Chap. 141.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia
as heretofore amended, relating to exemptions from jury service. [S B 252

Approved March 16, 1934

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sectior
fifty-nine hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5985. The Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of the State
the members of the General Assembly while actually in session, prac-
ticing attorneys, licensed practicing physicians, duly licensed optome-
trists, dentists, officers of any court, telephone and telegraph operators
actually employed as such, pilots licensed under the laws of the United
States or this State, the President and Vice-President of the United
States, the members of both houses of Congress and their respective
officers, but only while such houses of Congress are actually in session,
custom house officers, all postmasters, post officers, post riders and
stage drivers, all mariners actually employed in the service of any
citizen or merchant within the United States, the Secretary of the
Commonwealth, and Attorney General, the Treasurer, Auditor of Pub-
lic Accounts, Comptroller, members of the State Corporation Com-
mission, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction, the clerk of both houses of the General Assembly, but
only while such houses are actually in session, the judge of any court,
all professors, tutors and pupils of public seminaries, while such public
seminaries are actually in session, all ministers of the gospel licensed
to preach according to the rules of their sect, sheriffs, constables, all
persons while actually engaged in harvesting or securing grain, potatoes
or hay or in cutting or securing tobacco, keepers of the county and
corporation jails, superintendents and servants of public hospitals and
lunatic asylums, the superintendent of the penitentiary and his as-
sistants and the persons composing the guard, the police in cities and
towns, and all ferrymen necessarily and personally employed in or at
any ferry established by law, undertakers who pay a license tax as such,
and their regularly employed assistants, and the active officers and
members of the Virginia national guard, and the Virginia naval militia,
and contributing members of the Virginia national guard, who have
contributed not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars per annum, shall
be exempt from serving on juries in civil and criminal cases, but the
ictive 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 en-
gaged in harvesting his crops. And the citizens on Tangier island in
Accomac county and of Broad Water and Cobb islands in the county
of Northampton shall be exempt from jury service, except service on
grand juries.