§ 58-02-01 — Organization of township - Petition - Election

If twenty-five percent of the qualified electors who voted for governor in the last general
election of a congressional township which has taxable valuation of more than twenty thousand
dollars and which contains twenty-five or more qualified electors petition the board of county
commissioners for the organization of the congressional township into a civil township, the
board of county commissioners shall then submit the question whether said township shall be
organized to the qualified electors in the congressional township. If twenty-five percent of the
qualified electors who voted for governor in the last general election of two or more neighboring
congressional townships which have an aggregate taxable valuation of more than twenty
thousand dollars and which contain an aggregate of twenty-five or more qualified electors
petition the board of county commissioners for the organization of the congressional townships
into a civil township, the board of county commissioners shall then submit the question whether
said township shall be organized to the qualified electors in the congressional townships. Thirty
days' published notice in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the township must be
given of the election. The board of county commissioners shall appoint the election officials
necessary for the election. If a majority of the votes cast approve of organization, the township
must then be organized, and if the petitions filed for organization did not designate a name, the
board of county commissioners shall select one.