South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 10 - Township Fiscal Affairs
Section 8-10-6 - Purposes for which township funds expended.

8-10-6. Purposes for which township funds expended.
The following shall be deemed township charges:
(1)The compensation of township officers for services rendered their respective township;
(2)Contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the township;
(3)The money authorized to be raised by the vote of the township meeting for any township purpose;
(4)Every sum directed by law to be raised for any township purpose;
but no tax for township purposes shall exceed the amount voted to be raised at the annual meeting.

Source: SL 1883, ch 112, subch 1, §100; CL 1887, §813; RPolC 1903, §1107; RC 1919, §6122; SDC 1939, §58.0815.

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.