[1961 Code, § 8.3; Ord. 573]
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CORPORATION
A corporation, company, association, district or political subdivision of the state and a joint stock association.
ELECTRICAL CORPORATION
Every corporation or person or district or political subdivision owning, controlling, operating or managing any electric plant for compensation within this state, except where electricity is generated on or distributed by the producer through private property alone solely for his or her own use or the use of his or her tenants and not for sale to others.
ELECTRIC PLANT
All real estate, fixtures and personal property owned, controlled operated or managed in connection with or to facilitate the production, generation, transmission, delivery or furnishing of electricity for light, heat or power and all conduits, ducts or other devices, materials, apparatus or property for containing, holding or carrying conductors used or to be used for the transmission of electricity for light, heat or power.
PUBLIC OR ANY PORTION THEREOF
The public generally, or any limited portion of the public, including a person, private corporation or other entity for which service is performed or to which the commodity is delivered.
PUBLIC UTILITY
Any district formed pursuant to Cal. Water Code div. 11, part 2 or other municipal corporation or governmental agency of the state or electrical corporation engaged in selling or delivering within the city electrical power service, either directly or for resale to the public or any portion thereof. The term shall not, for the purpose of this chapter, mean any utility or agency subject to the jurisdiction, control and regulation of the Public Utilities Commission of the state.
RATES
Rates and charges, unless the context indicates otherwise.
[1961 Code, § 8.1; Ord. 573]
In accordance with Cal. Water Code § 22123, the City Council hereby establishes the following basic rules and regulations covering any district providing electric power within the limits of the city without limiting the same to those rules and regulations hereinafter set forth but in addition, incorporating herein any and all rules and regulations heretofore or hereafter adopted by the Public Utilities Commission of the state as may be more specifically adopted by resolution of the City Council, either setting the same forth in full or by reference to the existing rule of the Public Utilities Commission.
[1961 Code, § 8.4; Ord. 573]
(A) 
Every public utility shall furnish to the City Council in the form and detail as the Council prescribes all tabulations, computations, maps, profiles, agreements, contracts, franchises, reports, books, accounts, papers, records or other document or information in any way reflecting on the operation of the utility or relating to its property or affecting its business in such form and at such time as the Council may direct.
(B) 
No information furnished to the Council by the public utility, except matters as are specifically required to be open to public inspection by the provisions of this chapter, shall be open to public inspection or made public except on order of the Council. Any officer or employee of the city or any member of the Council who divulges any such information, except that which is authorized to be open to the public, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(C) 
The Council may establish any further rules and regulations deemed necessary by the Council for the furnishing of the information above set forth or may require, as is deemed necessary, the public utility to maintain certain prescribed forms of accounts, records, including but not limited to proper and adequate depreciation and inventories.
[1961 Code, § 8.5; Ord. 573]
(A) 
The City Council may supervise and regulate every public utility in the city and may do all things, whether specifically designated in this chapter or in addition thereto, which are necessary and convenient in the exercise of power and jurisdiction.
(B) 
Every public utility shall obey and comply with every order, decision, direction or rule made or prescribed by the Council in the matters specified in this chapter, or any other matter in any way relating to or affecting its business as a public utility and shall do everything necessary or proper to secure compliance therewith by all of its officers, agents and employees.
(C) 
When the Council, after a hearing, finds that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities or service of any public utility or the methods of manufacture, distribution, transmission, storage or supply employed by it are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper, inadequate or insufficient, the Council shall determine and by order or rule fix the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, service or methods to be observed, furnished, constructed, enforced or employed. The Council shall prescribe rules for the performance of any service or the furnishing of any commodity of the character furnished or supplied by any public utility and shall furnish the commodity or render the service within the time and upon the conditions provided in those rules.
(D) 
When the Council, after a hearing, finds that additions, extensions, repairs or improvements to or changes in the existing plant, equipment, apparatus, facilities or other physical property of any public utility or of any two or more public utilities ought reasonably to be made or that new structures should be erected, to promote the security or convenience of its employees or the public or in any other way to secure adequate service or facilities, the Council shall make and serve an order directing that the additions, extensions, repairs, improvements or changes be made or the structures be erected in the manner and within the time specified in the order. If the Council orders the erection of a new structure it may also fix the site thereof. If the order requires joint action by two or more public utilities, the Commission shall so notify them and shall fix a reasonable time within which they may agree upon the portion or division of the cost which each shall bear. If, at the expiration of the time the public utilities fail to file with the Council a statement that an agreement has been made for a division or apportionment of the cost, the Council may, after further hearing, make an order fixing the proportion of that cost to be borne by the public utility and the manner in which payment shall be made or secured.
(E) 
The Council may, after a hearing, by general or special orders, rules or otherwise, require every public utility to construct, maintain and operate its line, plant, system, equipment, apparatus and premises in such manner as to promote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees, passengers, customers and the public and may prescribed, among other things, the installation, use, maintenance and operation of appropriate safety or other devices or appliance, establish uniform or other standards of construction and equipment and require the performance of any other act which the health or safety of its employees, customers or the public may demand.
(F) 
The Council may, after a hearing, do any and all things as set forth in the Public Utilities Code of the state that may be accomplished by the Public Utilities Commission of the state in its regulation of electrical power companies deemed public utilities in the state.