Title 58, Townships

The boundary lines of an organized township may be changed only in the manner provided in this chapter.

The board of county commissioners may attach a fractional congressional township to an adjoining township within the same county or divide it between two or more townships within the same county upon the petition of a majority of the qualified electors to be affected.

If rivers, lakes, or creeks divide a civil or congressional township and make it inconvenient to do township business, the board of county commissioners of the county in which the township is located may annex that part of the township segregated by such river, lake, or creek to …

The board of county commissioners may divide a township in which there are two or more cities, each containing two hundred or more inhabitants, upon the petition of a majority of the qualified electors to be affected. If the division is ordered, it must be made in the manner best…

The board of county commissioners may unite two or more congressional townships into one civil township or may add not more than three congressional townships to any congressional township already organized as a civil township when petitioned to do so by a majority of the qualifi…

Before any change is made in the boundaries of a civil township, twenty days' notice of such proposed change must be given to the chairman of the board of supervisors of such township.

Property which has been detached from an organized civil township under any provision of this chapter remains liable for and subject to any tax levied or assessed in the township of which it was a part prior to such detachment. A portion of any township annexed to another townshi…

When a township or a fraction of a township has been attached to another township, the several boards of township supervisors and the clerks of the townships affected by the change shall meet prior to the annual township meeting at the usual meeting place of the township to which…

When a fraction of a township has been detached from one organized township and attached to another, the detached territory shall assume and pay a just proportion of the indebtedness of the township from which it has been detached, based upon the last assessed valuation of the or…

At the meeting described in section 58-02-14, the members of the boards of township supervisors and the township clerks there present shall determine the value of the townhall and of all other property owned and used by the township to which the new territory has been annexed and…

The members of the boards of township supervisors and the township clerks present at the meeting provided for in section 58-02-14 shall determine the amount due from the annexed territory to the township to which it has been annexed by taking into account the assets and liabiliti…

At the first annual township meeting after the consolidation of the townships or the consolidation of a township and a fraction of a township, there must be levied against the fraction of a township or township annexed the sum found to be due to the township to which the annexati…

A fractional township which contains more than eighteen sections of land and borders on a lake or river or any congressional township may be set off from the civil township of which it is a part if: 1. There are one hundred or more inhabitants residing in the proposed township; a…

The separation of a congressional township or fractional township from an organized civil township must be made only along congressional township lines.

A petition for the division of a township as provided in section 58-02-19, addressed to the board of county commissioners and signed by a majority of the qualified electors residing within the proposed township, may be presented to the board at any regular meeting of the board. N…

Upon presentation of the petition described in section 58-02-21, with proof of notice as provided in that section of the existence of the requirements for division and proof that the petition was signed by the requisite number of voters residing in the proposed township, the boar…

Within thirty days after the first election is held in a civil township established upon a petition described in section 58-02-21, the board of county commissioners, the county auditor, and a district judge designated by the presiding judge of the judicial district in which the n…

The division of a congressional or fractional township from an organized civil township does not prevent the enforcement of the obligations of the original township existing prior to the division.

If a petition asking for the dissolution of an organized civil township and setting forth the reasons therefor and signed by one-half of the qualified electors of such township is presented to the board of township supervisors at least ten days prior to the second Tuesday in Marc…

If the petition described in section 58-02-25 has been signed by the requisite number of qualified signers, the question of dissolution must be submitted to the voters of the township at the annual township meeting. A notice specifying the question of dissolution to be submitted …

The board of township supervisors shall preside at the meeting. The polls must be opened and closed as at other township meetings. The voters shall vote by ballot. The ballot used must be in the following form: Shall ____________________ township be dissolved? Yes ☐ No ☐ The resu…

If a majority of votes cast at the township meeting are in favor of dissolution, the township ceases to be a corporation on the next succeeding January first. After payment of the township's debts and liabilities, any funds on hand derived from property taxes levied by the townsh…

The dissolution of a township may not affect the rights of any person in any contract or agreement to which the township is a party.

The county auditor, upon dissolution of any civil township in the auditor's county, shall enter the fact of the dissolution upon the proper record book.

The fact that any petition required under any provision of this chapter is signed by the required number of signers residing in the territory described therein may be proved by the affidavit of any qualified elector residing in the territory and having knowledge of the facts.