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2016 SESSION
16100598DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8.01-345 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 8.01-345. Lists of qualified persons to be prepared by jury commissioners; random selection process.
The commissioners shall, not later than December 1 following their appointment, submit a list showing the names, addresses, freeholder status and, if available, the occupations of such of the inhabitants of their respective counties or cities as are well qualified under § 8.01-337 to serve as jurors and are not excluded or exempt by §§ 8.01-338 to 8.01-341 and 8.01-342. Such master jury list shall be used in selecting jurors for a twelve-month period beginning on the first day of the first term of court in the calendar year next succeeding December 1. The number of persons selected for each court shall be as specified in the order appointing the commissioners.
The jury commissioners shall utilize random selection
techniques, either manual, mechanical, or
electronic, using a current voter registration list
and, where feasible, a list of persons issued a driver's license as defined
in § 46.2-100 from the Department of Motor Vehicles, and,
where feasible, city or county directories, telephone
books, personal property tax rolls, and other such lists as may be designated
and approved by the chief judge of the circuit, to select the jurors
representative of the broad community interests, to be placed on the master
jury list. The commissioners shall make reasonable effort to exclude the names
of deceased persons and unqualified persons from the master jury list. After
such random selection, the commissioners shall apply such statutory exceptions
and exemptions as may be applicable to the names so selected. The chief judge
shall promulgate such procedural rules as are necessary to ensure the integrity
of the random selection process and to ensure compliance with other provisions
of law with respect to jury selection and service.
Where a city and county adjoin, in whole or in part, the names of the inhabitants of a city shall not be placed upon the county list, nor those of a county upon the city list except in those cases in which the circuit court of the county and the circuit court of the city have concurrent jurisdiction of both civil and criminal cases arising within the territorial limits of such county or city. However, in the case of the City of Franklin and the County of Southampton, the number of jurors selected from Southampton County shall be proportionate to the number of jurors selected from the City of Franklin based upon the respective populations of the county and city.