CHAPTER 220

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 8-174, 8-178 and 8-182 of the
Code of Virginia, which sections relate to the lability for
and the exemptions from jury service and preparation of
jury lists by the gury commissioners.

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Approved March 15, 1950

1. That §§ 8-174, 8-178 and 8-182 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8-174. Who liable to serve as jurors.—All * citizens
over twenty-one years of age who shall have been residents of
this State one year, and of the county, city or town in which they
reside six months next preceding their being summoned to serve
as such, and competent in other respects, except as hereinafter
provided, shall remain and be liable to serve as jurors. No
officer, soldier, seaman, or marine of the United States army
or navy shall be considered a resident of this State by reason of
being stationed herein.

§ 8-178. Who are exempt from jury service.—The follow-
ing shall be exempt from serving on juries in civil and criminal
cases:

(1) The Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the State,

(2) The members of the General Assembly, *

(3) Practicing attorneys,

(4) Licensed practicing physicians,

(5) Duly licensed optometrists,

(6) Dentists,

(7) Officers of any court,

(8) Telephone and telegraph operators actually employed

9) Train dispatchers while in actual service as such,
(10) Pilots licensed under the laws of the United States

or this State,

: (11) The President and Vice-President of the United

tates,

(12) The members of both houses of Congress and their

respective officers, *
(13) Custom house officers,

(14) Postmasters, post officers, post riders and stag
drivers,

(15) Mariners actually employed in the service of any citi
zen or merchant within the United States,

(16) The Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Attorne:
General, the State Treasurer, the Auditor of Public Accounts
the Comptroller, members of the State Corporation Commission
the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, and th
Superintendent of Public Instruction,

(17) The clerks of both houses of the General Assembly, °

(18) The judge of any court,

(19) All professors, tutors and pupils of public seminaries
while such public seminaries are actually in session,

(20) All ministers of the gospel licensed to preach accord
ing to the rules of their sect,

(21) Sheriffs,

(22) All persons while actually engaged in harvesting o:
securing grain, potatoes or hay or in cutting or securing tobacco

(23) Keepers of the county and corporation jails,

(24) Superintendents and servants of public hospitals anc
lunatic asylums,

(25) The superintendent of the penitentiary and his assist
ants and the persons composing the guard,

(26) The police in cities and towns,

(27) Ferrymen necessarily and personally employed in o:
at any ferry established by law,

(28) Undertakers who pay a license tax as such, and thei
regularly employed assistants,

(29) The active officers and members of the Virgini:
National Guard, the Virginia State Guard and the Virgini:
naval militia, and contributing members of the Virginia Na
tional Guard and the Virginia State Guard who have contrib
uted not less than twenty-five dollars per annum,

(30) Women who notify the jury commissioners within th
time and in the manner prescribed by § 8-182 that they do no
lesire their names placed upon the jury lists prepared by th
jury commissioners.

But the active, regularly employed and paid members o:
the fire department of any city or town shall not be required t
serve at any time, nor shall any registered pharmacist whil
ngaged in the practice of his profession be required to serve
10r any fruit grower while actively engaged in harvesting hi:
‘rops.

The citizens of Tangier island in Accomack county and o:
Broad Water and Cobb islands in the county of Northampto1
shall be exempt from jury service, except service on grand
juries.

§ 8-182. Lists of jurors to be prepared by the jury com-
missioners.—The commissioners shall, as soon as may be after
their appointment, prepare lists of such of the inhabitants of
their respective counties or cities as are well qualified to serve
as jurors and are not excluded or exempt by §§ 8-174, 8-175
and 8-178. The whole number of.persons selected in any county
or city shall not be less than one hundred nor more than three
hundred, except that:

(1) For the city of Richmond and the city of Norfolk the
number shall not exceed one thousand for each court,

(2) For the Hustings Court of the City of Roanoke and
for the Court of Hustings for the City of Portsmouth the number
shall not exceed six hundred each,

(3) In the city of Lynchburg the number for the circuit
court shall not exceed five hundred and the number for the cor-
poration court shall not exceed one thousand, and

(4) For each of the cities of Danville, Newport News and
Petersburg the number shall not exceed five hundred.

The same percentage of population shall be taken from each
magisterial district or ward. The inhabitants of a city, however,
which is situated in whole or in part within the bounds of a
county shall not be placed on the lists for such county, except
in those cases in which the circuit court of the county and the
corporation court of the city have concurrent jurisdiction of
both civil and criminal cases arising within the territorial limits
of such county or city and in such cases the city shall be con-
sidered as a magisterial district, or the equivalent of a magis-
terial district, of the county for the purpose of ‘the jury list.

In any county having a density of population in excess of
two thousand per square mile, the commissioners shall not
include on the jury lists hereinabove provided for the name of
any person who has been called for jury duty at any time during
the period of one year next preceding.

The commissioners shall advise in writing each woman
whose name has been selected to be placed upon the jury list of
the fact that her name has been selected for such purpose and
that her name will be placed upon such list unless she notifies
the commissioners in writing within fifteen days of the date of
the notice sent by the commissioners that she does not desire her
name to be placed upon such list. The commissioners shall not
anclude on the jury lists hereinabove mentioned the name of any
woman who notifies the commissioners in writing within such
fifteen day period that she does not desire her name to be placed
upon the jury list. No reply in writing to the notice sent by the
commissioners under this paragraph in which a woman indi-
cates her willingness to accept jury service shall render her
ineligible to serve on any jury under the provisions of § 8-176.