Section 6001 Of Article 1. Manner Of Granting From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.
6001
. Every franchise or privilege to erect or lay telegraph or
telephone wires, to construct or operate street or interurban
railroads upon any public street or highway, to lay gas pipes for the
purpose of carrying gas for light, heat, or power, to erect poles or
wires for transmitting electricity for light, heat, or power, along
or upon any public street or highway, or to exercise any other
privilege whatever proposed to be granted by the governing or
legislative body of any county, city and county, or city shall be
granted upon the conditions in this article provided, and not
otherwise, except when such franchises are granted pursuant to
Chapters 2 or 3 of this division.
This article does not apply to franchises or privileges for
railroads, or telegraph or telephone lines doing an interstate
business, or to renewals of franchises for piers, chutes, or wharves,
or to community antenna television systems, or to franchises or
privileges for purposes not involving the furnishing of any service
or commodity to the public or any portion thereof.