CHAPTER 129

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-182, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to selection of jurors so as to provide for an increase in the
number thereof in certain counties and cities.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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

§ 8-182. The commissioners shall, as soon as may be after their ap-
pointment, prepare lists of such of the inhabitants of their respective
counties or cities as are well qualified to serve as jurors and are not ex-
cluded or exempt by §§ 8-174, 8-175 and 8-178. The whole number of per-
sons 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, the Circuit Court
of the city of Portsmouth 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 shal}
not exceed five hundred and the number for the corporation court shall
not exceed one thousand,

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

(5) For any county having a population in excess of eighty-five thou-
sand inhabitants according to the last preceding United States. census, the
number shall not exceed seven hundred fifty.

The same percentage of population shall be taken from each magis-
terial district or ward. The inhabitants of a city, however, which is situ-
ated 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 juris-
diction of both civil and criminal cases arising within the territorial limits
of such county or city and in such cases the city shall be considered as a
magisterial district, or the equivalent of a magisterial district, of the
county for the purpose of the jury list.

In the county having a density of population in excess of two thousand
per square mile, the commissioners shall not include on the jury lists here-
inabove 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 fif-
teen 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 shal]
not include 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 indicates her willingness to accept jury
service shall render her ineligible to serve on any jury under the provisions
of § 8-176.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.