Chap. 241.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to exemptions from jury service. [S B 104]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-nine hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5985. The governor and lieutenant-governor of the State,
the members of the general assembly while actually in session, practic-
ing attorneys, licensed practicing physicians, duly licensed optometrists,
dentists, officers of any court, telephone and telegraph operators actual-
ly employed as such, pilots licensed under the laws of the United
States or this State, the president and vice-president of the United
States, the members of both houses of congress and their respective
officers, but only while such houses of congress are actually in session,
custom house officers, all postmasters, post officers, post riders and
stage drivers, all mariners actually employed in the service of any
citizen or merchant within the United States, the secretary of the com-
monwealth, and attorney general, the treasurer and two auditors, mem-
bers of the State corporation commission, the commissioner of agri-
culture, the superintendent of public instruction, the clerk of both
houses of the general assembly, but only while such houses are actually
in session, the judge of any court, all professors, tutors and pupils of
public seminaries, while such public seminaries are actually in session, all
ministers of the gospel licensed to preach according to the rules of
their sect, sheriffs, constables, all persons while actually engaged in
harvesting or securing grain, potatoes or hay or in cutting or securing
tobacco, keepers of the county and corporation jails, superintendents
and servants of public hospitals and lunatic asylums, the superintendent
of the penitentiary and his assistants and the persons composing the
guard, the police in cities and towns, and all ferrymen necessarily and
personally employed in or at any ferry established by law, undertakers
who pay a license tax as such, and their regularly employed assistants,
and the active officers and members of the Virginia national guard, and
the Virginia naval militia, and contributing members of the Virginia
national guard, who have contributed not less than $25.00 per annum,
shall be exempt from serving on juries in civil and criminal cases,
but the active regularly employed and paid members of the fire depart-
ment of any city or town shall not be required to serve at any time,
nor shall any registered pharmacist while engaged in the practice of
his profession be required to serve, nor any fruit grower while actively
engaged in harvesting his crops. And the citizens on Tangier, Saxis
and Chincoteague islands in Accomac county and of Broad Water and
Cobb islands in the county of Northampton shall be exempt from jury
service, except service on grand juries.