South Dakota § 8-6-3 Minutes of township meetings--Orders, rules, and regulations and accounts--Preservation--Destruction.

South Dakota Statutes

§ 8-6-3 — Minutes of township meetings--Orders, rules, and regulations and accounts--Preservation--Destruction.

South Dakota § 8-6-3

Title 8TOWNSHIPS

Ch. 8-6TOWNSHIP CLERK

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Bluebook

S.D. Codified Laws § 8-6-3 (2026).

Text

The township clerk shall record, in the book of records of his township, minutes of the proceedings of every township meeting, and he shall enter therein every order or direction and all rules and regulations of any such meeting, and shall also file and preserve all accounts audited by the township board or allowed at a township meeting, and enter a statement thereof in such book of records. However, the township clerk may destroy any record which the records destruction board, acting pursuant to § 1-27-19 , declares to have no further administrative, legal, fiscal, research, or historical value.

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The township clerk shall record, in the book of records of his township, minutes of the proceedings of every township meeting, and he shall enter therein every order or direction and all rules and regulations of any such meeting, and shall also file and preserve all accounts audited by the township board or allowed at a township meeting, and enter a statement thereof in such book of records. However, the township clerk may destroy any record which the records destruction board, acting pursuant to § 1-27-19 , declares to have no further administrative, legal, fiscal, research, or historical value.

Legislative History

SL 1872-3, ch 51, § 63; PolC 1877, ch 23, § 60; SL 1883, ch 112, subch 1, § 66; CL 1887, § 778; RPolC 1903, § 1072; RC 1919, § 6095; SDC 1939, § 58.0603; SL 1981, ch 45, § 5.