CHAPTER 320

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-182, as amended, of the Code of Virgin
relating to lists of jurors.
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Approved April 1, 1966

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
appointment, 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§ 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 cities of Newport News and Norfolk the number shall
not exceed one thousand for each judge or court,

(la) For the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond, the Chancery
Court of the city of Richmond, the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond,
and the court of Hustings for the city of Portsmouth, the number shall
not exceed one thousand; for the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond,
Part II, the number shall not be less than two thousand nor more than five
thousand; and for the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, the
number shall not be less than eight thousand nor more than ten thousand,

(2) For the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, the Circuit Court
of the city of Portsmouth, and for all courts of the * cities of Alexandria
and Hampton and the County of Roanoke 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, Petersburg and Virginia
Beach, and the counties of Pittsylvania and Henry, 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.

(6) For the Counties of Fairfax and Prince William, the number
shall be determined by the Judge or Judges of the Court or Courts having
jurisdiction within the Counties, and for any County having a population
of more than four thousand inhabitants per square mile, the number shall
not exceed one thousand five hundred.

(7) For the city of Chesapeake the number shall be not less than
five hundred nor more than one thousand for each court.

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 any 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 fifteen
davs 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 provisions of § 8-176.