Supervisors Hear Proposal for $3 Court Filing Fee to Fund Courthouse Work

The Nottoway County Board of Supervisors opened a public hearing on an ordinance to impose a $3 assessment on certain civil, criminal and traffic filings to be collected by the clerk and remitted to the county treasurer for courthouse construction and related work. A county presenter told the board the assessment would be “collected by the clerk of the court … and remitted to the county treasur to be held by the treasur subject to disbbursements by the board of supervisors solely for the construction, reconstruction, renovation of or adaptive use of a structure of the county courthouse.”