CHAPTER 538

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-182, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginta, relating to the preparation of lists of jurors by jury commis-

sioners.
{H 733]
Approved March 29, 1958

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
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 Norfolk the number shall not exceed one thousand
for each court,

(la) For the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond, the Hustings
Court of the city of Richmond, Part II, the Chancery Court of the city
of Richmond, and the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond, the number
shall not exceed one thousand; for the Law and Equity Court of the city
of Richmond, the number shall not exceed two thousand,

(2) For the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, the Circuit Court
of the city of Portsmouth, for the Court of Hustings for the city of Ports-
mouth and for all courts of the city of Alexandria 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 corporation court shall
not exceed one thousand,

(4) For each of the cities of Danville, Newport News and Petersburg,
and the * counties of Pittsylvania, Henry and Princess Anne, the number
shall not exceed five hundred, and

(5) For any county having a population in excess of eighty-five
thousand 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
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 con-
current 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 considered as a magisterial district, or the equivalent of a magisterial
district, of the county for the purpose of the jury list.

In any county having a density of population in excess of two thou-
sand 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 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 pro-
visions of § 8-176.

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