CHAPTER 211

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-180, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to appointment of jury commissioners. CH 79]

Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8-180, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 8-180. The judge of the circuit court of each county and city,
and the judge of every city court in which juries are empaneled, shall,
prior to the fifteenth day of February in each year, or as soon there-
after as practicable, appoint for the next ensuing year ending on the
following fifteenth day of February not less than two * nor more
nine persons, as jury commissioners, who shall be competent to serve
as jurors under the provisions of this chapter, and shall be citizens of
intelligence, morality, and integrity. No practicing attorney at law, how-
ever, shall hereafter be appointed as a jury commissioner. Such appoint-
ment shall be certified by the judge to the clerk of the court for which
the appointment is made, who shall enter the same on the common law
order book of such court. The governing body of any county or city may
allow every jury commissioner a fee not exceeding ten dollars a day for
the time actually engaged in making out the list of jurors mentioned in
§ 8-182, to be paid out of the treasury of the city or county for which
he is appointed on the certificate of the judge making the appointment,
or in case of his death, removal, or inability to act, on the certificate of
his successor in office or of the judge designated to hold his courts. No
jury commissioner shall be eligible to reappointment for at least two
years after the expiration of the year for which he was appointed. For
the purpose of this section, the two parts of the Hustings Court of the
city of Richmond shall be deemed to be separate courts.