TOWN CLERKS

See also TOWN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Absentee voting, duties, see ABSENTEE VOTING

Appeal and equalization boards, meetings, Minn. Statutes 2025 274.01, 274.03

Audits and examinations

Contested claims, copies, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2025 6.59

Costs, collection, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 6.57

Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2025 6.55

Auxiliary forests, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 88.49

Bonds (officers and fiduciaries)

Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.10

Filing and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.23, 367.25

Peace officers' bonds, terms of, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.22

Campaign financing, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 211A.02, 211A.05, 211A.09, 211B.17

Certificates of indebtedness, equipment purchases, Minn. Statutes 2025 368.01

Clerk-treasurers, see Option D towns, combined with treasurer's office under this topic

Compensation and salaries

Determination of, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.05

Elections, recounts, Minn. Statutes 2025 204C.35, 204C.36

Conflicts of interest, violations, penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.37

County seats, changing, referendum, Minn. Statutes 2025 372.06

Deeds, formalities and procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.05

Definitions

Campaign finance reporting, Minn. Statutes 2025 211A.01

Elections, Minn. Statutes 2025 200.02

Deputy clerks

Appointment and general duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.12

Compensation and salaries, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.05

Dissolution of town, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2025 368.47

Documents

Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.11

New town organization, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.14

Dog licenses, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 347.11, 347.12, 347.19

Duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.11

Election contests, Minn. Statutes 2025 209.021, 209.05

Election judges, Minn. Statutes 2025 204B.19, 204B.195, 204B.23

Election officials, removal of, Minn. Statutes 2025 204B.26

Elections

Deceptive practices, reports received, Minn. Statutes 2025 204C.035

Early voting, hours of service, Minn. Statutes 2025 203B.085

Intimidation and interference with duties, violations and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 211B.076

Personal information, dissemination, Minn. Statutes 2025 211B.076

Publications and instructions, copies to, Minn. Statutes 2025 204B.27

Voting Rights Act, Minn. Statutes 2025 200.54

Elections emergency, combined polling place, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 204B.14

Elections messengers, Minn. Statutes 2025 204C.29

Electronic voting systems, duties, see ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS

Filing with

Absentee ballot applications, Australian ballot system elections, Minn. Statutes 2025 203B.05

Annexation ordinances and petitions, Minn. Statutes 2025 414.033

Audits and examinations, reports, Minn. Statutes 2025 6.51

Bridges from islands in meandered lakes, plans and specifications, Minn. Statutes 2025 164.15

Campaign financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2025 211A.02

Certificates of indebtedness, Minn. Statutes 2025 366.095

County highways, resolutions for abandonment, Minn. Statutes 2025 163.11

County seats, changing, notice of referendum, Minn. Statutes 2025 372.05

Damage claims, dogs, damage to domestic animals, Minn. Statutes 2025 347.15

Duplicate warrants, affidavits, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.415

Elections, recounts, Minn. Statutes 2025 204C.35, 204C.36

Estrays, Minn. Statutes 2025 346.03

Financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.697

Firefighters relief associations, actuarial valuations, Minn. Statutes 2025 424A.093

Hospital district board candidates, affidavits of candidacy, Minn. Statutes 2025 447.32

Itemized statements, repair of town bridges by counties, Minn. Statutes 2025 165.12

Land, applications for dedication for roads or cartways, Minn. Statutes 2025 164.15

Law enforcement officials, bonds, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.22

Lawsuits, statements of claims, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.38

Major purchases, petition for election, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.025

Minutes, town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.55

Model codes adopted by reference, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.62

Municipal elections, Minn. Statutes 2025 205.13

Notice of election to separate from statutory city, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.44

Oaths of office, Minn. Statutes 2025 358.11

Official maps of land for public use, Minn. Statutes 2025 394.361

Petition to dissolve town, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.45

Pounds, receipts of animal sales, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.24

Property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2025 276.11

Redistricting plans, Minn. Statutes 2025 2.91

Resolutions approving subdivision of land outside municipality, Minn. Statutes 2025 462.36

Road construction, Minn. Statutes 2025 160.17

Special town meetings, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.52

State statutes and rules adopted by reference, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.62

Tax records, Minn. Statutes 2025 368.85

Timely delivery, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.151

Town cemeteries, maps and plats, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.26

Town officers, bonds, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.23

Town roads, Minn. Statutes 2025 164.07

Town treasurer's statement of payments, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.16

Unearned wages, Minn. Statutes 2025 181.07

Fires

Causes, origins, and circumstances, Minn. Statutes 2025 299F.04

Violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 299F.20

Funds and accounts

Audited accounts, payment and form, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.18

Deposits, Minn. Statutes 2025 366.01

Posting and reading of financial statement, Minn. Statutes 2025 366.22

Town board of audit, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2025 366.21

General elections, duties, see GENERAL ELECTIONS

Hearings, city councils, Minn. Statutes 2025 435.19

Help America Vote Act, complaints procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 200.04

Hospital district resolutions, Minn. Statutes 2025 447.31

Hours for voting, Minn. Statutes 2025 204C.05, 205.175

Indigent persons, application for hospitalization, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 261.22

Lawsuits against town, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.40

Liquor licensees, convictions, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 340A.905

Local election official, defined, Minn. Statutes 2025 200.02

Messengers, see under ELECTIONS

Metropolitan towns

Duties generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 368.01

Election in alternate years, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.03

Municipal clerks

Town clerks defined as, Minn. Statutes 2025 203B.01

Voting, see VOTING

Municipal elections, duties, see MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

New towns, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.14

News media, and elections, duties,, Minn. Statutes 2025 204C.06, 206.85

Notaries public, powers of, Minn. Statutes 2025 358.15

Notices of election, Minn. Statutes 2025 204B.34, 204D.22

Oaths

Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.10

Filing and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.25

Power to administer, Minn. Statutes 2025 358.10

Office hours, elections, Minn. Statutes 2025 203B.085

Offices, location, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.13

Optical scan voting systems, testing, Minn. Statutes 2025 206.83

Option B towns

Appointment procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.30

Election, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.03

Incumbent clerks, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.34

Option C towns, town administrator, designation as, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.35

Option D towns, combined with treasurer's office

Abandonment, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.36

Adoption by election, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.30, 367.31, 367.34, 367.36

Appointment, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.30

Duties of, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.36

Election of clerk-treasurer, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.30, 367.31, 367.34, 367.36

Terms of office, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.03

Town treasurer as incumbent, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.30, 367.36

Optional plans, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.31

Ordinances, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.125, 368.01, 599.13

Polling places, duties, see POLLING PLACES

Posting (notices), duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.11

Public improvements, cancellation, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 435.202

Records and record keeping

Annexation, joint information meetings, Minn. Statutes 2025 414.0333

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.11

Voter registration, see Records and record keeping under VOTER REGISTRATION

Refunds, Minn. Statutes 2025 435.202

Removal, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.37

Reports given

Dog licenses, Minn. Statutes 2025 347.12, 347.19

Electronic voting systems, plans, Minn. Statutes 2025 206.82

Financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.76

Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.697

Statement of tax collections, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.69

Town board of audit, financial report, Minn. Statutes 2025 366.21

Voter registration, violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 201.27

Representatives, election observers, conduct at polling places, Minn. Statutes 2025 204C.06

Roads taken over as trunk highways, proceedings, documents, and plats, Minn. Statutes 2025 161.19

Special elections, duties, see SPECIAL ELECTIONS

Special fire protection districts, dissolution, Minn. Statutes 2025 368.85

Special or local laws, approval, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.021

Special town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.53

Specific parts of land, conveyances, subdivisions, Minn. Statutes 2025 272.162

State Building Code, enforcement, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 326B.121

Subdivision regulations, Minn. Statutes 2025 462.358

Subordinate service districts, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 365A.04, 365A.095

Surety bonds, Minn. Statutes 2025 368.01

Taconite municipal aid, distribution, Minn. Statutes 2025 298.282

Tax-forfeited lands, declaration of reversion, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 282.01

Town bridges, Minn. Statutes 2025 164.12, 164.15

Town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.51, 365.53, 365.55

Town officers, resignations, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.02

Town real estate assessment rolls, reports received, Minn. Statutes 2025 274.18

Town roads

Impassable roads, complaints, Minn. Statutes 2025 163.16

Maps, Minn. Statutes 2025 164.35

Petitions to establish, alter or vacate, Minn. Statutes 2025 164.07

Towns, petitions to form or change, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 379.03

Training for election officials, Minn. Statutes 2025 204B.25, 204B.28

Vacancies in office, Minn. Statutes 2025 367.03

Violations and penalties

Conflicts of interest, Minn. Statutes 2025 365.37

Elections, Minn. Statutes 2025 201.27, 204C.41, 211A.05

Voter registration violations, failure to report, Minn. Statutes 2025 201.27

Voting machines and systems, rules or laws, violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 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 2025 206.66

Voting precincts

Boundary corrections, Minn. Statutes 2025 204B.14, 204B.146

Maps, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 201.061, 204B.14

Voting returns, summary statements, Minn. Statutes 2025 204C.26, 204C.27

Voting systems, Minn. Statutes 2025 206.82, 206.83, 206.85

Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, comprehensive plan, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 458D.05