8-6-5. Custody, preservation, and destruction of township records.
If no other provision is made by law, the township clerk shall duly file and safely keep all records and papers required by law to be filed by the township clerk. 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, §65; CL 1887, §777; RPolC 1903, §1071; SL 1913, ch 283, §1; RC 1919, §6094; SDC 1939, §58.0602; SL 1981, ch 45, §7; SL 1993, ch 69, §2.