CHAPTER 248

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-182, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to preparation of jury lists; number of persons to
be selected; exceptions.

[H 245]

Approved March 29, 1968

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. Lists of jurors to be prepared by the jury commissioners.
—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 excluded 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 Newport News * the number shall not be less than
one thousand, for the city of Norfolk the number shall not be less than
one thousand for each judge, and for the city of Virginia Beach the
number shall not be less than one thousand for each 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 Rich-
mond, 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 Rich-
mond, 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 * Charlottesville and Petersburg * and
the countv of Pittsylvania, * the number shall not exceed five hundred,

(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 be less than eight hundred nor more than one
thousand.

(6) For the counties of Fairfax, Henry, Chesterfield, Nansemond
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 inhab-
itants per square mile, the number shall not exceed one thousand five

undred,

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

(8) For each of the city of Danville and the counties of Pulaski and
Wythe the number shall not exceed seven hundred fifty.

Provided further, that notwithstanding the above provisions or excep-
tions as to the number of jurors, the judge of any court of record having
jurisdiction within a city or county may determine the whole number of
persons to be selected to serve as jurors and shall so direct by proper
—— In no event shall the number of jurors be less than those stated
above.

_ 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 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 or city, 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
ee e176 shall render her ineligible to serve on any jury under the provisions
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2. An oe ergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.