California Public Utilities Code

§ 185501

PUC § 185501 Effective Jun 27, 2013Div. 19.5 · Ch. 5

Statute text

(a)When the authority requires any utility to remove any utility facility lawfully maintained in the right-of-way of any high-speed rail property to a location entirely outside the high-speed rail property right-of-way, the authority shall pay the reasonable and necessary cost of the removal. This includes both the cost of removal and the cost of relocation to a new location outside of the high-speed rail property right-of-way.

(b)This section does not apply to the relocation of a utility facility from one point in a high-speed rail property to another point in that property, including relocation in any service road of the high-speed rail property or from one point of crossing of the high-speed rail property to another reasonable point of crossing.

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 35, Sec. 7. (SB 85) Effective June 27, 2013.