[Amended 1-19-2010]
There shall be assessed as part of the costs
incident to each civil action filed in the courts located within the
boundaries of Warren County, Virginia, the sum of $4 for each civil
action filed in the Circuit Court, the General District Court or the
Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.
This assessment shall be collected by the Clerk
of the court in which the action is filed and remitted to the Treasurer
of Warren County and held by the Treasurer subject to disbursements
by the Warren County Board of Supervisors for the acquisition of suitable
quarters for a public law library and of law books and law periodicals
for the establishment, use and maintenance of a law library which
shall be open for the use of the public.
The assessment provided for herein 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, political subdivision thereof
or federal government.