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2016 SESSION
16101151DBe 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 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.