“Transportation of property” includes every service in connection with or incidental to the transportation of property, including in particular its receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer, switching, carriage, ventilation, refrigeration, icing, dunnage, storage, and handling, and the transmission of credit by express corporations.
Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 209
General Provisions and Definitions
Known as the Public Utilities Act
The act spans §§ 201–2120 (1,026 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 30 Cal. 3d 220 - Samson v. Transamerica Insurance (1981)
Most recently applied in 49 Cal. App. 4th 554 - Condor Insurance v. Williamsburg National Insurance (September 1996)
Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.
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.