CHAPTER 268

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-180, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to appointment of jury commissioners.
(S 123]

Approved March 31, 1964
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 thereafter as
practicable, appoint for the next ensuing year ending on the following
fifteenth day of February not less than two nor more than five persons,
and in counties having a population in excess of two hundred fifty thousand
inhabitants according to the last preceding United States census, not less
than two nor more than 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, however, shall hereafter be appointed as a jury commis-
sioner. Such appointment 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 ap-
pointment, or in case of his death, removal, or inability to act, on the cer-
tificate 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.