Before any account, claim, or demand against any township for any property or services for which such township is liable shall be audited or allowed by the board or officers authorized by law to audit and allow the same, the person in whose favor such account, claim, or demand exists, or his agent, shall reduce the same to writing in items and shall verify that such account, claim, or demand is just and true, that the money therein charged was actually paid for the purposes therein stated, or that the property therein charged was actually delivered or used for the purposes therein stated and was of the value therein charged, or that the services therein charged were actually rendered and of the value therein charged, or in case such services were official, for which fees are prescribed by law, then that the fees or amounts charged therefor are such as are allowed by law, and that no part of such account, claim, or demand has been paid.

Every person who knowingly swears falsely to the verification required by this section, shall be guilty of perjury and punished accordingly.

Source: SL 1883, ch 112, subch 1, §§ 87, 88; CL 1887, §§ 800, 801; RPolC 1903, §§ 1094, 1095; RC 1919, §§ 6113, 6114; SDC 1939, §§ 58.0806, 58.9905; SL 1981, ch 43, § 11.