See also TOWN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Absentee voting, duties, see ABSENTEE VOTING
Appeal and equalization boards, meetings, Minn. Statutes 2020 274.01, 274.03
Audits and examinations
Contested claims, copies, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2020 6.59
Costs, collection, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2020 6.57
Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2020 6.55
Auxiliary forests, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2020 88.49
Bonds (officers and fiduciaries)
Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.10
Filing and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.23, 367.25
Peace officers' bonds, terms of, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.22
Campaign financing, duties, Minn. Statutes 2020 211A.02, 211A.05, 211A.09, 211B.17
Certificates of indebtedness, equipment purchases, Minn. Statutes 2020 368.01
Clerk-treasurers, see Option D towns, combined with treasurer's office under this topic
Compensation and salaries
Determination of, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.05
Elections, recounts, Minn. Statutes 2020 204C.35, 204C.36
Conflicts of interest, violations, penalties, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.37
County seats, changing, referendum, Minn. Statutes 2020 372.06
Deeds, formalities and procedures, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.05
Definitions
Campaign finance reporting, Minn. Statutes 2020 211A.01
Elections, Minn. Statutes 2020 200.02
Deputy clerks
Appointment and general duties, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.12
Compensation and salaries, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.05
Dissolution of town, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2020 368.47
Documents
Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.11
New town organization, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.14
Dog licenses, duties, Minn. Statutes 2020 347.11, 347.12, 347.19
Duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.11
Election contests, Minn. Statutes 2020 209.021, 209.05
Election judges, Minn. Statutes 2020 204B.19, 204B.195, 204B.23
Elections
Deceptive practices, reports received, Minn. Statutes 2020 204C.035
Publications and instructions, copies to, Minn. Statutes 2020 204B.27
Elections emergency, combined polling place, duties, Minn. Statutes 2020 204B.14
Elections messengers, Minn. Statutes 2020 204C.29
Electronic voting systems, duties, see ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS
Filing with
Absentee ballot applications, Australian ballot system elections, Minn. Statutes 2020 203B.05
Annexation ordinances and petitions, Minn. Statutes 2020 414.033
Audits and examinations, reports, Minn. Statutes 2020 6.51
Bridges from islands in meandered lakes, plans and specifications, Minn. Statutes 2020 164.15
Campaign financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2020 211A.02
Certificates of indebtedness, Minn. Statutes 2020 366.095
County highways, resolutions for abandonment, Minn. Statutes 2020 163.11
County seats, changing, notice of referendum, Minn. Statutes 2020 372.05
Damage claims, dogs, damage to domestic animals, Minn. Statutes 2020 347.15
Duplicate warrants, affidavits, Minn. Statutes 2020 471.415
Elections, recounts, Minn. Statutes 2020 204C.35, 204C.36
Estrays, Minn. Statutes 2020 346.02, 346.03
Financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2020 471.697
Hospital district board candidates, affidavits of candidacy, Minn. Statutes 2020 447.32
Itemized statements, repair of town bridges by counties, Minn. Statutes 2020 165.12
Land, applications for dedication for roads or cartways, Minn. Statutes 2020 164.15
Law enforcement officials, bonds, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.22
Lawsuits, statements of claims, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.38
Major purchases, petition for election, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.025
Minutes, town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.55
Model codes adopted by reference, Minn. Statutes 2020 471.62
Municipal elections, Minn. Statutes 2020 205.13
Notice of election to separate from statutory city, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.44
Oaths of office, Minn. Statutes 2020 358.11
Official maps of land for public use, Minn. Statutes 2020 394.361
Petition to dissolve town, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.45
Pounds, receipts of animal sales, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.24
Property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2020 276.11
Rabies proclamations, Minn. Statutes 2020 35.68
Redistricting plans, Minn. Statutes 2020 2.91
Resolutions approving subdivision of land outside municipality, Minn. Statutes 2020 462.36
Road construction, Minn. Statutes 2020 160.17
Special town meetings, notice, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.52
State statutes and rules adopted by reference, Minn. Statutes 2020 471.62
Tax records, Minn. Statutes 2020 368.85
Timely delivery, Minn. Statutes 2020 645.151
Town cemeteries, maps and plats, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.26
Town officers, bonds, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.23
Town roads, Minn. Statutes 2020 164.07
Town treasurer's statement of payments, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.16
Unearned wages, Minn. Statutes 2020 181.07
Volunteer firefighter relief associations, actuarial valuations, Minn. Statutes 2020 424A.093
Fires
Causes, origins, and circumstances, Minn. Statutes 2020 299F.04
Violations, Minn. Statutes 2020 299F.20
Funds and accounts
Audited accounts, payment and form, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.18
Deposits, Minn. Statutes 2020 366.01
Posting and reading of financial statement, Minn. Statutes 2020 366.22
Town board of audit, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2020 366.21
General elections, duties, see GENERAL ELECTIONS
Hearings, city councils, Minn. Statutes 2020 435.19
Help America Vote Act, complaints procedures, Minn. Statutes 2020 200.04
Hospital district resolutions, Minn. Statutes 2020 447.31
Hours for voting, Minn. Statutes 2020 204C.05, 205.175
Indigent persons, application for hospitalization, duties, Minn. Statutes 2020 261.22
Lawsuits against town, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.40
Liquor licensees, convictions, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2020 340A.905
Local election official, defined, Minn. Statutes 2020 200.02
Messengers, see under ELECTIONS
Metropolitan towns
Duties generally, Minn. Statutes 2020 368.01
Election in alternate years, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.03
Municipal clerks
Town clerks defined as, Minn. Statutes 2020 203B.01
Voting, see VOTING
Municipal elections, duties, see MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
New towns, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.14
News media, and elections, duties,, Minn. Statutes 2020 204C.06, 206.85
Notaries public, powers of, Minn. Statutes 2020 358.15
Notices of election, Minn. Statutes 2020 204B.34, 204D.22
Oaths
Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.10
Filing and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.25
Power to administer, Minn. Statutes 2020 358.10
Office hours, elections, Minn. Statutes 2020 203B.085
Offices, location, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.13
Optical scan voting systems, testing, Minn. Statutes 2020 206.83
Option B towns
Appointment procedures, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.30
Election, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.03
Incumbent clerks, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.34
Option C towns, town administrator, designation as, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.35
Option D towns, combined with treasurer's office
Abandonment, duties, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.36
Adoption by election, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.30, 367.31, 367.34, 367.36
Appointment, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.30
Duties of, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.36
Election of clerk-treasurer, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.30, 367.31, 367.34, 367.36
Terms of office, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.03
Town treasurer as incumbent, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.30, 367.36
Optional plans, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.31
Ordinances, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.125, 368.01, 599.13
Polling places, duties, see POLLING PLACES
Posting (notices), duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.11
Public improvements, cancellation, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2020 435.202
Rabies proclamations, posting and publication, Minn. Statutes 2020 35.68
Records and record keeping
Annexation, joint information meetings, Minn. Statutes 2020 414.0333
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.11
Voter registration, see Records and record keeping under VOTER REGISTRATION
Refunds, Minn. Statutes 2020 435.202
Removal, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.37
Reports given
Dog licenses, Minn. Statutes 2020 347.12, 347.19
Electronic voting systems, plans, Minn. Statutes 2020 206.82
Financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2020 471.76
Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2020 471.697
Statement of tax collections, Minn. Statutes 2020 471.69
Town board of audit, financial report, Minn. Statutes 2020 366.21
Voter registration, violations, Minn. Statutes 2020 201.27
Representatives, election observers, conduct at polling places, Minn. Statutes 2020 204C.06
Roads taken over as trunk highways, proceedings, documents, and plats, Minn. Statutes 2020 161.19
Special elections, duties, see SPECIAL ELECTIONS
Special fire protection districts, dissolution, Minn. Statutes 2020 368.85
Special or local laws, approval, Minn. Statutes 2020 645.021
Special town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.53
Specific parts of land, conveyances, subdivisions, Minn. Statutes 2020 272.162
State Building Code, enforcement, notice, Minn. Statutes 2020 326B.121
Subdivision regulations, Minn. Statutes 2020 462.358
Subordinate service districts, duties, Minn. Statutes 2020 365A.04, 365A.095
Surety bonds, Minn. Statutes 2020 368.01
Taconite municipal aid, distribution, Minn. Statutes 2020 298.282
Tax-forfeited lands, declaration of reversion, notice, Minn. Statutes 2020 282.01
Town bridges, Minn. Statutes 2020 164.12, 164.15
Town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.51, 365.53, 365.55
Town officers, resignations, notice, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.02
Town real estate assessment rolls, reports received, Minn. Statutes 2020 274.18
Town roads
Impassable roads, complaints, Minn. Statutes 2020 163.16
Maps, Minn. Statutes 2020 164.35
Petitions to establish, alter or vacate, Minn. Statutes 2020 164.07
Towns, petitions to form or change, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2020 379.03
Training for election officials, Minn. Statutes 2020 204B.25, 204B.28
Vacancies in office, Minn. Statutes 2020 367.03
Violations and penalties
Conflicts of interest, Minn. Statutes 2020 365.37, 609B.180
Elections, Minn. Statutes 2020 201.27, 204C.41, 211A.05
Voter registration violations, failure to report, Minn. Statutes 2020 201.27
Voting machines and systems, rules or laws, violations, Minn. Statutes 2020 206.66
Voter registration duties, see VOTER REGISTRATION
Voting, duties, see VOTING
Voting machines and systems
Duties, see VOTING MACHINES AND SYSTEMS
Rules or laws, violations, Minn. Statutes 2020 206.66
Voting precincts
Boundary corrections, Minn. Statutes 2020 204B.14, 204B.146
Maps, duties, Minn. Statutes 2020 201.061, 204B.14
Voting returns, summary statements, Minn. Statutes 2020 204C.26, 204C.27
Voting systems, Minn. Statutes 2020 206.82, 206.83, 206.85
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, comprehensive plan, notice, Minn. Statutes 2020 458D.05