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PUBLIC LAW 88-241-DEC. 23, 1963

[77 STAT.

(3) is incapable by reason of mental or physical infirmities to render efficient jury service, (b) An otherwise qualified person is not disqualified from jury service by reason of sex, but a woman may not be compelled so to serve. § 11-2302. Exemptions The following persons are exempt from jury service: (1) members in active service in the armed forces of the United States; (2) members of the fire and police departments of the United States and of the District of Columbia; (3) public officers in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States or the Government of the District of Columbia who are actively engaged in the performance of official duties; (4) attorneys-at-law in active practice; (6) ministers of the gospel and clergymen of every denomination; (6) physicians and surgeons in active practice; (7) keepers of charitable institutions created by or under the laws relating to the District of Columbia; and (8) persons employed on vessels navigating the waters of the District of Columbia. All other persons, otherwise qualified according to law, whether employed in the service of the Government of the United States or of the District of Columbia, all officers and enlisted men of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, both active and retired, all officers and enlisted men in the reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, all notaries public, all postmasters, and those who are the recipients or beneficiaries of a pension or other gratuity from the Federal or District Government or who have contracts with the United States or the District of Columbia, are qualified to serve as jurors in the District of Columbia and are not exempt from jury service. §11-2303. J u r y commission; appointment, qualifications, oath, tenure, compensation, and removal (a) The jury commission shall continue in the District of Columbia. (b) The commission consists of three commissioners appointed by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. (c) Any person may be appointed a jury commissioner if h e: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) is an actual resident of the District, and has been domiciled therein for at least three years prior to his appointment; (3) owns real property in the District; (4) is not engaged in the practice of law; and (5) at the time of his appointment, is not a party to any cause pending in a court of the District. A person otnerwise qualified is not disqualified from service as a jury commissioner by reason of sex, but a woman may not be compel led so to serve. (d) J u r y commissioners shall be appointed or reappointed for terms of three years each, staggered so that one commissioner will be appointed each year; and they shall continue in office until the appointment and qualification of their successors. (e) Each jury commissioner shall receive $10 per day for each day or fraction of a day when he is actually engaged in the performance of his duties, not to exceed five days in a month, nor $260 in a year, which shall be paid, upon the commissioner's certificate, by the United States marshal for the District of Columbia.

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