Pub. Util. Code, § 394.7 · Article 12. Consumer Protection
Pub. Util. Code, § 394.7
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) The commission shall maintain a list of residential and small commercial customers who do not wish to be solicited by telephone, by an electric corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator for electric service, to subscribe to or change their electric service provider. The commission shall not assess a charge for inclusion of a customer on the list. The list shall be updated periodically, but no less than quarterly.
(b) The list shall include sufficient information for electric corporations, marketers, brokers, or aggregators of electric service to identify customers who do not wish to be solicited, including a customer’s address and telephone number. The list shall be made accessible electronically from the commission to any party regulated as an electric corporation or registered at the commission as an electric marketer, broker, or aggregator of electric service.
(c) An electric corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator of electric service shall not solicit, by telephone, any customer on the list prepared pursuant to subdivision (a). Any electric corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator of electric service, or the representative of an electric corporation, marketer, broker, or aggregator of electric service, who solicits any customer on the list prepared pursuant to subdivision (a) more than once shall be liable to the customer for twenty-five dollars ($25) for each contact in violation of this subdivision.
(d) This section shall not apply to the telephone verification required pursuant to Section 366.5.
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History
Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 275, Sec. 22. Effective August 15, 1997.
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