The township clerk shall be clerk of the township board of supervisors and shall manage and file a true record of all its proceedings except the records for accounts maintained by the treasurer as prescribed in § 8-10-27 and when no other provision is made by law. 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.

Source: SL 1883, ch 112 , subch 1, § 83; CL 1887, § 796; RPolC 1903, § 1090; RC 1919, § 6111; SDC 1939, § 58.0604; SL 1981, ch 45 , § 6; SL 1993, ch 69 , § 1.