcharge required in Section 6352, the energy transporter shall do all of the following: (a) For each transportation customer, determine the volume of transported gas or electricity, in therms or kilowatt hours respectively, subject to the surcharge. (b) Determine the weighted average cost of the energy transporter’s gas or electricity. For […]
Section 6354.
6354. (a) Surcharges calculated pursuant to Section 6353 shall be recovered from the transportation customer through the energy transporter’s normal billing process. (b) Surcharges collected from the transportation customer shall be remitted to the municipality granting a franchise pursuant to this division in the manner and at the time prescribed for payment of franchise fees in the […]
Section 6354.1.
6354.1. As an alternative to the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 6354, an energy transporter may elect to state on each customer’s bill, including both transportation customers and customers receiving bundled services, the amount of that bill which is attributable to local franchise fee charges. (Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 487, Sec. 4. Effective […]
Section 6451.
6451. The governing or legislative body of any city or city and county having on July 27, 1917, a freeholders’ charter adopted under Section 8 of Article XI of the State Constitution, which charter provides for the resettlement of and the granting of a resettlement franchise to any person, firm, or corporation engaged in operating […]
Section 6452.
6452. The resettlement franchise shall be granted after such publication and upon such notice as the governing or legislative body shall by resolution determine, or failing such determination, after such publication and upon such notice as is prescribed by law for the enactment of ordinances by the governing or legislative body. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, […]
Section 6453.
6453. After the final passage of a resettlement franchise, it shall be referred and submitted to the vote of the electors of the city or city and county at the general or special election next ensuing not less than 20 days after the final passage of the ordinance, or if no general or special election […]
Section 6454.
6454. No resettlement franchise shall go into effect until it has received the approval of a majority of the electors voting thereon and until it has been accepted in writing by the grantee. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
Section 6455.
6455. Every resettlement franchise, permit, or privilege shall confer upon the grantee the right to occupy the roads, streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, lanes, alleys, courts, places, and pathways of the city or city and county, particularly set out in the terms and conditions of the franchise, permit, or privilege, for the purpose of conducting, operating […]