Section 4-38-24 - Roads; elections.
4-38-24. [Roads; elections.]
To lay out, alter or discontinue any road running through one or more precincts or townships in such county, also to perform such other duties respecting roads as may be required by law.
Said board of commissioners shall also appoint the board of registration, for the registration of the legal voters, and also the judges of election, for all the elections held in their respective counties. Also act as boards of canvassers of the elections within their respective counties; and shall count the votes cast in any election within their respective counties, and shall determine the result thereof from the returns of the judges of election of the various precincts, and shall declare the result of said election, and shall immediately issue a certificate of election under their hands to the person that may have received the highest number of votes for any office. That the judges of election shall make their returns to the commissioners of their respective counties, in the same manner as they are now required by law to make the same to the judges of probate and under the same penalties. The votes cast in any election shall be canvassed and counted within the time prescribed by law and the said boards of commissioners shall discharge all the duties and shall exercise all the powers exercised by the several probate judges prior to March 1, 1876, relative to elections, as required by law on that date, and shall be subject to the same penalties for any failure in the discharge of their duties, or abuse or usurpation of power.