See also TOWN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Absentee voting, duties, see ABSENTEE VOTING
Appeal and equalization boards, meetings, Minn. Statutes 2022 274.01, 274.03
Audits and examinations
Contested claims, copies, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2022 6.59
Costs, collection, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2022 6.57
Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2022 6.55
Auxiliary forests, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2022 88.49
Bonds (officers and fiduciaries)
Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.10
Filing and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.23, 367.25
Peace officers' bonds, terms of, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.22
Campaign financing, duties, Minn. Statutes 2022 211A.02, 211A.05, 211A.09, 211B.17
Certificates of indebtedness, equipment purchases, Minn. Statutes 2022 368.01
Clerk-treasurers, see Option D towns, combined with treasurer's office under this topic
Compensation and salaries
Determination of, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.05
Elections, recounts, Minn. Statutes 2022 204C.35, 204C.36
Conflicts of interest, violations, penalties, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.37
County seats, changing, referendum, Minn. Statutes 2022 372.06
Deeds, formalities and procedures, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.05
Definitions
Campaign finance reporting, Minn. Statutes 2022 211A.01
Elections, Minn. Statutes 2022 200.02
Deputy clerks
Appointment and general duties, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.12
Compensation and salaries, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.05
Dissolution of town, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2022 368.47
Documents
Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.11
New town organization, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.14
Dog licenses, duties, Minn. Statutes 2022 347.11, 347.12, 347.19
Duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.11
Election contests, Minn. Statutes 2022 209.021, 209.05
Election judges, Minn. Statutes 2022 204B.19, 204B.195, 204B.23
Elections
Deceptive practices, reports received, Minn. Statutes 2022 204C.035
Publications and instructions, copies to, Minn. Statutes 2022 204B.27
Elections emergency, combined polling place, duties, Minn. Statutes 2022 204B.14
Elections messengers, Minn. Statutes 2022 204C.29
Electronic voting systems, duties, see ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS
Filing with
Absentee ballot applications, Australian ballot system elections, Minn. Statutes 2022 203B.05
Annexation ordinances and petitions, Minn. Statutes 2022 414.033
Audits and examinations, reports, Minn. Statutes 2022 6.51
Bridges from islands in meandered lakes, plans and specifications, Minn. Statutes 2022 164.15
Campaign financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2022 211A.02
Certificates of indebtedness, Minn. Statutes 2022 366.095
County highways, resolutions for abandonment, Minn. Statutes 2022 163.11
County seats, changing, notice of referendum, Minn. Statutes 2022 372.05
Damage claims, dogs, damage to domestic animals, Minn. Statutes 2022 347.15
Duplicate warrants, affidavits, Minn. Statutes 2022 471.415
Elections, recounts, Minn. Statutes 2022 204C.35, 204C.36
Estrays, Minn. Statutes 2022 346.02, 346.03
Financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2022 471.697
Hospital district board candidates, affidavits of candidacy, Minn. Statutes 2022 447.32
Itemized statements, repair of town bridges by counties, Minn. Statutes 2022 165.12
Land, applications for dedication for roads or cartways, Minn. Statutes 2022 164.15
Law enforcement officials, bonds, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.22
Lawsuits, statements of claims, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.38
Major purchases, petition for election, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.025
Minutes, town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.55
Model codes adopted by reference, Minn. Statutes 2022 471.62
Municipal elections, Minn. Statutes 2022 205.13
Notice of election to separate from statutory city, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.44
Oaths of office, Minn. Statutes 2022 358.11
Official maps of land for public use, Minn. Statutes 2022 394.361
Petition to dissolve town, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.45
Pounds, receipts of animal sales, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.24
Property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2022 276.11
Rabies proclamations, Minn. Statutes 2022 35.68
Redistricting plans, Minn. Statutes 2022 2.91
Resolutions approving subdivision of land outside municipality, Minn. Statutes 2022 462.36
Road construction, Minn. Statutes 2022 160.17
Special town meetings, notice, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.52
State statutes and rules adopted by reference, Minn. Statutes 2022 471.62
Tax records, Minn. Statutes 2022 368.85
Timely delivery, Minn. Statutes 2022 645.151
Town cemeteries, maps and plats, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.26
Town officers, bonds, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.23
Town roads, Minn. Statutes 2022 164.07
Town treasurer's statement of payments, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.16
Unearned wages, Minn. Statutes 2022 181.07
Volunteer firefighter relief associations, actuarial valuations, Minn. Statutes 2022 424A.093
Fires
Causes, origins, and circumstances, Minn. Statutes 2022 299F.04
Violations, Minn. Statutes 2022 299F.20
Funds and accounts
Audited accounts, payment and form, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.18
Deposits, Minn. Statutes 2022 366.01
Posting and reading of financial statement, Minn. Statutes 2022 366.22
Town board of audit, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2022 366.21
General elections, duties, see GENERAL ELECTIONS
Hearings, city councils, Minn. Statutes 2022 435.19
Help America Vote Act, complaints procedures, Minn. Statutes 2022 200.04
Hospital district resolutions, Minn. Statutes 2022 447.31
Hours for voting, Minn. Statutes 2022 204C.05, 205.175
Indigent persons, application for hospitalization, duties, Minn. Statutes 2022 261.22
Lawsuits against town, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.40
Liquor licensees, convictions, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2022 340A.905
Local election official, defined, Minn. Statutes 2022 200.02
Messengers, see under ELECTIONS
Metropolitan towns
Duties generally, Minn. Statutes 2022 368.01
Election in alternate years, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.03
Municipal clerks
Town clerks defined as, Minn. Statutes 2022 203B.01
Voting, see VOTING
Municipal elections, duties, see MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
New towns, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.14
News media, and elections, duties,, Minn. Statutes 2022 204C.06, 206.85
Notaries public, powers of, Minn. Statutes 2022 358.15
Notices of election, Minn. Statutes 2022 204B.34, 204D.22
Oaths
Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.10
Filing and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.25
Power to administer, Minn. Statutes 2022 358.10
Office hours, elections, Minn. Statutes 2022 203B.085
Offices, location, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.13
Optical scan voting systems, testing, Minn. Statutes 2022 206.83
Option B towns
Appointment procedures, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.30
Election, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.03
Incumbent clerks, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.34
Option C towns, town administrator, designation as, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.35
Option D towns, combined with treasurer's office
Abandonment, duties, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.36
Adoption by election, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.30, 367.31, 367.34, 367.36
Appointment, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.30
Duties of, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.36
Election of clerk-treasurer, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.30, 367.31, 367.34, 367.36
Terms of office, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.03
Town treasurer as incumbent, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.30, 367.36
Optional plans, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.31
Ordinances, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.125, 368.01, 599.13
Polling places, duties, see POLLING PLACES
Posting (notices), duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.11
Public improvements, cancellation, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2022 435.202
Rabies proclamations, posting and publication, Minn. Statutes 2022 35.68
Records and record keeping
Annexation, joint information meetings, Minn. Statutes 2022 414.0333
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.11
Voter registration, see Records and record keeping under VOTER REGISTRATION
Refunds, Minn. Statutes 2022 435.202
Removal, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.37
Reports given
Dog licenses, Minn. Statutes 2022 347.12, 347.19
Electronic voting systems, plans, Minn. Statutes 2022 206.82
Financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2022 471.76
Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2022 471.697
Statement of tax collections, Minn. Statutes 2022 471.69
Town board of audit, financial report, Minn. Statutes 2022 366.21
Voter registration, violations, Minn. Statutes 2022 201.27
Representatives, election observers, conduct at polling places, Minn. Statutes 2022 204C.06
Roads taken over as trunk highways, proceedings, documents, and plats, Minn. Statutes 2022 161.19
Special elections, duties, see SPECIAL ELECTIONS
Special fire protection districts, dissolution, Minn. Statutes 2022 368.85
Special or local laws, approval, Minn. Statutes 2022 645.021
Special town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.53
Specific parts of land, conveyances, subdivisions, Minn. Statutes 2022 272.162
State Building Code, enforcement, notice, Minn. Statutes 2022 326B.121
Subdivision regulations, Minn. Statutes 2022 462.358
Subordinate service districts, duties, Minn. Statutes 2022 365A.04, 365A.095
Surety bonds, Minn. Statutes 2022 368.01
Taconite municipal aid, distribution, Minn. Statutes 2022 298.282
Tax-forfeited lands, declaration of reversion, notice, Minn. Statutes 2022 282.01
Town bridges, Minn. Statutes 2022 164.12, 164.15
Town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.51, 365.53, 365.55
Town officers, resignations, notice, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.02
Town real estate assessment rolls, reports received, Minn. Statutes 2022 274.18
Town roads
Impassable roads, complaints, Minn. Statutes 2022 163.16
Maps, Minn. Statutes 2022 164.35
Petitions to establish, alter or vacate, Minn. Statutes 2022 164.07
Towns, petitions to form or change, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2022 379.03
Training for election officials, Minn. Statutes 2022 204B.25, 204B.28
Vacancies in office, Minn. Statutes 2022 367.03
Violations and penalties
Conflicts of interest, Minn. Statutes 2022 365.37, 609B.180
Elections, Minn. Statutes 2022 201.27, 204C.41, 211A.05
Voter registration violations, failure to report, Minn. Statutes 2022 201.27
Voting machines and systems, rules or laws, violations, Minn. Statutes 2022 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 2022 206.66
Voting precincts
Boundary corrections, Minn. Statutes 2022 204B.14, 204B.146
Maps, duties, Minn. Statutes 2022 201.061, 204B.14
Voting returns, summary statements, Minn. Statutes 2022 204C.26, 204C.27
Voting systems, Minn. Statutes 2022 206.82, 206.83, 206.85
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, comprehensive plan, notice, Minn. Statutes 2022 458D.05