Los Angeles Municipal Code Art. 5 Collection of Statistical Data by Census Tract

(a) Documents. Any record, paper, document, form, archive map, book or drawing containing a geographic designator which is created or maintained in the conduct of City business and preserved as evidence of its organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations or other activities or because of the informational value of the data contained therein.

(b) Geographic Designator. A reference contained in any document to a geographic location or to a clearly defined geographic area within the City.

(c) Correspondence Table. A table to convert geographic designators to census tract locations.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 148,729, Eff. 9-25-76.

(a) The Information Technology Department, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services, shall develop procedures for encoding information received by it pursuant to the provisions of this article and for converting geographic designators contained on said documents to census tract locations.

(b) The various City departments, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services, shall develop correspondence tables to permit the inscribing of census tract locations by departmental personnel on all documents where the geographic designator or designators contained therein are of such a nature as to preclude conversion to census tract locations by the Information Technology Department.

(c) The Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services shall determine guidelines for the identification and processing of documents under this ordinance and shall publish guidelines or procedures for the processing and storage of resultant data.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 148,729, Eff. 9-25-76. Amended by: Subsecs. (a), (b), Ord. No. 160,561, Eff 1-9-86; Information Technology Department” inserted, “Department of Information Services” deleted, Ord. No. 170,600, Eff. 8-11-95; Ord. No. 173,288, Eff. 6-26-00, Oper. 7-1-00.

(a) Pursuant to guidelines determined by the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services, every document or a copy shall be forwarded to the Information Technology Department for processing.

(b) Where required, the letters “CT” and the census tract location shall be inscribed upon the upper right hand corner of the face sheet of the document, prior to forwarding to the Information Technology Department.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 148,729, Eff. 9-25-76. Amended by: Subsecs. (a), (b), Ord. No. 160,551, Eff 1-9-86; “Information Technology Department” inserted, “Department of Information Services” deleted, Ord. No. 170,600, Eff. 8-11-95; Subsec. (a), Ord. No. 173,288, Eff. 6-26-00, Oper. 7-1-00.