§ 58-06-01 — General powers and duties of board of township supervisors

The board of township supervisors has the following powers and duties:
1. To manage and control the affairs of the township not committed to other township
officers.
2. To draw orders on the township treasury for the disbursement of township funds.
3. To recommend to the electors the expenditure of a stated amount for the purpose of
purchasing building sites, and for purchasing, erecting, locating, or removing any
building, township hall, or library building for the use and benefit of the township.
4. When a city which is laid out into streets is included within the limits of the township, to
cause improvements to be made in any street that may be needed as a highway if the
city neglects to make the improvements.
5. To prosecute all actions upon bonds given to it or previous boards.
6. To sue for and collect all penalties and forfeitures incurred by any officer or inhabitant
of the township when no other provision is made.
7. To prosecute any action for trespass committed on any public enclosure, highway, or
property belonging to the township.
8. To pay all money collected by it for the township to the township treasurer.
9. To levy the annual taxes for the ensuing calendar year as voted at the annual township
meeting.
10. To grant to any person the right of way for the erection of telephone lines, electric light
systems, water or wastewater systems, or gas or oil pipeline systems over, under, or
upon public grounds, streets, alleys, or highways.
11. To appoint the township overseer of highways.
12. To purchase road machinery and tools.
13. To request assistance from a county or district board of health or the department of
environmental quality.
14. To perpetuate survey markings.
15. To erect and maintain guideposts on the highways and other ways within the township
at such places as are necessary or convenient for the direction of travelers.
16. To examine, compare, and balance the books of the township clerk and the treasurer
at the annual meeting in March of each year.
17. To pay all or a part of the cost of electricity used in electrically lighting the streets of
cities located within the township.
18. To insure the township's property which is not required to be insured against loss by
fire or tornado by the state fire and tornado fund in a stock or mutual fire insurance
company or in the state fire and tornado fund.
19. Repealed by S.L. 1989, ch. 559, § 7.
20. To submit a budget for the township at its annual meeting.
21. If the township activates its floodplain management authority under section 58-06-11,
to exercise floodplain management authority by enacting a floodplain management
ordinance.