Cal. PUC § 6205.1
This is the official text of Cal. PUC § 6205.1, part of California’s Public Utilities Code — regulates utilities such as electricity, gas, water, and transportation carriers.
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Official statutory text
(a) Notwithstanding Section 6205, all franchises, licenses, permits, or other privileges granted to a public utility by any city, county, or city and county holding a freeholder’s charter containing provisions for the issuance of franchises, to use, or to construct or lay and use, under, along, across, or upon the public streets, ways, alleys, and places within the municipality, facilities which are part of a pipeline system transmitting oil or products thereof, shall be granted upon the terms and conditions provided in, and in accordance with, either this chapter or Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 6001).
(b) On and after January 1, 1990, the compensation to be paid for the franchises, licenses, permits, or other privileges granted by any city, county, or city and county, including those holding a freeholder’s charter, shall be as provided in Section 6231.5.
(c) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section, to preempt the ordinance of any chartered municipality insofar as that ordinance governs the granting of franchises to construct facilities which are part of a pipeline system transmitting oil or products thereof.
(b) On and after January 1, 1990, the compensation to be paid for the franchises, licenses, permits, or other privileges granted by any city, county, or city and county, including those holding a freeholder’s charter, shall be as provided in Section 6231.5.
(c) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section, to preempt the ordinance of any chartered municipality insofar as that ordinance governs the granting of franchises to construct facilities which are part of a pipeline system transmitting oil or products thereof.
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