TOWN CLERKS

See also TOWN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Absentee voting, duties, see ABSENTEE VOTING

Animal feedlot expansions, notice about, Minn. Rules 7020.2000

Appeal and equalization boards, meetings, Minn. Statutes 2024 274.01, 274.03

Audits and examinations

Contested claims, copies, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2024 6.59

Costs, collection, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2024 6.57

Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 6.55

Auxiliary forests, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2024 88.49

Bonds (officers and fiduciaries)

Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.10

Filing and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.23, 367.25

Peace officers' bonds, terms of, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.22

Campaign financing, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 211A.02, 211A.05, 211A.09, 211B.17

Certificates of indebtedness, equipment purchases, Minn. Statutes 2024 368.01

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

Compensation and salaries

Determination of, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.05

Elections, recounts, Minn. Statutes 2024 204C.35, 204C.36

Conflicts of interest, violations, penalties, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.37

County seats, changing, referendum, Minn. Statutes 2024 372.06

Deeds, formalities and procedures, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.05

Definitions

Campaign finance reporting, Minn. Statutes 2024 211A.01

Elections, Minn. Statutes 2024 200.02

Deputy clerks

Appointment and general duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.12

Compensation and salaries, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.05

Dissolution of town, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 368.47

Documents

Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.11

New town organization, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.14

Dog licenses, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 347.11, 347.12, 347.19

Duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.11

Election administration training

Generally, Minn. Rules 8240.0200, 8240.1200

Length, content, certification, Minn. Rules 8240.2700

Municipal clerks, defined, Minn. Rules 8240.0100

Municipal employees, certification, Minn. Rules 8240.2700

Election contests, Minn. Statutes 2024 209.021, 209.05

Election judges, Minn. Statutes 2024 204B.19, 204B.195, 204B.23

Appointment, mail balloting, Minn. Rules 8210.3000

Training for election officials, see Training program under ELECTION JUDGES

Election of, town election ballots, Minn. Rules 8250.0385

Election officials, removal of, Minn. Statutes 2024 204B.26

Elections

Absentee voting, Minn. Rules 8210.0050 to 8210.3000

Deceptive practices, reports received, Minn. Statutes 2024 204C.035

Early voting, hours of service, Minn. Statutes 2024 203B.085

Election officials, training, see Training program under ELECTION JUDGES

Election petitions, filing officers, Minn. Rules 8205.1040

Electronic voting systems, Minn. Rules 8220.1550

Intimidation and interference with duties, violations and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2024 211B.076

Mail balloting, Minn. Rules 8210.3000

Optical scan voting systems, see Local election officials, duties under OPTICAL SCAN VOTING SYSTEMS

Personal information, dissemination, Minn. Statutes 2024 211B.076

Polling place rosters, Minn. Rules 8200.9300

Publications and instructions, copies to, Minn. Statutes 2024 204B.27

Recount officials, duties, see under BALLOTS

Town election ballots, duties regarding, Minn. Rules 8250.0385

Voting precincts

Boundary changes, Minn. Rules 8255.0030, 8255.0050

Maps, copies, Minn. Rules 8255.0010, 8255.0030

Voting returns, summary statements, Minn. Rules 8230.4050, 8230.4380

Voting Rights Act, Minn. Statutes 2024 200.54

Elections emergency, combined polling place, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 204B.14

Elections messengers, Minn. Statutes 2024 204C.29

Electronic voting systems, duties, see ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS

Filing with

Absentee ballot applications, Australian ballot system elections, Minn. Statutes 2024 203B.05

Annexation ordinances and petitions, Minn. Statutes 2024 414.033

Audits and examinations, reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 6.51

Bridges from islands in meandered lakes, plans and specifications, Minn. Statutes 2024 164.15

Campaign financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 211A.02

Certificates of indebtedness, Minn. Statutes 2024 366.095

County highways, resolutions for abandonment, Minn. Statutes 2024 163.11

County seats, changing, notice of referendum, Minn. Statutes 2024 372.05

Damage claims, dogs, damage to domestic animals, Minn. Statutes 2024 347.15

Duplicate warrants, affidavits, Minn. Statutes 2024 471.415

Elections, recounts, Minn. Statutes 2024 204C.35, 204C.36

Estrays, Minn. Statutes 2024 346.03

Financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 471.697

Firefighters relief associations, actuarial valuations, Minn. Statutes 2024 424A.093

Hospital district board candidates, affidavits of candidacy, Minn. Statutes 2024 447.32

Itemized statements, repair of town bridges by counties, Minn. Statutes 2024 165.12

Land, applications for dedication for roads or cartways, Minn. Statutes 2024 164.15

Law enforcement officials, bonds, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.22

Lawsuits, statements of claims, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.38

Major purchases, petition for election, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.025

Minutes, town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.55

Model codes adopted by reference, Minn. Statutes 2024 471.62

Municipal elections, Minn. Statutes 2024 205.13

Notice of election to separate from statutory city, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.44

Oaths of office, Minn. Statutes 2024 358.11

Official maps of land for public use, Minn. Statutes 2024 394.361

Petition to dissolve town, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.45

Pounds, receipts of animal sales, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.24

Property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2024 276.11

Rabies proclamations, Minn. Statutes 2024 35.68

Redistricting plans, Minn. Statutes 2024 2.91

Resolutions approving subdivision of land outside municipality, Minn. Statutes 2024 462.36

Road construction, Minn. Statutes 2024 160.17

Special town meetings, notice, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.52

State statutes and rules adopted by reference, Minn. Statutes 2024 471.62

Tax records, Minn. Statutes 2024 368.85

Timely delivery, Minn. Statutes 2024 645.151

Town cemeteries, maps and plats, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.26

Town officers, bonds, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.23

Town roads, Minn. Statutes 2024 164.07

Town treasurer's statement of payments, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.16

Unearned wages, Minn. Statutes 2024 181.07

Fires

Causes, origins, and circumstances, Minn. Statutes 2024 299F.04

Violations, Minn. Statutes 2024 299F.20

Funds and accounts

Audited accounts, payment and form, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.18

Deposits, Minn. Statutes 2024 366.01

Posting and reading of financial statement, Minn. Statutes 2024 366.22

Town board of audit, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 366.21

General elections, duties, see GENERAL ELECTIONS

Hearings, city councils, Minn. Statutes 2024 435.19

Help America Vote Act, complaints procedures, Minn. Statutes 2024 200.04

Hospital district resolutions, Minn. Statutes 2024 447.31

Hours for voting, Minn. Statutes 2024 204C.05, 205.175

Indigent persons, application for hospitalization, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 261.22

Large wind energy conversion systems, site permit applications, duties, Minn. Rules 7854.0600

Lawsuits against town, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.40

Liquor licensees, convictions, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2024 340A.905

Local election official, defined, Minn. Statutes 2024 200.02

Messengers, see under ELECTIONS

Metropolitan towns

Duties generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 368.01

Election in alternate years, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.03

Municipal clerks

Town clerks defined as, Minn. Statutes 2024 203B.01

Voting, see VOTING

Municipal elections, duties, see MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

New towns, duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.14

News media, and elections, duties,, Minn. Statutes 2024 204C.06, 206.85

Notaries public, powers of, Minn. Statutes 2024 358.15

Notices of election, Minn. Statutes 2024 204B.34, 204D.22

Oaths

Duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.10

Filing and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.25

Power to administer, Minn. Statutes 2024 358.10

Office hours, elections, Minn. Statutes 2024 203B.085

Offices, location, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.13

Optical scan voting systems, testing, Minn. Statutes 2024 206.83

Option B towns

Appointment procedures, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.30

Election, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.03

Incumbent clerks, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.34

Option C towns, town administrator, designation as, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.35

Option D towns, combined with treasurer's office

Abandonment, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.36

Adoption by election, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.30, 367.31, 367.34, 367.36

Appointment, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.30

Duties of, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.36

Election of clerk-treasurer, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.30, 367.31, 367.34, 367.36

Terms of office, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.03

Town treasurer as incumbent, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.30, 367.36

Optional plans, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.31

Ordinances, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.125, 368.01, 599.13

Polling places, duties, see POLLING PLACES

Posting (notices), duties regarding, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.11

Public improvements, cancellation, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2024 435.202

Rabies proclamations, posting and publication, Minn. Statutes 2024 35.68

Records and record keeping

Annexation, joint information meetings, Minn. Statutes 2024 414.0333

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.11

Voter registration, see Records and record keeping under VOTER REGISTRATION

Refunds, Minn. Statutes 2024 435.202

Removal, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.37

Reports given

Dog licenses, Minn. Statutes 2024 347.12, 347.19

Electronic voting systems, plans, Minn. Statutes 2024 206.82

Financial reports, Minn. Statutes 2024 471.76

Financial statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 471.697

Statement of tax collections, Minn. Statutes 2024 471.69

Town board of audit, financial report, Minn. Statutes 2024 366.21

Voter registration, violations, Minn. Statutes 2024 201.27

Representatives, election observers, conduct at polling places, Minn. Statutes 2024 204C.06

Roads taken over as trunk highways, proceedings, documents, and plats, Minn. Statutes 2024 161.19

Special elections, duties, see SPECIAL ELECTIONS

Special fire protection districts, dissolution, Minn. Statutes 2024 368.85

Special or local laws, approval, Minn. Statutes 2024 645.021

Special town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.53

Specific parts of land, conveyances, subdivisions, Minn. Statutes 2024 272.162

State Building Code, enforcement, notice, Minn. Statutes 2024 326B.121

Subdivision regulations, Minn. Statutes 2024 462.358

Subordinate service districts, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 365A.04, 365A.095

Surety bonds, Minn. Statutes 2024 368.01

Taconite municipal aid, distribution, Minn. Statutes 2024 298.282

Tax-forfeited lands, declaration of reversion, notice, Minn. Statutes 2024 282.01

Town bridges, Minn. Statutes 2024 164.12, 164.15

Town meetings, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.51, 365.53, 365.55

Town officers, resignations, notice, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.02

Town real estate assessment rolls, reports received, Minn. Statutes 2024 274.18

Town roads

Impassable roads, complaints, Minn. Statutes 2024 163.16

Maps, Minn. Statutes 2024 164.35

Petitions to establish, alter or vacate, Minn. Statutes 2024 164.07

Towns, petitions to form or change, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2024 379.03

Training for election officials, Minn. Statutes 2024 204B.25, 204B.28

Vacancies in office, Minn. Statutes 2024 367.03

Violations and penalties

Conflicts of interest, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.37

Elections, Minn. Statutes 2024 201.27, 204C.41, 211A.05

Voter registration violations, failure to report, Minn. Statutes 2024 201.27

Voting machines and systems, rules or laws, violations, Minn. Statutes 2024 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 2024 206.66

Voting precincts

Boundary corrections, Minn. Statutes 2024 204B.14, 204B.146

Maps, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 201.061, 204B.14

Voting returns, summary statements, Minn. Statutes 2024 204C.26, 204C.27

Voting systems, Minn. Statutes 2024 206.82, 206.83, 206.85

Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, comprehensive plan, notice, Minn. Statutes 2024 458D.05