Pub. Util. Code, § 7951 · Chapter 4. Injury to Public Utility Property

Pub. Util. Code, § 7951

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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

Any person who wilfully and maliciously does any injury to telegraph or telephone or electric power or gas property is liable to the corporation for three times the amount of actual damages sustained thereby, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.

Source of truth

Edition: As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Official file: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PUC&sectionNum=7951.
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Provisions in this library whose text cites Pub. Util. Code, § 7951. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.

Government Code

Gov. Code, § 4216.9Printed as Sections 7951, 7952, and 7953 of the Public Utilities Code

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