Section 7902 Of Division 9. Expenditure Limitations From California Government Code >> Division 9. >> Title 1.
7902
. (a) For the 1980-81 fiscal year, the appropriations limit of
the state and of each local jurisdiction shall be determined as
follows:
(1) Multiply the total amount of appropriations subject to
limitation of each such entity for the 1978-79 fiscal year by the
lesser of the change in cost of living for the 1979 calendar year or
the change in California per capita personal income for the 1978
calendar year, and multiply this product by the change in population
of each such entity for the 1978 calendar year.
(2) Multiply the product determined pursuant to paragraph (1) by
the lesser of the change in cost of living for the 1980 calendar year
or the change in California per capita personal income for the 1979
calendar year, and multiply this product by the change in population
of each entity for the 1979 calendar year. The resulting product, as
adjusted for other changes required or permitted by Article XIII B of
the California Constitution, shall be the appropriations limit of
each entity for fiscal year 1980-81.
(b) For the 1981-82 fiscal year and each year thereafter, the
appropriations limit of the state and of each local jurisdiction
shall equal the appropriations limit for the prior fiscal year
multiplied by the product of the change in cost of living, as defined
in paragraph (2) of subdivision (e) of Section 8 of Article XIII B
of the California Constitution, and the change in population of the
local jurisdiction for the calendar year preceding the beginning of
the fiscal year for which the appropriations limit is to be
determined, and adjusted for other changes required or permitted by
Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
(c) For the purposes of this division, if a local agency's fiscal
year begins on January 1, the agency shall base its appropriations
limit on its appropriations subject to limitation for the 1979
calendar year. For that agency, the 1981 calendar year shall be the
first year for which the appropriations limit shall apply. For
purposes of the computations required by this section, that agency
shall use the change in population, cost-of-living, and per capita
personal income factors that it would have used had its fiscal year
begun on the previous July 1.