SECTIONS 1351-1354 - California Statutes

PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE

SECTION 1351-1354

1351. The commission may ascertain for each purpose specified in
this part, the value of the property of every public utility in this
State and every fact and element of value which in its judgment may
or does have any bearing on such value. The commission may make
revaluations from time to time and ascertain the value of all
additions, betterments, extensions, and new construction to the
property of every public utility.

1352. For the purpose of ascertaining the matters and things
specified in Section 1351, the commission may cause a hearing to be
held at such time and place as it may designate. Before any hearing
is had, the commission shall give the public utility affected thereby
at least 30 days' written notice, specifying the time and place of
the hearing, and such notice shall be sufficient to authorize the
commission to inquire into the matters designated in Sections 1351 to
1354, inclusive, but this provision shall not prevent the commission
from making any preliminary examination or investigation into those
matters. All public utilities affected shall be entitled to be heard
and may introduce evidence at such hearing. The evidence introduced
at such hearing shall be reduced to writing and certified under the
seal of the commission.

1353. (a) The commission may make and file its written findings of
fact upon matters concerning which evidence has been introduced
before it which, in its judgment, have bearing on the value of the
property of the public utility affected. These findings shall be
subject to review by the courts in the same manner and within the
same time as other orders and decisions of the commission.
(b) The findings of the commission so made and filed, when
certified under the seal of the commission, shall be admissible in
evidence in any action, proceeding, or hearing before the commission
or any court in which the commission, the state, or any officer,
department, or institution thereof, or any county, city and county,
city, or other body politic and the public utility affected may be
interested, whether arising under this part, or otherwise. These
findings, when so introduced, shall be conclusive evidence of the
facts therein stated as of the date therein stated under conditions
then existing, and these facts may only be controverted by showing a
subsequent change in conditions bearing upon the facts therein
determined.

1354. The commission may, from time to time, cause further hearings
and investigations to be had for the purpose of making revaluations
or ascertaining the value of any additions, betterments, extensions,
and new construction made by any public utility subsequent to any
prior hearing or investigation, and may examine into all matters
which may change, modify, or affect any finding of fact previously
made, and may at such time make findings of fact supplementary to
those theretofore made. Such hearings shall be had upon the same
notice, and be conducted in the same manner, and the findings so made
shall have the same force and effect as is provided in this chapter
for original notice, hearing, and findings. Findings made at such
supplemental hearings or investigations shall be considered in
connection with and as a part of the original findings, except
insofar as such supplemental findings change or modify the findings
made at the original hearing or investigation.