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2016 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8.01-343 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 8.01-343. Appointment of jury commissioners.
The judge of each circuit court in which juries are impaneled
shall, prior to the first day of July in each year, appoint for the next
ensuing year ending on the following first day of July not less than two nor
more than fifteen 15 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. The judge of the circuit
court of a county having the urban county executive form of government may
appoint jury commissioners at any time prior to the first day of November in
each year. Any one judge of the judicial circuit may make such appointment
under this section. No practicing attorney-at-law, however, shall be appointed
as a jury commissioner. 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 civil order book of such court. No A jury commissioner
shall be eligible to for reappointment for at least three
years after the expiration of the year for which he was appointed. For the
purpose of this section, the two divisions of the Circuit Court of the City of
Richmond shall be deemed to be separate courts.