8-6-1. Bond required of clerk. Any person elected or appointed to the office of township clerk shall, before the person enters the office and within the time prescribed by law for filing the oath of office, execute a bond, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of the office, paid for by the township, […]
8-6-2. Appointment of deputy clerk–Oath of office. The township clerk may in his discretion appoint a deputy, for whose acts he shall be responsible. Before any deputy shall enter upon the duties of his office he shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation required by §3-1-5, which oath shall be filed in the office […]
8-6-3. Minutes of township meetings–Orders, rules, and regulations and accounts–Preservation–Destruction. The township clerk shall record, in the book of records of his township, minutes of the proceedings of every township meeting, and he shall enter therein every order or direction and all rules and regulations of any such meeting, and shall also file and preserve […]
8-6-4. Record of proceedings of supervisors–Preservation–Destruction. The township clerk shall be clerk of the township board of supervisors and shall manage and file a true record of all its proceedings except the records for accounts maintained by the treasurer as prescribed in §8-10-27 and when no other provision is made by law. However, the township […]
8-6-5. Custody, preservation, and destruction of township records. If no other provision is made by law, the township clerk shall duly file and safely keep all records and papers required by law to be filed by the township clerk. However, the township clerk may destroy any record which the records destruction board, acting pursuant to […]
8-6-6. Oaths administered and acknowledgments taken by clerk. The township clerk is authorized to administer all oaths and take all acknowledgments of instruments authorized or required by law. Source: SL 1883, ch 112, subch 1, §64; CL 1887, §776; RPolC 1903, §1070; RC 1919, §6096; SDC 1939, §58.0605.
8-6-7. Filing annual fiscal report. The township clerk shall file the annual fiscal report of the township with the county auditor pursuant to §6-9-1 by the last day of March of the year immediately following the close of the township’s fiscal year. Source: SL 1993, ch 69, §3; SL 2014, ch 48, §10.
8-6-8. Filing record of notice of injury. The township clerk shall file for the township pursuant to §3-21-3 any record of notice of injury received by the township. Source: SL 1993, ch 69, §4.
