d. Township road mileage certification

Memorandum To: Board of County Commissioners, County Auditors and County Treasurers From: State Treasurer Kelly Schmidt Date: March 26, 2014 Re: Township Road Mileage Certification This is a reminder that"Township Road Mileage Certifications" are due to the State Treasurer by July 1, 2014. Please note the effective date at the top of the form. If your certification is a biennial certification,please check that box and fill in the year (2014). If you are submitting an amended certification,please check the box for amendments and fill in the effective date. If the date is not completed, the certification will be returned for correction. Per NDCC 54-27-19.1 —To receive funds under this section, organized townships shall provide fifty percent matching funds. Moneys retained by the County Treasurer due to the failure of organized townships to provide the required matching funds must be returned to the State Treasurer. The Board of County Commissioners shall certify to the State Treasurer by July 1 of each even- numbered year, the number of township road miles in each of the county's organized and unorganized townships. Certification must be reported on SFN 58292. This form can be found on-line at http://www.nd.gov/eforms/Doc/sfn58292.pdf. The form is to be signed by the Chair of the County Commission. Due to the Legislature's increasing use of one-time funding distributions to townships, a number of significant changes have been made to this form over previous versions. Some of these changes are spelled out below. In the "Organized Townships" section of the form, please list your organized townships in alphabetical order while separately listing each congressional township and range number that is part of that organized township. Report the road miles in each organized township as a whole to the nearest hundredth of a mile. In the "Unorganized Townships" section, please list the unorganized township and range numbers individually while reporting the road miles in each to the nearest hundredth of a mile. In each section there are additional columns to be completed only if the particular congressional township and range straddles a county border(with a portion in another county) or if different parts of the congressional township are under separate organization(ie. half of a congressional township is organized with an adjoining township while the other half remains unorganized). An example of a partially completed form is being included to help illustrate these circumstances. Also note that sliver townships along state borders with Canada, Minnesota, Montana and South Dakota may share the name of an adjoining township, but do have different congressional township and range numbers. Please be sure to list these sliver township and range numbers as well. Road mileage certification is based on the definition of a township road as contained in North Dakota Administrative Code 84-03-01-01. A copy of this administrative code has been included as well.