Printable Format80-202. Qualifications and oaths of certain township officials. Every person elected to the office of trustee, clerk or treasurer of any township, or road overseer of any road district, shall be an elector of the township or road district at the time of such election or appointment, and shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by law. The oath shall be filed in the office of the county clerk. In the event any such officer shall become a nonresident of the township or road district, the office shall become vacant.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 16; L. 1883, ch. 146, § 1; R.S. 1923, 80-202; L. 1973, ch. 134, § 55; L. 1974, ch. 446, § 26; L. 2019, ch. 36, § 4; April 25.
Attorney General's Opinions:
Township treasurer; vacancy; disability. 82-11.
Change from city of third class to city of second class located in township; effect on township's authority. 82-237.
Qualifications of township officers; residency. 86-82.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Cited; commissioner's report in ouster proceedings. State, ex rel., v. Burr, 151 Kan. 383, 384, 99 P.2d 742.