CHAPTER 243
An Act to permit certain cities, having a law library for the use of their
courts, to assess certain costs in civil actions filed in their courts of
record, and providing that such costs so collected be held for the use
and maintenance of such law library.

[H 186]

Approved March 14, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Any city having a population of more than ninety thousand and
adjoining a county having a population of more than two hundred seventy-
five thousand and any city having a population of not less than eighty-
eight thousand and not more than ninety thousand, and having a law li-
brary for the use and benefit of the courts of the Commonwealth may,
through its governing body, assess as part of the costs incident to each
and every civil action filed in the courts of record located within its boun-
daries a sum not in excess of one dollar. The imposition of such assessment
shall be by ordinance of the governing body and the assessment shall be
collected by the clerk of the courts and remitted to the treasurer or finance
officer of the city and held by such treasurer or finance officer subject to
disbursements by the governing body for the acquisition of law books and
law periodicals, and the maintenance of the library, including compensa-
tion to be paid to librarians and other necessary staff for the maintenance
of such library; the compensation of librarians and the necessary staff are
to be fixed by the governing body and paid out of the fund created by the
imposition of such assessment of cost. The assessment provided for herein
shall be in addition to all other costs prescribed by law, but shall not apply
to civil actions in which the Commonwealth or any other political sub-
division thereof or the federal government shall be a party. The governing
body is authorized to accept contributions to the fund from any bar
association.