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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992
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<br />WHEREAS, Section 14.1-133.2 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as
<br />amended, provides that any city, through its governing body,
<br />may assess a sum not in excess of two dollars ($2.00) as part
<br />of the costs in each civil action filed in the district or
<br />circuit courts located within its boundaries and in each
<br />criminal or traffic case in its district or circuit court in
<br />which the defendant is charged with a violation of any
<br />statute or ordinance, said funds so collected to be used for
<br />construction, renovation, or maintenance of courthouse or
<br />jail and court-related facilities and to defray increases in
<br />the cost of heating, cooling, electricity, and ordinary main-
<br />tenance, and that the imposition of such assessment shall be
<br />by ordinance of the governing body; now, therefore,
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville,
<br />Virginia, in regular session assembled on July 28, 1992, that
<br />the sum of two dollars ($2.00) be, and it hereby is, assessed
<br />as part of the costs in each civil action filed in the Gene-
<br />ral District Court of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, and
<br />in the Circuit Court of the City of Martinsville, Virginia,
<br />and in each criminal or traffic case in said General District
<br />Court or in said Circuit Court in which the defendant is
<br />charged with a violation of any statute or ordinance, which
<br />assessment shall be collected by the Clerk of the Court in
<br />which the action is filed, and remitted to the City Treasurer
<br />and held by such Treasurer subject to disbursement by the
<br />Council for the construction, renovation or maintenance of
<br />courthouse or jail and court-related facilities and to defray
<br />increases in the cost of heating, cooling, electricity and
<br />ordinary maintenance; and
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<br />BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the assessment provided for here-
<br />in shall be in addition to any other fees prescribed by law;
<br />and
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<br />BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that, an emergency existing, this
<br />Ordinance shall be effective on and after August 1, 1992.
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<br />Upon motion, duly seconded and by unanimous vote, Council approved, on
<br />first reading, Ordinance No. 92-13 amending the City Code by adding
<br />Section 13-41, Possession of opened alcoholic beverage container on
<br />public property to Chapter 13, Offenses--Miscellaneous. Terry L. Roop,
<br />Chief of Police, and J. Randolph Smith, Jr., Commonwealth's Attorney,
<br />endorsed this ordinance, which would parallel the State Code, because
<br />it would allow the Police to better enforce the consumption of alcoho-
<br />lic beverages on public property. After some discussion, it was noted
<br />tha~ the intent of this ordinance was to address the situation where a
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