Section 7952 Of Chapter 4. Injury To Public Utility Property From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 4. >> Chapter 4.
7952
. Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper
care, any necessary or useful facility or equipment of any telegraph,
telephone, electrical, or gas corporation, is liable to the
corporation for all damages sustained thereby. The measure of damages
to the facility or equipment injured or destroyed shall be the cost
to repair or replace the property injured or destroyed including
direct and allocated costs for labor, materials, supervision,
supplies, tools, taxes, transportation, administrative and general
expense and other indirect or overhead expenses, less credit, if any,
for salvage, as determined by such telegraph, telephone, electrical
or gas corporations in conformity with a system of accounts
established by the commission. The specifying of the measure of
damages for the facility or equipment shall not preclude the recovery
of such other damages occasioned thereby as may be authorized by
law.
Any vessel which, by dragging its anchor, or otherwise, breaks,
injures or destroys any underwater cable of a telegraph, telephone or
electrical corporation or pipeline of a gas corporation, subjects
its owner to liability for the damages sustained thereby.