“Telephone line” includes all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate communication by telephone, whether such communication is had with or without the use of transmission wires.
Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 233
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 113 Mich. App. 79 - Ram Broadcasting of Michigan, Inc v. Michigan Public Service Commission (1982)
Most recently applied in 440 F. Supp. 2d 1097 - GTE Mobilnet of California Ltd. Partnership v. City of San Francisco (July 2006)
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.