

It also provides service to the Yucaipa Domestic Water Company, poultry farms, trailer parks, scheduled water users, and special users at specified rates. At the present time, however, about 74 per cent of its sales are to domestic users. It was organized in 1910 and initially supplied water primarily for irrigation purposes. 1 operates in an area of about 3,500 acres including Yucaipa Township. Code, §§ 216, 240, 241, 2701, 2702) and that it is not exempt from regulation under section 2705 of the Public Utilities Code. 1 is a public utility that has dedicated its property to public use (see Pub. 1 is a public utility subject to its jurisdiction, and its determination of that issue is the only question before us for review. The parties stipulated that the commission should first determine whether or not No. Each company filed a complaint against the other with the commission, and thereafter the commission instituted an investigation on its own motion into the operations of No. 1 proposed to charge Domestic and extensions of service by Domestic into areas served by No. In 1959 a dispute arose between the two companies over a substantial increase in the rate No. 1 and owns approximately 5 per cent of No. Domestic is a regulated public utility water corporation. 1 is organized as a nonpublic utility mutual water company and has not heretofore been regulated by the commission. 1 attacks an order of the Public Utilities Commission determining that it is a public utility water corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the commission and directing it to file a financial report and cease and desist from increasing its rates to the Yucaipa Domestic Water Company pending further commission action. In this proceeding Yucaipa Water Company No. Hyer & Graeber, Taylor & Smith and Edward F. Cassidy, Assistant Chief Counsel, and Mary Moran Pajalich, Senior Counsel, for Respondent. Wright as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner. Edwards for Petitioner.Ĭlayson, Stark & Rothrock, George G. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent YUCAIPA DOMESTIC WATER COMPANY (a Corporation), Real Party in Interest.
