Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority v. Public Utilities Commission

The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority seeks review of the validity of an order of respondent Public Utilities Commission compelling it to “ comply immediately with the safety rules and other regulations governing the operation of passenger stage corporations and street railroad corporations as contained in General Order No. 98 of the Commission [a compilation of safety and safety-related rules], or any modifications thereof, ...” and in connection *866 therewith to “make available to the representatives of the Commission any and all of its records, equipment, and other instrumentalities and property. ...”

The order was entered pursuant to the mandate of the 1961 amendment to section 3.2 of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Act providing that: “The authority shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission with respect to safety rules and other regulations governing the operation of passenger stage corporations and street railroad corporations as contained in General Order No. 98 of the commission, or any modification thereof.” (Italics added.) (Stats. 1961, ch. 1571, p. 3396.)

The essential contention is that so subjecting petitioner…