Section 13073 Of Article 1. General From California Government Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
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. Within the Department of Finance, there is the Population
Research Unit. The purposes of the unit include, but are not limited
to, the following:
(a) Providing adequate demographic data to aid effective state and
local planning and policymaking.
(b) Serving all levels of government and the private sector as the
centralized state source of demographic data.
(c) Assuring equitable classification of cities and counties
according to population to provide equitable distribution of funds
and tax rate limits.
(d) Rendering advisory, investigational, or other similar service
of relevance to the establishment of population and its composition
to any city, county, district, association of cities, counties,
districts or any other political subdivision or the federal
government upon such terms and conditions as may be satisfactory to
the director, provided that the state shall be reimbursed for all
costs incurred in performing services authorized by this subdivision.