8-3-13. Additional officers elected at annual meeting--Term of constable.

At each annual meeting, a clerk and a treasurer shall be elected, and a constable may be elected. If a constable is elected, the term of office is two years, except to fill vacancies.

Source: SL 1872-3, ch 51, §§ 12, 24; PolC 1877, ch 23, § 19; CL 1887, § 715; SL 1899, ch 84, § 2; RPolC 1903, § 1007; SL 1903, ch 136; SL 1905, ch 106; SL 1907, ch 143; SL 1911, ch 221, § 1; SL 1913, ch 232, § 1; RC 1919, § 6048; SL 1933, ch 199; SDC 1939, § 58.0302; SL 1941, ch 366; SL 1967, ch 315, § 2; SL 1981, ch 44, § 13; SL 1990, ch 57.

8-3-13.1. Offices of the clerk and treasurer combined--Nomination and election--Powers and responsibilities.

The voters of each organized civil township with fifty or fewer resident voters may combine the offices of the clerk and treasurer during the annual meeting. If a majority of the voters vote to combine the offices, the combined office of the clerk and treasurer shall be nominated and elected in the same manner as other officers are nominated and elected. Any person elected to the combined office of the clerk and treasurer shall have all of the powers and responsibilities of the offices of the clerk and treasurer.

Source: SL 2004, ch 72, § 1; SL 2013, ch 34, § 1.