CHAPTER 114

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-178, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to exemptions from jury service, so as to provide
exemptions as to certain persons.

[H 119]

Approved February 25, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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

§ 8-178. Who are exempt from jury service——The following 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, provided such officers are in actual service
as such and receive compensation therefor,

(8) Telephone and telegraph operators actually employed as such,

(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 States,

fn (12) The members of both houses of Congress and their respective
officers,

(13) Custom house officers,

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

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

(16) The Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Attorney General, the
State Treasurer, the Auditor of Public Accounts, the Comptroller, members
of the State Corporation Commission, the Commissioner of Agriculture
and Immigration, and the 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 according to the
rules of their sect,

(21) Sheriffs,

(22) All persons while actually engaged in harvesting or 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 and lunatic
asylums,

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

(26) The police in cities and towns,

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

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

(29) The active officers and members of the Virginia National Guard,
the Virginia State Guard and the Virginia Naval Militia,

(30) Women who notify the jury commissioners within the time
and in the manner prescribed by § 8-182 that they do not desire their
names placed upon the jury lists prepared by the jury commissioners,
(81) Any person over seventy years of age who does not desire to
serve.

But the active, regularly employed and paid members of the fire
department 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.

_ The citizens of Tangier Island in Accomack County and of Broad
Water and Cobb Islands in the county of Northampton shall be exempt
from jury service, except service on grand juries.