SDCL § 8-10-5: Selection of township depository--Exoneration of treasurer for losses in deposited funds.

A bona fide deposit of township funds in the name of the township in any bank or depository selected by a majority of the township voters, present and voting at any annual township meeting, shall relieve the township treasurer from liability and loss of such deposited funds through the insolvency of such depository or depositories while said funds were on deposit therein. The board of supervisors of any township shall select depositories for township funds upon the failure or refusal of the voters to select depositories at such annual township meeting, and if so selected by the board of supervisors the township treasurer shall be likewise relieved from liability in like manner as if such depository had been selected by the voters. The depository selected in either manner shall be a bank or banks or a federally chartered credit union within the State of South Dakota. If no depository is otherwise designated it shall be designated by the treasurer, with the same effect as if otherwise designated.