Title 8 — TOWNSHIPS

Each organized township in the state is a body corporate and has power: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) To acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or other lawful means, real property within or without the limits of the township, necessary or convenient for township purposes, or for the …

No organized township shall possess or exercise any powers except such as are enumerated in this chapter, or are especially given by law or are necessary to the exercise of the powers so enumerated or granted. Source: SL 1872-3, ch 51 , § 9; PolC 1877, ch 23, § 8; SL 1883, ch 112…

No bylaw made by any township shall take effect before the publication thereof for three consecutive days in a daily, or for two consecutive weeks in a weekly newspaper of general circulation in said township; and such bylaws, duly made and so published, are binding upon all pers…

Whenever any action is brought to recover a penalty imposed for any trespass committed on the lands belonging to the township, if it appears on the trial thereof that the actual amount of injury to such lands in consequence of such trespass exceeds the sum of twelve dollars and f…

Any township with a volunteer fire department may establish a deferred compensation program for its volunteer firefighters. Such a program may be financed by the township or by the volunteer firefighters and may be managed through the township or through an insurance company or o…

Any township with volunteer advanced life support personnel may establish a deferred compensation program for its volunteer advanced life support personnel. Such a program may be financed by the township or by the volunteer advanced life support personnel and may be managed throu…

The township board of supervisors may regulate and maintain abandoned rural cemeteries within their township. The regulation and maintenance may include the mowing and cutting of weeds and grass, the repairing of fences and corrective measures relative to grave markers. Funds nec…

A township may enroll in any group health insurance plan, group life insurance plan, or group disability income insurance plan permitted by law to be offered in this state for township officers and any employee of the township who is employed for a minimum of one thousand forty h…

All transactions by or with a township in its corporate capacity shall be conducted in the name of such township, but any conveyance of land within the limits of such township, made in any manner for the use and benefit of its inhabitants, shall have the same effect as if made to…

In all actions and proceedings the township shall sue and be sued by its name, except where township officers are authorized by law to sue in their official capacity for the benefit of the township. Source: SL 1883, ch 112 , subch 1, § 92; CL 1887, § 805; RPolC 1903, § 1099; RC 1…

Each organized township in the state has power to provide for public library services, subject however to the same conditions as provided in chapter 14-2 , and all provisions of such chapter, so far as reasonably adapted to townships, apply with reference to the establishment, ma…

Any township in this state may, through its board of supervisors, when and to the extent deemed expedient by said board, obtain and pay for public liability insurance insuring the township, its board, officers, and employees from any and all claims for damages arising from or cau…

Each organized township in the state has power, when an unincorporated town is within its limits: (1) To regulate the laying of sidewalks and crosswalks along, over, or across the streets and alleys thereof; (2) To regulate the depositing of garbage, ashes, offal, or any offensiv…

Each organized township in the state has power, when a municipality with a population of fifty thousand or more is within four miles of the township: (1) To regulate the depositing of garbage, ashes, offal, or any offensive matter which might endanger the health of its inhabitant…