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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64459</law_id><section_number>8.01-342</section_number><catch_line>Restrictions on amount of jury service permitted</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-345</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Juries</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Jurors</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">jury</span> commissioners shall not include on the <span class="dictionary">jury</span> list provided for in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Lists of qualified persons to be prepared by jury commissioners; random selection process" href="/8.01-345/">8.01-345</a> the name of any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who has been called and reported to any state <span class="dictionary">court</span> for <span class="dictionary">jury</span> duty at any time during the period of three years next preceding the date of completion of such <span class="dictionary">jury</span> list. <a id="paragraph-234581" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-342/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If such <span class="dictionary">person</span> has been called and reported for jury duty in the <span class="dictionary">trial</span> of any case, either civil or criminal, at any one term of a <span class="dictionary">court</span>, he shall not be permitted to serve as a juror in any civil or criminal case, at any other term of that <span class="dictionary">court</span> during the three-year period set forth in subsection A of this section, unless all the <span class="dictionary">persons</span> whose names are in the jury box have been drawn to serve during such three-year period; however, such <span class="dictionary">person</span> shall be permitted to serve on any special jury ordered pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Special juries" href="/8.01-362/">8.01-362</a> and on any <span class="dictionary">grand jury</span>. <a id="paragraph-234582" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-342/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 8-208.7, 8-208.10; 1973, c. 439; 1974, c. 369; 1977, cc. 451, 617; 1984, c. 165; 1992, c. 312; 1994, c. 27.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
