State law requires utility companies to maintain specific clearances (depending on the voltage running through the line) between electric power lines and all vegetation.
SDG&E contractors will trim trees on your property that present a hazard to high-voltage power lines, at no cost to you.
Requires SDG&E to maintain minimum clearances between vegetation and high-voltage power lines. To minimize repeated pruning on a tree, utilities need to achieve at least one year of clearance.
Requires SDG&E to maintain minimum clearances, for fire prevention purposes, for those areas under the responsibility of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention.
States that no person shall come within six to 16 feet of energized high-voltage power lines, and that no boom type of lifting or hoisting equipment shall come within 10 to 20 feet, depending on the voltage of the high-voltage power lines.
This also means there cannot be personnel or equipment in trees, such as avocado or other fruit trees, six feet or less from the high-voltage power lines.
Makes it a crime for an unauthorized person to use tools or other equipment within six feet of high-voltage lines.