California Government Code

§ 15470

GOV § 15470 Effective Jan 1, 2020Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 7.3

Statute text

(a)The state has long recognized the critical nature of its energy and communication infrastructure, in its importance in driving the engine of the state’s prosperity, in the hardships placed on the state’s residents in the absence of the services the infrastructure provides, and in the devastation that can occur when the operators of the infrastructure lose operational control of the infrastructure. To ensure that the operations of energy and communication infrastructure within the state will be managed adequately, the Legislature finds and declares all of the following are necessary:

(1)To provide for a state office to be known and referred to as the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, within the Natural Resources Agency, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the director of that office.

(2)To provide for the coordination of functions among state entities with jurisdiction over other functions of the state’s energy and communication service providers.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 396, Sec. 3. (AB 1513) Effective January 1, 2020.