8-10-10. Verified statement required for claim against township--False verification as perjury.
Before any account, claim, or demand against any township for any property or services for which such township is liable shall be audited or allowed by the board or officers authorized by law to audit and allow the same, the person in whose favor such account, claim, or demand exists, or his agent, shall reduce the same to writing in items and shall verify that such account, claim, or demand is just and true, that the money therein charged was actually paid for the purposes therein stated, or that the property therein charged was actually delivered or used for the purposes therein stated and was of the value therein charged, or that the services therein charged were actually rendered and of the value therein charged, or in case such services were official, for which fees are prescribed by law, then that the fees or amounts charged therefor are such as are allowed by law, and that no part of such account, claim, or demand has been paid.
Every person who knowingly swears falsely to the verification required by this section, shall be guilty of perjury and punished accordingly.
Source: SL 1883, ch 112, subch 1, §§87, 88; CL 1887, §§800, 801; RPolC 1903, §§1094, 1095; RC 1919, §§6113, 6114; SDC 1939, §§58.0806, 58.9905; SL 1981, ch 43, §11.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 10 - Township Fiscal Affairs
Section 8-10-1 - Property tax levy.
Section 8-10-2 - Notice to county auditor of township tax levy--Entry on tax list.
Section 8-10-3 - Township funds remitted by county treasurer.
Section 8-10-6 - Purposes for which township funds expended.
Section 8-10-8 - Township expenditures limited by annual tax levy.
Section 8-10-9 - Proration of appropriations for more than one year.
Section 8-10-12 - Examination and allowance of verified claims by township board.
Section 8-10-13 - Verification not required for salaries and jurors' and witnesses' claims.
Section 8-10-14 - Allowance of claim without verification as misdemeanor.
Section 8-10-15 - Auditing of accounts payable--Clerk of the township replacing absent supervisor.
Section 8-10-16 - Time of meetings for allowance of accounts--Statement of amount allowed.
Section 8-10-17 - Warrants for accounts allowed.
Section 8-10-18 - Endorsement of warrant for payment by depository.
Section 8-10-19 - Register of warrants not paid on presentation--Data entered.
Section 8-10-21 - Call of registered warrants for payment--Termination of interest.
Section 8-10-22 - Tax levy for annual payment of interest on warrants.
Section 8-10-23 - Call of warrants for annual payment of interest.
Section 8-10-24 - Loss of priority by failure to present warrant for annual interest.
Section 8-10-27 - Accounts maintained by treasurer--Exhibition to township board.
Section 8-10-28 - Examination by board of accounts of treasurer and officers handling money.
Section 8-10-29 - Report of fiscal affairs by board--Reading and publication of report.
Section 8-10-30 - Treasurer's annual financial statement--Contents--Filing.
Section 8-10-31 - Forfeiture by treasurer for neglect of duty.