The commission may at any time, upon notice to the parties, and with opportunity to be heard as provided in the case of complaints, rescind, alter, or amend any order or decision made by it. Any order rescinding, altering, or amending a prior order or decision shall, when served upon the parties, have the same effect as an original order or decision.
Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 1708
Hearings
Known as the Public Utilities Act
The act spans §§ 201 to 2120 (1,026 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 25 Cal. 3d 891 - Consumers Lobby Against Monopolies v. Public Utilities Commission (1979)
Most recently applied in In Re Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (January 2004)
Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 514.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.