South Dakota Code — 8
Browse 151 sections in division 8 of the South Dakota code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 8-1-1. Continuation of existing townships.
- § 8-1-2. Division of county into townships--Boundaries--Alterations.
- § 8-1-3. Maximum size and minimum number of voters in civil township.
- § 8-1-4. Boundary descriptions recorded by county commissioners--Alterations in boundaries.
- § 8-1-5. Organization of civil township on petition of voters.
- § 8-1-6. Name of organized township.
- § 8-1-7. Reorganization, division or merger of civil townships authorized.
- § 8-1-8. Conditions for organization, reorganization, division, or merger of townships or of fractions of townships--Petition by voters.
- § 8-1-9. Hearing to consider proposed organization, reorganization, division, or merger of township or fraction of township--Notice.
- § 8-1-10. Election to decide reorganization, division, or merger of townships.
- § 8-1-11. Name of merged township or newly separated township.
- § 8-1-12. First annual meeting in newly separated township.
- § 8-1-13. Continuation of civil township from which separation made.
- § 8-1-14. Adjustment of assets and indebtedness after division, reorganization or merger of townships.
- § 8-1-15. Board for adjustment and settlement after reorganization, division or merger of township.
- § 8-1-16. First meeting of board of adjustment.
- § 8-1-17. Powers of board of adjustment--Criteria for adjustment.
- § 8-1-18. Filing of determination by board of adjustment--Binding effect.
- § 8-1-19. Compensation of board of adjustment.
- § 8-1-20. Petition for separation of village from civil township--Contents and number of signers.
- § 8-1-21. Notice of consideration by county commissioners of petition for separation of village.
- § 8-1-22. Hearing by county commissioners on separation of village from township--Decision and determination of boundaries.
- § 8-1-23. Petition and election on abolition of township organization.
- § 8-1-23.1. Waiting period for filing petition of abolition.
- § 8-1-24. Abolition of township organization on approval by voters--Abstract of votes--Delivery of township property to county auditor.
- § 8-1-25. Deposit of money and property after abolition of township organization.
- § 8-1-26. Payment of indebtedness after abolition of township organization--Disposition of property--Tax levy for outstanding indebtedness.
- § 8-1-27. Surplus funds expended for road work after abolition of township organization.
- § 8-1-28. Township with real property or bonded indebtedness not permitted to abolish organization.
- § 8-1-29. Reestablishment of township--Reestablishment defined.
- § 8-1-30. Reestablishment of township proposed by county commissioners or petition of voters.
- § 8-1-31. Public hearing on reestablishment of township--Notice.
- § 8-1-32. Election on reestablishment of township.
- § 8-2-1. General corporate and regulatory powers.
- § 8-2-2. Transactions and conveyances in township name.
- § 8-2-3. Proceedings by and against township in township name.
- § 8-2-6. Township public library services.
- § 8-2-7. Liability insurance purchased by township.
- § 8-2-8. Regulatory powers of township containing unincorporated town.
- § 8-2-9. Regulatory powers of township adjacent to large municipality--Subordination to powers of county or municipality.
- § 8-2-10. Powers restricted to those expressly granted.
- § 8-2-11. Publication of township bylaws and changes--Effect.
- § 8-2-12. Remedies for trespass on township lands.
- § 8-2-14. Deferred compensation program for volunteer firefighters--Establishment and management--Participation optional.
- § 8-2-14.1. Deferred compensation program for volunteer advanced life support personnel.
- § 8-2-15. Regulation and maintenance of abandoned cemeteries.
- § 8-2-16. Enrollment in group health, life, and disability income insurance plans--Premiums.
- § 8-3-1. Time and place of annual meeting--Publication of notice.
- § 8-3-1.1. Authority to require nominating petition.
- § 8-3-1.2. Filing nominating petition--Contents--Circulation prior to meeting.
- § 8-3-1.3. Publication of election notice.
- § 8-3-1.4. Notice in township of twenty or fewer resident voters.
- § 8-3-2. Powers of voters at annual meeting.
- § 8-3-3. Special meetings of township electors--Statement calling meeting.
- § 8-3-4. Recording and publication of notice of special meeting--Exception.
- § 8-3-5. Contents of notice of special meeting--Business restricted to stated purposes.
- § 8-3-6. Organization and officers of township meeting.
- § 8-3-7. Township meeting--Voter qualifications--Registration and residence.
- § 8-3-8. Unlawful voting at meeting as misdemeanor.
- § 8-3-9. Township election--Challenge to voter qualification--Affidavit--Violation.
- § 8-3-10. Order of business at meeting--Procedural rules.
- § 8-3-11. Filing of minutes of meeting.
- § 8-3-12. Supervisor elected at annual meeting--Representation of county seat town.
- § 8-3-13. Additional officers elected at annual meeting--Term of constable.
- § 8-3-13.1. Offices of the clerk and treasurer combined--Nomination and election--Powers and responsibilities.
- § 8-3-14. Proclamation of opening of polls, adjournment and closing of polls.
- § 8-3-15. Method of electing officers.
- § 8-3-16. Conduct of voting by ballot.
- § 8-3-17. Canvass and return of voting by ballot.
- § 8-3-17.1. Absentee voting.
- § 8-3-18. Notice to persons elected to township office.
- § 8-3-19. Special meeting called by resident voters after failure to elect officers at annual meeting.
- § 8-3-20. Appointment of officers by county commissioners after failure of township to elect.
- § 8-3-21. Option to adopt campaign finance law.
- § 8-4-1. Eligibility to township office.
- § 8-4-3. Oath of office of township officers.
- § 8-4-4. Clerk to require elected officers to qualify--Refusal or neglect as petty offense.
- § 8-4-5. Failure to file oath or bond as refusal of office.
- § 8-4-6. Forfeiture for entry on office without taking oath.
- § 8-4-7. Term of office of officers.
- § 8-4-8. Salary and compensation of clerk, treasurer, and supervisors.
- § 8-4-10. Acceptance and notice of resignation by township officer.
- § 8-4-11. Filling of vacancy in township office.
- § 8-4-12. Vacancy in board filling vacancies.
- § 8-4-13. Lawful possession of concealed firearm--Personnel prohibition or restriction not permitted--Individuals excluded--Liability.
- § 8-5-1. Time and place of regular meetings.
- § 8-5-2. Business at board meetings--Special meetings--Filing of business with clerk.
- § 8-5-3. Quorum at meetings of board.
- § 8-5-4. General powers of board--Orders for disbursement of funds.
- § 8-5-5. Prosecution of actions for benefit of township--Trespass on township property.
- § 8-5-6. Equalization of township assessments.
- § 8-5-8. Appeals from board of supervisors--Time for taking--Service and filing of notice.
- § 8-5-9. Transcript filed by board on appeals--Settlement and framing of issues.
- § 8-5-10. Hearing de novo on appeals--Judgment and order of circuit court.
- § 8-5-11. Appeals to Supreme Court.
- § 8-5-12. Appeal cumulative to other remedies.
- § 8-5-13. Firearms regulation prohibited--Action by attorney general.
- § 8-5-14. Supervisor names and phone numbers to be posted on township website .
- § 8-5-15. Guaranteed income program prohibited--Enforcement--Definition.
- § 8-6-1. Bond required of clerk.
- § 8-6-2. Appointment of deputy clerk--Oath of office.
- § 8-6-3. Minutes of township meetings--Orders, rules, and regulations and accounts--Preservation--Destruction.
- § 8-6-4. Record of proceedings of supervisors--Preservation--Destruction.
- § 8-6-5. Custody, preservation, and destruction of township records.
- § 8-6-6. Oaths administered and acknowledgments taken by clerk.
- § 8-6-7. Filing annual fiscal report.
- § 8-6-8. Filing record of notice of injury.
- § 8-7-1. Bond required of treasurer.
- § 8-7-2. Custody of township money--Accounting.
- § 8-7-3. Forfeiture of costs and expenses for failure to comply with law.
- § 8-9-1. Contracts unlawful unless made at board meeting.
- § 8-9-2. Contract with township officer void--Removal from office.
- § 8-9-3. Purchase, lease, or lease purchase of equipment--Approval of voters.
- § 8-9-4. Fire protection contracts--Maximum term--Cost negotiated--Estimated costs--Amount of contract.
- § 8-9-6. Nonprofit fire protection corporation or association defined.
- § 8-9-7. Ambulance service contracts authorized--Maximum term and expenditures.
- § 8-10-1. Property tax levy.
- § 8-10-2. Notice to county auditor of township tax levy--Entry on tax list.
- § 8-10-3. Township funds remitted by county treasurer.
- § 8-10-5. Selection of township depository--Exoneration of treasurer for losses in deposited funds.
- § 8-10-6. Purposes for which township funds expended.
- § 8-10-7. Expenditures exceeding maximum tax levy unlawful--Contracts void--Liability of officer authorizing contract--Recording of dissent.
- § 8-10-8. Township expenditures limited by annual tax levy.
- § 8-10-9. Proration of appropriations for more than one year.
- § 8-10-10. Verified statement required for claim against township--False verification as perjury.
- § 8-10-11. Officer before whom verification made--Personal representatives not required to verify.
- § 8-10-12. Examination and allowance of verified claims by township board.
- § 8-10-13. Verification not required for salaries and jurors' and witnesses' claims.
- § 8-10-14. Allowance of claim without verification as misdemeanor.
- § 8-10-15. Auditing of accounts payable--Clerk of the township replacing absent supervisor.
- § 8-10-16. Time of meetings for allowance of accounts--Statement of amount allowed.
- § 8-10-17. Warrants for accounts allowed.
- § 8-10-18. Endorsement of warrant for payment by depository.
- § 8-10-19. Register of warrants not paid on presentation--Data entered.
- § 8-10-20. Warrants paid in order of presentation--Endorsement of warrants not paid--Interest rate.
- § 8-10-21. Call of registered warrants for payment--Termination of interest.
- § 8-10-22. Tax levy for annual payment of interest on warrants.
- § 8-10-23. Call of warrants for annual payment of interest.
- § 8-10-24. Loss of priority by failure to present warrant for annual interest.
- § 8-10-25. Endorsement of interest payments on warrant--Priority preserved though interest not paid.
- § 8-10-26. Township exempt from execution--Payment of judgment by treasurer--Tax levy for payment of judgment.
- § 8-10-27. Accounts maintained by treasurer--Exhibition to township board.
- § 8-10-28. Examination by board of accounts of treasurer and officers handling money.
- § 8-10-29. Report of fiscal affairs by board--Reading and publication of report.
- § 8-10-30. Treasurer's annual financial statement--Contents--Filing.
- § 8-10-31. Forfeiture by treasurer for neglect of duty.
- § 8-10-32. Township authorized to enter lease-purchase agreement to lease real or personal property.
- § 8-11-3. Authorization, issuance and sale--Vote required.
- § 8-11-4. Refunding bonds issued on judgment against township--Compromise with judgment creditor.
- § 8-11-7. Tax levy for retirement of bonds--Special fund.
- § 8-11-8. Investment of township debt service funds--Tax levy for bonds in debt service fund.