List of Principal Gas and Electric Companies Doing Business in California. The city or town given opposite the name in each case is either the principal place of business or the locality served. Bakersfield Gas & Electric Light Co.......... Bay Counties Power Co...... Berkeley Electric Lighting Co........ Bakersfield .San Francisco Butte County Electric Light & Power Co......... California Central Gas & Electric Co... California Gas & Electric Corporation Capitol Gas Company.. Chico Gas & Electric Co..... Colusa Gas & Electric Co....... Corona Gas & Electric Co Berkeley San Francisco .Chico Colusa .Corona Edison Electric Co. Equitable Gas Light Co.. Eureka Lighting Co........ Fresno Gas & Electric Light Co. Gilroy Gas Co... Hanford Light & Fuel Co. Hollister Light & Power Co.. Independent Electric Light & Power Co.. Independent Gas & Power Co Jackson Gas Light Co......... Los Angeles Lighting Co....... Marysville Gas & Electric Co........ Merced Falls Gas & Electric Co..... Nevada County Gas & Electric Co.......... Los Angeles San Francisco Eureka Fresno ......Gilroy Hanford .Hollister San Francisco .....Jackson Merced Modesto ......Napa Nevada City Oakland Oroville Pacific Coast Light, Heat & Power Co... Pacific Gas Improvement Co. Pacific Lighting Co. Pasadena Consolidated Gas Co. Pomona & Ontario Light & Fuel Co. Richmond Light & Water Co. Riverside Light & Fuel Co........ San Luis Obispo San Francisco Pasadena .Pomona Red Bluff ....Redding Redlands Point Richmond Sacramento Electric, Gas & Railway Co....... Salinas Water, Light & Power Co. San Bernardino Gas & Electric Co............. San Diego Gas & Electric Light Co.. San Rafael Gas & Electric Light Co.. Selma Light & Water Co........ Solano Electric Light & Gas Co.. St. Helena Gas Co........ Stockton Gas & Electric Co... Suburban Electric Light Co United Electric, Gas & Power Co... United Gas & Electric Co...... Vallejo Gas Light Co. Valley Gas & Fuel Co. Valley Counties Power Co Ventura Water, Light & Power Co.. Whittier Light & Fuel Co. ..Riverside Sacramento Sacramento ..San Bernardino San Diego ..San Francisco San Leandro San Rafael Santa Clara Santa Cruz Santa Rosa Selma ..San Francisco .San Leandro Santa Barbara San Francisco Watsonville .Whittier Woodland INDEX AGENT PAGE May enter house and remove property of Co., when.... 10 May inspect meters...... ALAMEDA See Municipalities of 5th class ANAHEIM-See Municipalities of 6th class AUBURN-See Municipalities of 6th class. BELVEDERE-See Municipalities of 6th class... BERKELEY— Board of Education, power to provide heat and lights for schools Board of Trustees, powers of— may license business.. light streets... 9 32 36 36 4I 36 36 36 36 15 36 36 32 36 36 43 42 42 lay and permit laying of g. pipe, e conduits, etc..... 42 regulate capacity and location of, e. conduits, etc. 42 regulate location of manufactories, when.. Contracts, form and requisite of..... for lighting, not to exceed 2 yrs. and at what rate Officers of not to be interested in contracts... Ordinance, requisites of; what action must be by. BIGGS—See Municipalities of 6th class 42 42 -4I 4I 4I 36 36 BLACK DIAMOND-See Municipalities of 6th class..... 36 BONDS-For acquiring plant- Municipalities of 6th class may issue CALISTOGA-See Municipalities of 6th class....... PAGE 37 BOULDER CREEK, See Municipalities of 6th class....... 36 CHICO-See Municipalities of 5th class.... COLOMA- COLTON-See Municipalities of 6th class........ GOLUSA— Board of Trustees, powers of— may contract for gas.. grant franchises for laying g. pipes, etc, for not ex- ceeding 20 years............................ license business provide for lighting town.. 36 32 36 36 40 36 43 43 43 43 regulate keeping and use of dangerous substances 43 Officers of not to be interested in contracts COMPTON-See Municipalities of 6th class CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS- Damages, for use of street Franchises, see title "Franchise." Gas, streets may be used to pipe where no public works 43- 44 133 36 I I I, 2 Legislature to pass laws concerning charges...... I I 15, 16 Permit, not required to lay gas pipe.......-- 2 Permit, otherwise as to electric light poles............................ 2 Streets, right to use for pipes, etc., need not be exclus- ively for illuminating Supt. of Streets to direct use of streets CONTRACTS- 2 I Charter is measure of power of municipality to contrc't 17. CONTRACTS-Continued. PAGE Confirmation of by council need not be by ordinance.. 17 collect...... Limitation of Municipal indebtedness May Contain What Must Contain What Restrictions. Not to be for more than 5 years 17 -15, 16 4 3, 4 -5, 17 Required for Street Work, not necessarily for -34, 35 Right to Abrogate must be reserved when offer to To Light Streets is not to perform work but to furnish Will be Set Aside when... Will be Aided by Injunction, When With Municipalities are presumed to be made with CORONA-See Municipalities of 6th class 17 21 17 ΙΟ 16 36 36 -39, 40 member of, not to be interested in contract or fran- when majority of, interested in franchise or license DAMAGES AND PENALTIES— 39 36 36 Actions for, under Act of 1877-78, how tried................ 15 Innkeepers, etc.; not to turn off gas at meter. I 19 |