Section 7935 Of Chapter 3.5. New Area Codes From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 4. >> Chapter 3.5.
7935
. (a) The commission shall develop and implement any measures
it determines to be available for telephone corporations that possess
prefixes to efficiently allocate telephone numbers within those
prefixes. The commission shall consider the cost effectiveness of
these measures before requiring implementation. Among the measures
the commission shall consider are rate center consolidation,
allocation of numbers in blocks smaller than 10,000, and unassigned
number porting.
(b) For the purpose of this section, in accordance with the North
American Numbering Plan, a telephone number consists of a three digit
area code or number plan area (NPA), a three digit prefix or NXX
code, and a four digit line number.