15.2-3830 - Certain costs and expenses to be apportioned between city and county.
§ 15.2-3830. Certain costs and expenses to be apportioned between city andcounty.
After a town becomes a city under this chapter, the costs and expenses of thecircuit court for the county, including jury costs, and the salaries of thejudge and clerk of the circuit court and the clerk, attorney for theCommonwealth and sheriff of the county shall be borne by the city and countyin the proportion that the population of each bears to the aggregatepopulation of the city and county.
Such expenses and costs shall include stationery, furniture, books, officesupplies and equipment for the court and clerk's office; supplies, repairsand alterations on the buildings used jointly by the city and county; andinsurance, fuel, water, lights, etc., used in and about the buildings and thegrounds thereto. The cost of any new building erected for the joint use ofthe city and county shall be provided for in like manner. However, in thecase of buildings used jointly by the City of Covington and Alleghany County,no repairs or alterations shall be made to any such building, and no newbuilding shall be erected without the approval of the governing body of boththe city and the county. If such governing bodies cannot agree, relevantcontroversies shall be resolved in the manner provided by § 15.2-3829.
(Code 1950, § 15-104; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-1005; 1970, c. 143; 1997, c. 587;2007, c. 813.)