Section 6001.5 Of Article 1. Manner Of Granting From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.
6001.5
. (a) All franchises, licenses, permits, or other privileges
granted to a public utility by any city, county, or city and county
holding a freeholder's charter, to use, or to construct, or lay and
use, under, along, across, or upon the public streets, ways, alleys,
and places within the municipality, facilities which are part of a
pipeline system transmitting oil or products thereof, shall be
granted upon the terms and conditions provided in, and in accordance
with, this chapter or Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 6201).
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section,
to preempt the ordinance of any chartered municipality insofar as
that ordinance governs the granting of franchises to construct
facilities which are part of a pipeline system transmitting oil or
other products thereof.