Title 8, TOWNSHIPS

The provisions of §§ 8-10-10 to 8-10-12 , inclusive, shall not apply to any claim or demand for an annual salary or per diem of jurors or witnesses fixed by or in pursuance of any statute. Source: SL 1883, ch 112 , subch 1, § 87; CL 1887, § 800; RPolC 1903, § 1094; RC 1919, § 611…

Any member of a township board who shall audit and allow any account, claim, or demand, required by this title to be itemized and verified, without the same having been first duly itemized and verified, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. Source: SL 1883, ch 112 , subch 1, …

The board of supervisors shall audit all accounts payable by the township; if for any cause there are not three supervisors present, the chairman, or in his absence either of the supervisors, may notify the clerk of the township, who, together with the supervisors present, shall …

The board of supervisors shall meet on the last Tuesday of February and on the last Tuesday of October in each year, and at such other times as it deems necessary and expedient, for the purpose of auditing and settling all charges against the township; and it shall state on each …

The amount of any account audited and allowed by the board of supervisors, and the amount of any account voted to be allowed at any township meeting shall be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of such board signed by the chairman and countersigned by the clerk; and all warrants…

Every warrant for the payment of money issued by any township, which is not registered because of lack of funds with which to pay such warrant, shall be countersigned by the treasurer of such township, who shall also endorse on such warrant an order to the depository, by which su…

The township treasurer shall keep a suitable registry to be provided at the expense of the township in which he shall enter the warrants he cannot pay for want of funds when presented to him for payment, which registry shall show in a column arranged for that purpose the number, …

The township clerk shall notify the county auditor by the last day of March of the amount of the taxes levied by the board of supervisors. The county auditor shall enter the amount on the county tax list to be collected by the county treasurer as county taxes are collected. Sourc…

All warrants upon the township treasurer shall be paid out of the fund on which they were drawn in the order of presentation. Whenever any warrant is presented to the treasurer for payment and there are no funds in the treasury appropriated for that purpose, the treasurer shall e…

All such registered warrants shall be paid in the order of their registration and it shall be the duty of every such treasurer as soon as money sufficient for the payment of such warrants is received to the credit of the particular fund upon which the same are drawn, immediately …

The board of supervisors of any organized township may determine by resolution that interest shall be paid annually on all outstanding registered warrants of such township. When it has been so determined said board shall, at the time and in the manner provided for the levy of tax…

As soon as there is sufficient money in such special warrant interest fund to pay one year's interest on one or more outstanding warrants, the township treasurer shall notify the holder of the oldest registered warrant or warrants to present the same for payment of interest, and …

Any warrant holder who shall fail to present his warrant to the treasurer within thirty days after the treasurer shall have mailed him written notice to present the same, addressed to such holder's last known address, shall lose his right to payment in the order provided in § 8-1…

All interest payments shall be endorsed by the treasurer on the back of the warrant and the warrant holder shall execute and deliver duplicate receipts for such payment to the treasurer, who shall retain one and deliver the other forthwith to the township clerk. All registered wa…

No execution shall be issued upon any judgment for the recovery of money against the township, in any action or proceeding prosecuted by or against it, in its own name or the name of any of its officers for and on its behalf, but the same, unless reversed or stayed on appeal, sha…

The township treasurer shall keep a true account of all money by him received by virtue of his office, and the manner in which the same is disbursed, in a book provided by the township for that purpose, and exhibit such account, together with his vouchers, to the township board a…

The board of supervisors shall, at its regular meeting on the last Tuesday of February in each year, examine and audit the accounts of the treasurer; and it shall audit the accounts of all other officers who are authorized by law to receive or disburse any money of the township b…

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 t…

The county treasurer shall periodically remit any funds that have been received for the township to the depository designated by the township. The county auditor shall send to the township treasurer a statement showing the exact source and amount of such funds. Source: SL 1872-3,…

The township treasurer, within five days before the annual township meeting, shall prepare a report of the cash balance at the start of the fiscal year, receipts and disbursements for the fiscal year, and the cash balance and long - term debt as of the end of the fiscal year. The…

Every township treasurer, who refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of §§ 8-10-3 , 8-10-27 , and 8-10-30 , shall forfeit not more than two thousand dollars, to be recovered by a civil action in the name of the township, for its use and benefit in the circuit court. Th…

The provisions of § 8-10-7 or 8-10-8 or any other provision of law notwithstanding, any township may enter into a lease - purchase agreement for a term of years, not exceeding ten, for the purchase or lease by the municipality of real or personal property. Any lease - purchase ag…

A bona fide deposit of township funds in the name of the township in any bank or depository selected by a majority of the township voters, present and voting at any annual township meeting, shall relieve the township treasurer from liability and loss of such deposited funds throu…

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 th…

It shall be unlawful for the officers of any civil township, unless specially and expressly authorized by law, to contract any debt or incur any pecuniary liability for the payment of either the principal or interest for which, during the current year or any subsequent year, it w…

No township has power to contract debts or make expenditures for any one year in excess of the amount of taxes assessed for such year, without having been authorized by a majority of the voters of such township. Source: SL 1883, ch 112 , subch 1, § 115; CL 1887, § 829; RPolC 1903…

In all cases where appropriations of money have heretofore or may hereafter be made for periods longer than one year, it shall be unlawful for the person or persons whose duty it is to expend such appropriation, to audit, expend, or contract to pay more money in any one year than…