North Dakota Code 58-06-01 – General powers and duties of board of township supervisors
The board of township supervisors has the following powers and duties:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 58-06-01
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
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.