Article 2. Special Census of California Government Code >> Division 3. >> Title 4. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 17. >> Article 2.

For the purpose of determining where county offices shall be established, a city legislative body may establish the population of the city pursuant to this article.

The Legislative body may adopt a resolution providing that a census be taken in the city to establish the population in years other than those in which a federal census is taken. Such census shall be validated by the Population Research Unit of the Department of Finance.

The ordinance shall prescribe the rules and regulations for taking the census to insure an accurate count of the inhabitants of the city.

Census takers shall be appointed by the legislative body and sworn to faithfully perform their duties. All reports of the census takers shall be sworn to before an officer authorized to take oaths.

The city clerk shall prepare a certified copy of the final census report. Thereafter it is the official census of the city for the purposes of this article.

The expense of taking the census is a city charge.

For the purposes of this article, any enumeration of population made by the United States Bureau of Census in any year other than that in which a decennial census is taken establishes the population of any city. A copy of such determination of population shall be filed in the Population Research Unit of the Department of Finance and thereafter is the official census of the city for the purposes of this article.