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2022 SESSION
22104517DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 17.1-618 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 17.1-618. Allowances for jurors; expenses of keeping jury together; fees of jury commissioners and commissioner in chancery for drawing of juries.
Every person summoned as a juror in a civil or criminal case
shall be entitled to thirty dollars [ $100 $50 ] for
each day of attendance upon the court for expenses of travel incident to jury
service and other necessary and reasonable costs as the court may direct.
Jurors summoned from another political subdivision pursuant to § 8.01-363 may
be allowed by the court, in addition to the above allowance, their actual
expenses. When kept together overnight under the supervision of the court, the
jurors and the sheriff or his deputies keeping the jury shall be furnished
suitable board and lodging. Reimbursement for board and lodging shall be set by
the judge in an amount not to exceed the amount authorized by travel
regulations promulgated pursuant to § 2.2-2823. Allowances and other costs will
be allowed a juror in only one case the same day.
Every person serving as a jury commissioner and every person
serving as a commissioner in chancery for the drawing of juries for a circuit
court of this Commonwealth may be allowed, by the court appointing him, a fee
not exceeding thirty dollars $30 per day for the time actually
engaged in such work and such other necessary and reasonable costs as the court
may direct.