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H. B. No. 530As Reported by the House Civil and Commercial Law CommitteeAs Reported by the House Civil and Commercial Law Committee
124th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2001-2002 |
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REPRESENTATIVES Peterson, Willamowski, Seitz, Manning, Sulzer
A BILL
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.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
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
and 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.
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