CODE OF VIRGINIA

ALLOWANCES FOR JURORS; EXPENSES OF KEEPING JURY TOGETHER; FEES OF JURY
COMMISSIONERS AND COMMISSIONER IN CHANCERY FOR DRAWING OF JURIES (§ 17.1-618)

Every person summoned as a juror in a civil or criminal case shall be entitled
to thirty dollars 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 per day for the
time actually engaged in such work and such other necessary and reasonable costs
as the court may direct.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-208.33; 1954, c. 709; 1958, cc. 216, 303; 1960, c. 366;
1964, c. 268, § 14.1-195.1; 1968, c. 632; 1969, Ex. Sess., c. 20; 1972, c. 719;
1973, c. 439; 1974, c. 220; 1975, c. 193; 1976, c. 308; 1977, c. 624; 1978, c.
230; 1980, cc. 593, 594; 1982, c. 610; 1983, c. 495; 1984, c. 512; 1993, cc.
345, 635; 1996, c. 332; 1998, c. 872.