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TUESDAY. APRIL 26, 1994 WHEREAS, Section 42.1-70 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, provides that any city may, through its governing body, assess, as part of the cost incident to each civil action filed in its courts a sum not in excess of $4.00 to be used for the acquisition of law books, law periodicals and computer legal research services and equipment for the establishment, use and maintenance of a law library, which will be open for the use of the public at hours convenient to the public; and WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville, Virginia, presently assesses the sum of 82.00 in each such civil action to be used for the aforesaid purposes, and desires to increase the amount of said assessment to S3.00 in each civil case filed in either the General District Court or the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville; now, therefore, BE IT DRDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled on April 26, 1994, that it does hereby amend its City Code, Chapter 1 General Provisions, Section 1-15 Special Assessment for Support of Law Library as Part of Costs in Civil Actions, as follows: (a) Three dollars ($3.00) shall be assessed, as part of the costs incident to each civil action filed in both the courts of record and the courts not of record in the city, pursuant to section 42.1-70 of the Code of Virginia. Such assessment shall be collected by the clerk of the court in which the action is filed and such collections shall be remitted, at the end of each month, to the city treasurer, to be deposited and held by such treasurer subject to disbursements authorized by the city council or its agent for the acquisition of law books and law periodicals for the establishment, use and maintenance of a law library, which library shall be open for the use of the public, and for such other purposes as are allowed by section 42.1-70 of the Code of Virginia. (b) The assessment provided for in this section shall be in addition to all other costs prescribed by law, but shall not apply to any action in which the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof or the federal government is a party and in which the costs are assessed against the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof or the federal government. Upon motion, duly seconded and by unanimous vote, Council approved a supplemental appropriation from the FY 93-94 Capital Reserve Fund in the amount of $30,584 to be used to purchase two vehicles for the Sheriff's Office. City Manager Earl B. Reynolds, Jr. stated the vehicles could be purchased at less cost in the current fiscal year than if the purchase were made during FY 94-95. Upon motion, duly seconded and by unanimous vote, Council approved a