Title 8 - TOWNSHIPS
- Chapter 01 - Establishment, Division, Organization And Disorganization Of Townships
- Section 8-1-1 - Continuation of existing townships.
- Section 8-1-10 - Election to decide reorganization, division, or merger of townships.
- Section 8-1-11 - Name of merged township or newly separated township.
- Section 8-1-12 - First annual meeting in newly separated township.
- Section 8-1-13 - Continuation of civil township from which separation made.
- Section 8-1-14 - Adjustment of assets and indebtedness after division, reorganization or merger oftownships.
- Section 8-1-15 - Board for adjustment and settlement after reorganization, division or merger oftownship.
- Section 8-1-16 - First meeting of board of adjustment.
- Section 8-1-17 - Powers of board of adjustment--Criteria for adjustment.
- Section 8-1-18 - Filing of determination by board of adjustment--Binding effect.
- Section 8-1-19 - Compensation of board of adjustment.
- Section 8-1-2 - Division of county into townships--Boundaries--Alterations.
- Section 8-1-20 - Petition for separation of village from civil township--Contents and number ofsigners.
- Section 8-1-21 - Notice of consideration by county commissioners of petition for separation of village.
- Section 8-1-22 - Hearing by county commissioners on separation of village from township--Decisionand determination of boundaries.
- Section 8-1-23 - Petition and election on abolition of township organization.
- Section 8-1-23.1 - Waiting period for filing petition of abolition.
- Section 8-1-24 - Abolition of township organization on approval by voters--Abstract of votes--Delivery of township property to county auditor.
- Section 8-1-25 - Deposit of money and property after abolition of township organization.
- Section 8-1-26 - Payment of indebtedness after abolition of township organization--Disposition ofproperty--Tax levy for outstanding indebtedness.
- Section 8-1-27 - Surplus funds expended for road work after abolition of township organization.
- Section 8-1-28 - Township with real property or bonded indebtedness not permitted to abolishorganization.
- Section 8-1-29 - Reestablishment of township--Reestablishment defined.
- Section 8-1-3 - Maximum size and minimum number of voters in civil township.
- Section 8-1-30 - Reestablishment of township proposed by county commissioners or petition ofvoters.
- Section 8-1-31 - Public hearing on reestablishment of township--Notice.
- Section 8-1-4 - Boundary descriptions recorded by county commissioners--Alterations in boundaries.
- Section 8-1-5 - Organization of civil township on petition of voters.
- Section 8-1-6 - Name of organized township.
- Section 8-1-7 - Reorganization, division or merger of civil townships authorized.
- Section 8-1-8 - Conditions for reorganization, division or merger of townships or of fractions oftownships--Petition by voters.
- Section 8-1-9 - Hearing to consider proposed reorganization, division or merger of township orfraction of township--Notice.
- Chapter 02 - Powers And Obligations Of Organized Townships
- Section 8-2-1 - General corporate and regulatory powers.
- Section 8-2-10 - Powers restricted to those expressly granted.
- Section 8-2-11 - Publication of township bylaws and changes--Effect.
- Section 8-2-12 - Remedies for trespass on township lands.
- Section 8-2-13 - Repealed.
- Section 8-2-14 - Deferred compensation program for volunteer firefighters--Establishment andmanagement--Participation optional.
- Section 8-2-15 - Regulation and maintenance of abandoned cemeteries.
- Section 8-2-2 - Transactions and conveyances in township name.
- Section 8-2-3 - Proceedings by and against township in township name.
- Section 8-2-4 - Defense of proceedings against township.
- Section 8-2-5 - Repealed.
- Section 8-2-6 - Township public library services.
- Section 8-2-7 - Liability insurance purchased by township.
- Section 8-2-8 - Regulatory powers of township containing unincorporated town.
- Section 8-2-9 - Regulatory powers of township adjacent to large municipality--Subordination topowers of county or municipality.
- Chapter 03 - Township Meetings And Elections
- Section 8-3-1 - Time and place of annual meeting--Publication of notice.
- Section 8-3-1.1 - Authority to require nominating petition.
- Section 8-3-1.2 - Filing nominating petition--Contents--Circulation prior to meeting.
- Section 8-3-1.3 - Publication of election notice.
- Section 8-3-1.4 - Notice in township of twenty or fewer resident voters.
- Section 8-3-10 - Order of business at meeting--Procedural rules.
- Section 8-3-11 - Filing of minutes of meeting.
- Section 8-3-12 - Supervisor elected at annual meeting--Representation of county seat town.
- Section 8-3-13 - Additional officers elected at annual meeting--Term of constable.
- Section 8-3-13.1 - Offices of the clerk and treasurer combined--Nomination and election--Powers andresponsibilities.
- Section 8-3-14 - Proclamation of opening of polls, adjournment and closing of polls.
- Section 8-3-15 - Method of electing officers.
- Section 8-3-16 - Conduct of voting by ballot.
- Section 8-3-17 - Canvass and return of voting by ballot.
- Section 8-3-17.1 - Absentee voting.
- Section 8-3-18 - Notice to persons elected to township office.
- Section 8-3-19 - Special meeting called by resident voters after failure to elect officers at annualmeeting.
- Section 8-3-2 - Powers of voters at annual meeting.
- Section 8-3-20 - Appointment of officers by county commissioners after failure of township to elect.
- Section 8-3-3 - Special meetings of township electors--Statement calling meeting.
- Section 8-3-4 - Recording and publication of notice of special meeting--Exception.
- Section 8-3-5 - Contents of notice of special meeting--Business restricted to stated purposes.
- Section 8-3-6 - Organization and officers of township meeting.
- Section 8-3-7 - Registration and residence required to vote at township meeting.
- Section 8-3-8 - Unlawful voting at meeting as misdemeanor.
- Section 8-3-9 - Determination of challenge to voter.
- Chapter 04 - Township Officers
- Section 8-4-1 - Eligibility to township office.
- Section 8-4-10 - Acceptance and notice of resignation by township officer.
- Section 8-4-11 - Filling of vacancy in township office.
- Section 8-4-2 - Repealed.
- Section 8-4-3 - Oath of office of township officers.
- Section 8-4-4 - Clerk to require elected officers to qualify--Refusal or neglect as petty offense.
- Section 8-4-5 - Failure to file oath or bond as refusal of office.
- Section 8-4-6 - Forfeiture for entry on office without taking oath.
- Section 8-4-7 - Term of office of officers.
- Section 8-4-8 - Salary and compensation of clerk, treasurer and supervisors.
- Section 8-4-9 - Fees of clerk in lieu of per diem.
- Chapter 05 - Township Board Of Supervisors
- Section 8-5-1 - Time and place of regular meetings of board.
- Section 8-5-10 - Hearing de novo on appeals--Judgment and order of circuit court.
- Section 8-5-11 - Appeals to Supreme Court.
- Section 8-5-12 - Appeal cumulative to other remedies.
- Section 8-5-2 - Business at board meetings--Special meetings--Filing of business with clerk.
- Section 8-5-3 - Quorum at meetings of board.
- Section 8-5-4 - General powers of board--Orders for disbursement of funds.
- Section 8-5-5 - Prosecution of actions for benefit of township--Trespass on township property.
- Section 8-5-6 - Equalization of township assessments.
- Section 8-5-7 - Repealed.
- Section 8-5-8 - Appeals from board of supervisors--Time of taking--Service and filing of notice.
- Section 8-5-9 - Transcript filed by board on appeals--Settlement and framing of issues.
- Chapter 06 - Township Clerk
- Section 8-6-1 - Bond required of clerk.
- Section 8-6-2 - Appointment of deputy clerk--Oath of office.
- Section 8-6-3 - Minutes of township meetings--Orders, rules, and regulations and accounts--Preservation--Destruction.
- Section 8-6-4 - Record of proceedings of supervisors--Preservation--Destruction.
- Section 8-6-5 - Custody, preservation, and destruction of township records.
- Section 8-6-6 - Oaths administered and acknowledgments taken by clerk.
- Section 8-6-7 - Filing annual fiscal report.
- Chapter 07 - Township Treasurer
- Chapter 08 - Township Constable
- Chapter 09 - Township Contracts And Purchases
- Section 8-9-1 - Contracts unlawful unless made at board meeting.
- Section 8-9-2 - Contract with township officer void--Removal from office.
- Section 8-9-3 - Purchase, lease, or lease purchase of equipment--Approval of voters.
- Section 8-9-4 - Fire protection contracts--Maximum term--Cost negotiated--Estimated costs--Amount of contract.
- Section 8-9-5 - Prior fire protection contracts validated.
- Section 8-9-6 - Corporations and associations authorized to provide fire protection.
- Chapter 10 - Township Fiscal Affairs
- Section 8-10-1 - Property tax levy.
- Section 8-10-10 - Verified statement required for claim against township--False verification as perjury.
- Section 8-10-11 - Officer before whom verification made--Personal representatives not required toverify.
- Section 8-10-12 - Examination and allowance of verified claims by township board.
- Section 8-10-13 - Verification not required for salaries and jurors' and witnesses' claims.
- Section 8-10-14 - Allowance of claim without verification as misdemeanor.
- Section 8-10-15 - Auditing of accounts payable--Clerk of the township replacing absent supervisor.
- Section 8-10-16 - Time of meetings for allowance of accounts--Statement of amount allowed.
- Section 8-10-17 - Warrants for accounts allowed.
- Section 8-10-18 - Endorsement of warrant for payment by depository.
- Section 8-10-19 - Register of warrants not paid on presentation--Data entered.
- Section 8-10-2 - Notice to county auditor of township tax levy--Entry on tax list.
- Section 8-10-20 - Warrants paid in order of presentation--Endorsement of warrants not paid--Interestrate.
- Section 8-10-21 - Call of registered warrants for payment--Termination of interest.
- Section 8-10-22 - Tax levy for annual payment of interest on warrants.
- Section 8-10-23 - Call of warrants for annual payment of interest.
- Section 8-10-24 - Loss of priority by failure to present warrant for annual interest.
- Section 8-10-25 - Endorsement of interest payments on warrant--Priority preserved though interest notpaid.
- Section 8-10-26 - Township exempt from execution--Payment of judgment by treasurer--Tax levy forpayment of judgment.
- Section 8-10-27 - Accounts maintained by treasurer--Exhibition to township board.
- Section 8-10-28 - Examination by board of accounts of treasurer and officers handling money.
- Section 8-10-29 - Report of fiscal affairs by board--Reading and publication of report.
- Section 8-10-3 - Township funds remitted by county treasurer.
- Section 8-10-30 - Treasurer's annual financial statement--Contents--Filing.
- Section 8-10-31 - Forfeiture by treasurer for neglect of duty.
- Section 8-10-4 - Repealed.
- Section 8-10-5 - Selection of township depository--Exoneration of treasurer for losses in depositedfunds.
- Section 8-10-6 - Purposes for which township funds expended.
- Section 8-10-7 - Expenditures exceeding maximum tax levy unlawful--Contracts void--Liability ofofficer authorizing contract--Recording of dissent.
- Section 8-10-8 - Township expenditures limited by annual tax levy.
- Section 8-10-9 - Proration of appropriations for more than one year.
- Chapter 11 - Township Bonds
- Section 8-11-3 - Authorization, issuance and sale--Vote required.
- Section 8-11-4 - Refunding bonds issued on judgment against township--Compromise with judgmentcreditor.
- Section 8-11-7 - Tax levy for retirement of bonds--Special fund.
- Section 8-11-8 - Investment of township debt service funds--Tax levy for bonds in debt service fund.
- Sections 8-11-1, 8-11-2 - Repealed
- Sections 8-11-5, 8-11-6 - Repealed