When the commission finds, after hearing, that any person or corporation has knowingly aided or abetted a common carrier in violating Section 458 or has violated Section 459, or any order, decision, rule, regulation, direction, demand, or requirement issued under those provisions, the commission may impose a fine for each violation not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000). In addition to the fine, the commission may impose interest on the fine, not to exceed the maximum rate of interest provided for in Section 1 of Article XV of the Constitution. Interest shall commence to accrue on the date when the payment of the fine becomes delinquent.
Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 2107.5
Violations
Known as the Public Utilities Act
The act spans §§ 201–2120 (1,026 sections).
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1042, Sec. 25
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