South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 10 - Township Fiscal Affairs
Section 8-10-29 - Report of fiscal affairs by board--Reading and publication of report.

8-10-29. Report of fiscal affairs by board--Reading and publication of report.
Such board shall make a report, stating in detail the items of account audited and allowed, the nature of each account, and the name of the person to whom such account was allowed, including a statement of the fiscal concerns of the township and an estimate of the sum necessary to meet the lawful expenditures of the ensuing year. Such report shall be produced and publicly read by the clerk at the next ensuing township meeting, and the whole or any portion of such report may be referred by order of the meeting to a committee, whose duty it shall be to examine the same and report thereon to such meeting. A majority of the township voters present at such meeting may cause such complete report, or any part thereof, to be published within ten days in a legal newspaper within the township or nearest to the township for one issue.

Source: SL 1872-3, ch 51, §§71, 72; PolC 1877, ch 23, §§46, 47; SL 1883, ch 112, subch 1, §§80, 81; CL 1887, §§793, 794; RPolC 1903, §§1087, 1088; RC 1919, §§6108, 6109; SL 1925, ch 291; SDC 1939, §58.0804.

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 8 - Townships

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 8-10-5 - Selection of township depository--Exoneration of treasurer for losses in deposited funds.

Section 8-10-6 - Purposes for which township funds expended.

Section 8-10-7 - Expenditures exceeding maximum tax levy unlawful--Contracts void--Liability of officer authorizing contract--Recording of dissent.

Section 8-10-8 - Township expenditures limited by annual tax levy.

Section 8-10-9 - Proration of appropriations for more than one year.

Section 8-10-10 - Verified statement required for claim against township--False verification as perjury.

Section 8-10-11 - Officer before whom verification made--Personal representatives not required to verify.

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 8-10-20 - Warrants paid in order of presentation--Endorsement of warrants not paid--Interest rate.

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 8-10-26 - Township exempt from execution--Payment of judgment by treasurer--Tax levy for payment of judgment.

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.

Section 8-10-32 - Township authorized to enter lease-purchase agreement to lease real or personal property.