Chapter
01. Establishment, Division, Organization And Disorganization Of Townships
02. Powers And Obligations Of Organized Townships
03. Township Meetings And Elections
04. Township Officers
05. Township Board Of Supervisors
06. Township Clerk
07. Township Treasurer
08. Township Constable
09. Township Contracts And Purchases
10. Township Fiscal Affairs
11. Township Bonds
CHAPTER 8-1
ESTABLISHMENT, DIVISION, ORGANIZATION
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.
8-2-4
Repealed.
8-2-5
Repealed.
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.
8-2-13
Repealed.
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.
CHAPTER 8-3
TOWNSHIP MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS
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.
CHAPTER 8-4
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS
8-4-1 Eligibility to township office.
8-4-2 8-4-2. Repealed by SL 1974, ch 55, § 50.
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.
8-4-9 8-4-9. Repealed by SL 2014, ch 48, § 7.
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.
CHAPTER 8-5
TOWNSHIP BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
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.
8-5-7 8-5-7. Repealed by SL 1981, ch 61, § 2.
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.
8-9-5
Repealed.
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.
8-10-4
Repealed.
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.
8-11-1, 8-11-2. Repealed.
8-11-3
Authorization, issuance and sale--Vote required.
8-11-4
Refunding bonds issued on judgment against township--Compromise with judgment
creditor.
8-11-5, 8-11-6. Repealed.
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.
8-11-9 to 8-11-14. Repealed.
