58-02 Creation, Consolidation, Division, and Dissolution - North Dakota Statutes

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CHAPTER 58-02CREATION, CONSOLIDATION, DIVISION, AND DISSOLUTION58-02-01. Organization of township - Petition - Election. If twenty-five percent of thequalified 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.58-02-02.Commissioners report to county auditor.The board of countycommissioners shall make and file a full report with the county auditor in relation to all its
proceedings in the establishment of a civil township.58-02-03.Name of township.A township must be named in accordance with theexpressed wish of a majority of the legal voters residing therein.If the legal voters fail todesignate a name, the board of county commissioners may select one.58-02-04. County auditor transmits name and report to state auditor. Repealed byS.L. 1987, ch. 262,