Senate Bill 0552

    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 552

    By Senator Klein





    28-390A-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to juries; amending s. 40.015,

  3         F.S.; providing a method for establishing jury

  4         districts, boundaries; providing an effective

  5         date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Section 40.015, Florida Statutes, is

10  amended to read:

11         40.015  Jury districts; counties containing one

12  judicial circuit; counties exceeding 50,000.--

13         (1)  In any county that wholly contains one judicial

14  circuit and that has one or more locations in addition to the

15  county seat at which the county or circuit court sits and

16  holds trials, the board of county commissioners is authorized

17  to create a jury district for each courthouse location, from

18  which jury lists shall be selected in the manner presently

19  provided by law.

20         (2)(1)  In any county having a population exceeding

21  50,000 according to the last preceding decennial census and

22  one or more locations in addition to the county seat at which

23  the county or circuit court sits and holds jury trials, the

24  chief judge, with the approval of a majority of the circuit

25  court judges of the circuit, is authorized to create a jury

26  district for each courthouse location, from which jury lists

27  shall be selected in the manner presently provided by law.

28         (3)(2)  In determining the boundaries of a jury

29  district to serve the court located within the district, the

30  chief judge or the board of county commissioners shall seek to

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 552
    28-390A-98




  1  avoid any exclusion of any cognizable group.  Each jury

  2  district shall include at least 6,000 registered voters.

  3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  4  law.

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  7                          SENATE SUMMARY

  8    Provides that in any county that wholly contains one
      judicial circuit and that has one or more locations in
  9    addition to the county seat at which the county or
      circuit court sits and holds trials, the board of county
10    commissioners is authorized to create a jury district for
      each courthouse location, from which jury lists shall be
11    selected in the manner provided by law.

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