2005 California Government Code Sections 13070-13083 Article 1. General

13070.  The department has general powers of supervision over all
matters concerning the financial and business policies of the State
and whenever it deems it necessary, or at the instance of the
Governor, shall institute or cause the institution of such
investigations and proceedings as it deems proper to conserve the
rights and interests of the State.
13071.  The Director of Finance, in coordinating the internal
auditors of state agencies, shall ensure that these auditors utilize
the "Standards for the Professional Practices of Internal Auditing."
13073.  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.
13073.1.  Whenever the department issues reports containing
population breakdowns or analyses based on race or ethnicity, it
shall report Asian-Pacific Islanders as a distinct category, and not
combine Asian-Pacific Islanders into any other category.
13073.5.  The Legislature finds and declares that:  (1) population
size and distribution patterns in California exert a major influence
on the physical, social, and economic structure of the state and on
the quality of the environment generally; (2) sound and current data
and methods to estimate population trends are necessary to enable
state, regional, and local agencies to plan and function properly;
and (3) there is a critical need for a proper study of the
implications of present and future population trends in order that
state, regional, and local agencies might develop or reexamine
policies and actions based thereon.
   The Population Research Unit shall:
   (a) Develop basic demographic data and statistical compilations,
which may include current population survey and a mid-decade census.
   (b) Design and test methods of research and data collection.
   (c) Conduct local population estimates as required by law.
   (d) Validate all official census data and population statistics.
   (e) Analyze and prepare projections of enrollments in public
schools, colleges, and universities.
   (f) Analyze governmental records to establish characteristics of
migration and distribution.
   (g) Publish annual estimates of the population of the state and
its composition.
   (h) Prepare short- and long-range projections of population and
its composition.
   (i) Provide advisory services to state agencies and other levels
of government.
   (j) Evaluate and recommend data requirements for determining
population and population growth.
   (k) Analyze the demographic features of the causes and
consequences of patterns of natural increase or decrease, migration,
and population concentration within the state.
   (l) Assess the need for population data required for determining
the allocation of federal, state, and other subvention revenues.
   (m) Request and obtain from any department, division, commission,
or other agency of the state such assistance and information as will
enable the unit to effectively carry out the provisions of this
section.
   (n) Cooperate with the Office of Planning and Research with
respect to functions involving mutual areas of concern relating to
demography and state planning.
   (o) Enter into agreements to carry out the purposes of this
section, including the application for and acceptance of federal
funds or private foundation grants for demographic studies.
   (p) Act as primary state government liaison with the Census
Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, in the acquisition and
distribution of census data and related documentation to state
agencies.
   (q) Administer, with other agencies, a State Census Data Center
which will be responsible for acquiring decennial and other census
data from the Bureau of the Census, and for providing necessary
information to the Legislature and to the executive branch and for
seeking to ensure the availability of census information to local
governments.  The unit and the Office of Planning and Research shall
be responsible for designating subcenters of the State Census Data
Center as needed.  The unit will provide materials to subcenters of
the State Census Data Center, will coordinate the efforts of the
subcenters to avoid duplication and may consult in the design of
standard reports to be offered by the center and its subcenters.
   (r) Coordinate with the Office of Planning and Research
Environmental Data Center for the purposes of ensuring consistency
and compatibility of data products, improving public access to data,
ensuring the consistent interpretation of data, and avoiding
duplication of functions.
13074.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any revision,
subsequent to the first revision, of the annual provisional county
population estimates, made by the Department of Finance, shall not be
the basis for a change in the amount of state funds received by
local agencies or funds owed or paid by local agencies to the state.
13075.  (a) When authorized or required by the Legislature in the
Budget Act, the Department of Finance may exercise control over the
adoption of regulations as provided in this section.  The Legislature
shall not authorize or require the Department of Finance in the
Budget Act to review and approve regulations adopted by state
agencies except:
   (1) Regulations adopted by the Department of Social Services which
add to the cost of any public assistance programs as these are
defined in Section 10061 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
   (2) Regulations adopted by a state agency which would have the
effect of increasing expenditures from the Health Care Deposit Fund
under the Medical Assistance Program.
   The Department of Finance shall limit its review of a regulation
under this section to making a determination as to whether sufficient
funds are available to fund the added program expenditures which
would be incurred if the regulation were adopted.  In making the
determination concerning the sufficiency of funds to meet the costs
of the regulation, the Director of Finance shall consider the amount
of the costs which would be added to the program or the increased
expenditures from the Health Care Deposit Fund for the fiscal year
during which the costs or expenditures would be incurred, the effect
such a change would have on the expenditure limitations established
in the Budget Act for that year, and the extent to which the
regulation constitutes a deviation from the program requirements, the
assumptions, and the estimates which were the basis for establishing
the expenditure limitations in the Budget Act.
   (b) The Department of Finance shall issue written instructions to
the state agencies which adopt regulations subject to the provisions
of this section.  The instructions shall include the data
requirements, methods of estimating costs or expenditures, and the
narrative explanation which the department requires in order to
review regulations which it is authorized or required to review.  The
instructions shall also include an explanation of the department's
review procedures and the methods the department uses in making
decisions concerning the sufficiency of funds to pay for added
program costs or increased expenditures.
   (c) The Department of Finance shall complete the review of any
regulation subject to the provisions of this section within 15
working days following its receipt.  If the department fails to act
within that period of time, the regulation shall be deemed approved
by the department.
13076.  The director shall visit or cause to be visited from time to
time every public institution maintained in whole or in part by
State appropriations, to ascertain their condition, and their wants
and requirements.
13077.  Whenever a nonprofit corporation or foundation enters into a
contract with a state educational institution, maintained in whole
or in part by state appropriation, under the terms of which services
are to be performed for the state educational institution, the books
and records of such nonprofit corporation or foundation, insofar as
they relate to revenues and expenditures applicable to the contract,
may be audited by the Department of Finance.
13078.  The director may exempt from his approval or from approval
of the department any transactions involving not more than
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for which such approval is
required by statute whenever, in his judgment, such exemption is
appropriate and in the best interests of the state.  Written notice
of exemptions shall be given to the Controller.
13079.  With the consent of the Legislature, the director may make
application for and accept loans of funds made available by the
federal government or a federal department or agency to aid in
financing the costs of engineering and architectural surveys,
designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, or other action
preliminary to and in preparation for the construction of public
works authorized by the Legislature.  Repayment of such loans shall
be pursuant to appropriation by the Legislature.
13080.  Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount
required for liquidation of the investment, with interest at the rate
agreed upon between the parties, in any agreements entered into
between the State Department of the California Highway Patrol and the
Governor and any other state agency, pursuant to the provisions of
Section 14681 of the Government Code, is hereby appropriated each
fiscal year from the State Treasury.  Of the amount so appropriated,
so much thereof as is necessary to liquidate the investment in the
building for the State Department of the California Highway Patrol is
payable from the Motor Vehicle Fund, and the balance necessary for
such liquidation is payable from the General Fund.  The money herein
appropriated shall be allotted to the State Department of the
California Highway Patrol and the Governor by the Director of Finance
for support in such amounts as he may determine to be necessary, and
shall become available only if the Department of Finance certifies
to the State Controller that the amount required monthly to liquidate
the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon, has not been
included in the Budget Act for such fiscal year for support of the
State Department of the California Highway Patrol for such portion of
the building which has been provided for its use, or has not been
included in the Budget Act for any fiscal year for such portion of
the building which has been provided for the use of the Office of
Civil Defense.
13081.  Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount
required for liquidation of the investment, with interest at the rate
agreed upon between the parties, in any agreements entered into
between the State Department of Motor Vehicles or the State
Department of California Highway Patrol, and any other state agency,
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 14679 and 14682 of the
Government Code, is hereby appropriated each fiscal year from the
Motor Vehicle Fund in the State Treasury.  The money herein
appropriated shall be allotted to the State Department of California
Highway Patrol or to the State Department of Motor Vehicles by the
Director of Finance for support in such amounts as he may determine
to be necessary, and shall become available only if the Department of
Finance certifies to the State Controller that the amount required
monthly to liquidate the investment, with interest at the rate agreed
upon, has not been included in the Budget Act for such fiscal year
for support of said departments.
13082.  Subject to the approval of the Capitol Building and Planning
Commission, the department shall acquire and do all acts necessary
to erect and maintain a monument to Father Junipero Serra on the
grounds of the State Capitol.
13083.  The State Agricultural Society has control of the real
property in the City of Sacramento, described as Lots 62, 63, 64 and
65 on Fifth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street, and now merged with the
land comprising the State Fair Grounds, for use for State Fair
purposes.