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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61837</law_id><section_number>17.1-618</section_number><catch_line>Allowances for jurors; expenses of keeping jury together; fees of jury commissioners and commissioner in chancery for drawing of juries</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-205</reference><reference>25.1-235</reference><reference>8.01-576.2</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Costs Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every person summoned as a juror in a civil or criminal case shall be entitled to $50 for each day of attendance upon the <span class="dictionary">court</span> for expenses of travel incident to <span class="dictionary">jury</span> service and other necessary and reasonable costs as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may direct. Jurors summoned from another political subdivision pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="When impartial jury cannot be obtained locally" href="/8.01-363/">8.01-363</a> may be allowed by the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, in addition to the above allowance, their actual expenses. When kept together overnight under the supervision of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, the jurors and the sheriff or his deputies keeping the <span class="dictionary">jury</span> shall be furnished suitable board and lodging. Reimbursement for board and lodging shall be set by the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> in an amount not to exceed the amount authorized by travel regulations promulgated pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Traveling expenses on state business; public or private transportation" href="/2.2-2823/">2.2-2823</a>. Allowances and other costs will be allowed a juror in only one case the same day.
		Every person serving as a <span class="dictionary">jury</span> commissioner and every person serving as a <span class="dictionary">commissioner in chancery</span> for the drawing of juries for a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of this Commonwealth may be allowed, by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> appointing him, a fee not exceeding $50 per day for the time actually engaged in such work and such other necessary and reasonable costs as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may direct.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-208.33; 1954, c. 709; 1958, cc. 216, 303; 1960, c. 366; 1964, c. 268, &#xA7; 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; 2023, cc. 232, 233.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
