To amend sections 2313.13 and 2313.24 of the Revised Code to modify the small county exception to the drawing, summoning, and service of jurors for a term or part of a term of a court of common pleas.

Section 1. That sections 2313.13 and 2313.24 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 2313.13. (A) The court of common pleas may postpone the whole or a part of the time of service of a juror, after notice for service, to a later date during the same term or part of a term or to a subsequent term or part of a term of the same jury year or may excuse a juror, after notice for service, from service at that term for not more than three days at a time, where the exigencies of his business require his temporary excuse. The court of a county or the judge of the court of common pleas of a county may also discharge, for the term of a court or for part of a term of a court, or excuse until a day certain, one or more jurors so notified summoned for jury duty whose attendance is not required for the trial of issues at that term or part of a term, or until that day. Each

(B)(1) The court of common pleas of a county or a judge of the court of common pleas of a county may postpone the whole or a part of a juror's time of service on jury duty, after summoning the juror for jury duty, to either of the following:

(a) To a later date during the same term of court or part of a term of court;

(b) To a subsequent term of court or part of a term of court of the same jury year.

(2) Each juror so excused or whose time of service on jury duty is postponed until a day certain specified date may be required to attend at the opening of court on that day, and thereafter on each day after that day until the juror is discharged, without further notice additional summons from the court.

(C) The court of common pleas of a county, or a judge of the court of common pleas of a county, may excuse until a specified date one or more jurors summoned for jury duty whose attendance is not required for the trial of issues until that day. Each juror excused until a specified date may be required to attend the opening of court on that day and on each day after that day until the juror is discharged, without additional summons from the court.

(D) The court of common pleas of a county or a judge of the court of common pleas of a county may excuse a juror, after summoning the juror for jury duty, from service on jury duty at that term of court for not more than three days at a time, if the exigencies of the juror's business require the juror's temporary excuse.

Sec. 2313.24.  (A) The court of common pleas of a county, or a judge thereof of the court of common pleas of a county, shall specify by written order the number of jurors to be drawn for each term of that court, or part of a term, of that court when the term is divided into parts, to comply with sections 2313.01 to 2313.46 of the Revised Code. A proportionate

(B) A portion of the number of jurors ordered for a term or part of a term to be drawn pursuant to division (A) of this section shall be first drawn and shall be summoned to be present for duty during the first three consecutive calendar weeks of the term or part of a term, and the. The same number of jurors shall next be drawn and shall be summoned to be present for duty during the next three consecutive calendar weeks, and in like manner jurors. Jurors shall be drawn and summoned for each succeeding three weeks of the term of court. This section as to the division of terms and as to the service of jurors for three weeks

(C) Divisions (A) and (B) of this section shall not apply to counties with a population of less than one two hundred fifty thousand population in which cases the. If divisions (A) and (B) of this section do not apply to a county, the court of common pleas of that county or a judge of the court of common pleas of that county shall make rules in his own that apply to that county applicable to such matters for the drawing and summons of jurors.

(D) The commissioners of jurors may send by mail or otherwise to a juror whose name is drawn, a printed notice, informing him the juror that he the juror has been drawn for jury duty and will be notified summoned by the sheriff, and such. The notice may contain copies of such the portions of sections 2313.01 to 2313.46 of the Revised Code, as that the commissioners deem consider advisable.

Section 2. That existing sections 2313.13 and 2313.24 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.