BILL NUMBER: SB 597	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Fuller

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 2701 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to water companies.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 597, as introduced, Fuller. Water companies.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities. Existing law, with certain
exceptions, provides that any person, firm, corporation, their
lessees, trustees, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court
whatsoever, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any water
system within this State, who sells, leases, rents, or delivers water
to any person, firm, corporation, municipality, or any other
political subdivision of the State, whether under contract or
otherwise, is a public utility, and is subject to the provisions of
the Public Utilities Act and to the jurisdiction, control, and
regulation of the commission.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
above-described provision making every person, firm, or corporation,
their lessees, trustees, receivers, or trustees appointed by any
court, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any water system
within the state subject to the jurisdiction, control, and regulation
of the commission.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2701 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   2701.  Any person, firm, or corporation, their lessees, trustees,
receivers ,  or trustees appointed by any court 
whatsoever  , owning,  controlling, 
operating,  or  managing  , or otherwise
controlling  any water system within  this State
  the state  ,  who   that
 sells, leases, rents, or delivers water to any person, firm,
corporation, municipality, or any other political subdivision of the
 State   state  , whether under contract or
otherwise, is a public utility, and is subject to the provisions of
Part 1  (commencing with Section 201)  of Division 1 and to
the jurisdiction, control, and regulation of the commission, except
as otherwise provided in this chapter.