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GENERAL PROVISIONS § 1-15 docketing, indexing, etc., any warrants, summonses or papers evidencing such violations as is required in the matter of the same evidencing state violations. (Code 1971, § 1-7; Ord. of 1-12-82) Sec. 1-14. Dismissal of prosecutions; retraxit. When a person is in jail or under a recognizance to answer a charge ef assanlt and battery or other misdemeanor, or has been indicted for an assault and battery or other misdemeanor, for which there is a remedy by civil action, unless the offense was committed by or upon the city sheriff, any police officer, deputy sheriff, clerk or judge, or riotously, or with intent to commit a felony, if the party injured appears before the judge who made the commitment or took the recognizance, or before the court in which the indictment or warrant is pending, and acknowledges, in writing, that he has received satisfaction for the injury, such judge or court may, in his or its discretion, by an order, supersede the commitment, discharge the recagni- zance and dismiss the prosecution, upon payment by the defendant of all costs accrued to the city or the court. (Code 1971, § 11-11) State law reference-Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 19.2-151. Sec. 1.15. Special court costs assessments. (a) Law library. (1) Two dollars ($2.00) 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 efthe Code of W~rginia. 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 efthe Code of Virginia. (2) 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 ere assessed against the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof or the federal government. (b) Jail and court.related facilities; construction, maintenance, etc. (1) The sum eftwo dollars ($2.00) be, and it hereby is, assessed as part of the costs in each civil action filed in the general district court of the city, the juvenile and domestic relations district court efthe city, and the circuit court of the city, and in each criminal and traffic case in said general district court, juvenile and domestic relations district court or said circuit court in which the defendant is charged with a violation of any statute or ordinance, which assessment shall be collected by the clerk of the court in Supp. No. 53 93