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RI Gen L § 9-9-24 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-9 - Jury Lists|Section 9-9-24 - Appeals from jury commissioner.

§ 9-9-24. Appeals from jury commissioner.Any person aggrieved by the decision of the jury commissioner may, within one year from the time when his or her name was drawn, appeal to the superior court, which sitting without a jury, shall hear and determine the appeal and order that the name be placed upon or withdrawn from the list. Notice of the pendency of the appeal shall be given to the jury commissioner by citation. The decision of any justice of the superior court upon the appeal shall be final.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 21; P.L. 1926, ch. 797, § 11; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 19; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 17; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-9-24.
RI Gen L § 9-9-25 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-9 - Jury Lists|Section 9-9-25 - Application to pending proceedings.

§ 9-9-25. Application to pending proceedings.The provisions of this chapter, of chapter 10 of this title, and of chapter 11 of title 12 shall not affect any suit brought, nor any offense committed, nor any penalty or forfeiture incurred before May 11, 1939, and no prosecution or indictment pending on that date shall be affected hereby, except that all proceedings in any such suit or prosecution and in any suit or prosecution thereafter commenced may be conformed to the provisions hereof.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 39; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-9-25.
RI Gen L § 9-9-26 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-9 - Jury Lists|Section 9-9-26 - Appropriations - Expenses.

§ 9-9-26. Appropriations — Expenses.The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sums as it shall deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and chapter 10 of this title; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of such sum or sums as may be from time to time required, upon the receipt by him or her of proper vouchers approved by the jury commissioner.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 40; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-9-26.
RI Gen L § 9-9-27 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-9 - Jury Lists|Section 9-9-27 - Retention of jury lists.

§ 9-9-27. Retention of jury lists.Lists and records required to be filed and/or preserved in the office of the jury commissioner by the provisions of this chapter may be destroyed upon order of the presiding justice of the superior court when he or she determines their retention is no longer required.History of Section.P.L. 1963, ch. 49, § 1.
RI Gen L § 9-9-28 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-9 - Jury Lists|Section 9-9-28 - Prohibition against loss of employment or longevity benefits.

§ 9-9-28. Prohibition against loss of employment or longevity benefits.No employer doing business within the state of Rhode Island or otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the state of Rhode Island shall cause any of its employees to suffer the loss of the employee's position, wage increases, promotions, longevity benefit, or any other emolument due to the employer-employee relationship because the employee has been called to serve jury duty; provided, however, that no employer, in the absence of a contract or collective bargaining agreement to the contrary, shall be responsible to pay to the employee any compensation for the period of the jury duty. In addition to all civil rights available to the employee because of this section, a violation of this section upon conviction shall be punishable as a misdemeanor.History of Section.P.L. 1975, ch. 186, § 1.
RI Gen L § 9-9-29 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-9 - Jury Lists|Section 9-9-29 - Public transportation.

§ 9-9-29. Public transportation.The jury commissioner shall establish a procedure whereby, upon request, any serving juror shall be allowed the use of the regularly scheduled services of the Rhode Island public transit authority and the Pawtucket-Providence commuter ferry shuttle service and passage upon the Claiborne Pell Bridge free of charge on each day of the juror's service. A juror requesting these services shall be given a travel voucher valid for use of the services of the Rhode Island public transit authority or the Pawtucket-Providence commuter ferry shuttle service or tokens valid for passage upon the Claiborne Pell Bridge while he or she is serving as a juror.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 534, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 338, § 1.
RI Gen L § 9-9-30 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-9 - Jury Lists|Section 9-9-30 - Promulgation of rules and regulations.

§ 9-9-30. Promulgation of rules and regulations.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the jury commissioner shall, with the approval of the presiding justice of the superior court, promulgate rules and regulations for the efficient operation of the jury system within the counties of the state. Such rules and regulations shall become final after approval by the supreme court and upon filing in the office of the secretary of state, unless otherwise specified at the time of approval by the supreme court.History of Section.P.L. 1992, ch. 13, § 3.
RI Gen L § 9-10-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-1 - Notice by court of jurors required - Notifications to sergeants and constables.

§ 9-10-1. Notice by court of jurors required — Notifications to sergeants and constables.From time to time as occasion may require, the superior court or family court shall direct notices to be sent by the clerk thereof to the jury commissioner that there will be required for the county or counties for which the court is held a certain number of grand or petit jurors and the time and place at which they are required to attend. And the jury commissioner, on receiving the notice, shall take from the list of jurors qualified as provided in chapter 9 of this title, in the order in which their names appear on the jury list, so many names as may be required to ensure the attendance of the number of jurors required by the court and shall issue notifications to the city or town sergeant or any certified constable, either in person, or by one of his or her assistants, or by registered or certified mail, and under his or her hand and seal, designating who are grand and petit jurors, and the time and place at which the jurors are required to attend. Upon consent of the town sergeant of the town where any juror resides, the jury commissioner may retain the notifications for service by the jury commissioner or his or her agents.History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 20; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 20; G.L., ch. 329, § 22, as enacted by P.L. 1926, ch. 797, § 12; P.L. 1927, ch. 1015, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 20; G.L., ch. 506, § 18, as enacted by P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; impl. am. P.L. 1956, ch. 3717, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-1; P.L. 1979, ch. 124, § 1; P.L. 1981, ch. 71, § 2; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 20; P.L. 2015, ch. 260, § 10; P.L. 2015, ch. 275, § 10.
RI Gen L § 9-10-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-2 - Service of notice on jurors.

§ 9-10-2. Service of notice on jurors.The city or town sergeant or certified constable, upon receipt of the notification as provided in § 9-10-1, shall forthwith make service of the notification upon the persons named therein as jurors by delivering to each of them, or by leaving at their last and usual place of abode, a notice substantially in the following form:STATE OF RHODE ISLANDSc.TO ......................... Greeting:You are hereby notified that you have been drawn as a juror for the superior or family court for the county (or counties) of ......................... and you are required to attend the said court be holden at ......................... on the ......................... day of ........................., at ......................... o'clock in the forenoon. Sergeant.Constable.The jury commissioner or his or her agents, having retained the notifications in accordance with § 9-10-1, shall forthwith serve the notifications in the same form as contained in this section by regular mail. History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, §§ 21, 22; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, §§ 21, 22; P.L. 1926, ch. 797, § 12; P.L. 1927, ch. 1015, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 20; G.L., ch. 506, § 18, as enacted by P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-2; P.L. 1979, ch. 124, § 1; P.L. 1981, ch. 71, § 2; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 20; P.L. 2015, ch. 260, § 10; P.L. 2015, ch. 275, § 10; P.L. 2021, ch. 77, § 6, effective June 23, 2021; P.L. 2021, ch. 78, § 6, effective June 23, 2021.
RI Gen L § 9-10-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-3 - Service of summons by jury commissioner.

§ 9-10-3. Service of summons by jury commissioner.Whenever on receipt of a notice from the clerk of the superior or family court for grand or petit jurors it shall appear to the jury commissioner to be impossible to get the returns from the officer or officers who customarily serve the summons in proper time for the commissioner to make his or her returns to the clerk of the court, or upon consent of the town sergeant of the town where any juror resides, in accordance herewith, then the jury commissioner or some person connected with his or her office designated by him or her for such purpose may serve the summons upon any such jurors as have been listed for service at a session of the court; provided, that when any such summons is served by the jury commissioner or person designated by him or her, the town or city in which the service is made shall not be liable for the payment of the fee mentioned in § 9-10-2.History of Section.G.L., ch. 329, § 22, as enacted by P.L. 1927, ch. 1015, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 20; G.L., ch. 506, § 18, as enacted by P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-3; P.L. 1979, ch. 124, § 1; P.L. 1981, ch. 71, § 2.
RI Gen L § 9-10-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-4 - Return of notifications - Certificate as to investigation of jurors.

§ 9-10-4. Return of notifications — Certificate as to investigation of jurors.The notifications when served shall be returned forthwith by the officer serving them, either in person or by registered or certified mail, to the jury commissioner, who shall make out a list of the persons served, with their names, occupations, and residence appearing thereon and send the list, together with the notification, to the clerk of the court from which the notice came. Upon each list sent, the jury commissioner shall certify that all the names thereon contained are persons who have been investigated by him or her personally, or through his or her assistants, and found in his or her judgment to be persons well qualified to serve as jurors.History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 22; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 22; P.L. 1926, ch. 797, § 12; P.L. 1927, ch. 1015, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 20; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 18; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; impl. am. P.L. 1956, ch. 3717, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-4.
RI Gen L § 9-10-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-5 - Penalty for failure to serve notice on juror.

§ 9-10-5. Penalty for failure to serve notice on juror.Every officer charged with a notification to any person drawn as juror, who shall neglect to serve and return the notification as required in § 9-10-4, shall for each offense be fined twenty dollars ($20.00).History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 23; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 23; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 21; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 19; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-5; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 20.
RI Gen L § 9-10-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-6 - Service prohibited unless name drawn.

§ 9-10-6. Service prohibited unless name drawn.No person shall serve on any grand or petit jury in the courts of this state unless he or she shall have been drawn as hereinbefore provided.History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 24; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 24; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 20; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-6.
RI Gen L § 9-10-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-7 - Disqualification by prior jury service.

§ 9-10-7. Disqualification by prior jury service.No person summoned shall be qualified to serve as a juror who has served as a juror within three (3) years next preceding the time when he or she shall be so summoned; and the court shall, upon calling the person so summoned, inquire of him or her if he or she has so served.History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 25; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 25; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 23; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 21; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-7; P.L. 2001, ch. 239, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 288, § 1.
RI Gen L § 9-10-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-8 - Period of service of jurors.

§ 9-10-8. Period of service of jurors.No person summoned as a petit juror shall be required to serve more than two (2) weeks in any year in which he or she may be summoned; unless at the expiration of the period of two (2) weeks he or she shall be actually serving on a jury theretofore impaneled to try an issue then pending and undetermined, in which case he or she shall continue to serve until the trial is concluded. Notwithstanding the above provisions, if a juror has been tentatively selected to serve on a jury by the parties litigant and the juror has not been formally sworn and impaneled by the end of the two (2) week period, the trial judge, in his or her discretion, may extend the two (2) week term until the trial is concluded or until the juror is excused. Provided every person summoned as a grand juror shall serve as such in the term for which he or she is summoned for such time or times as the court may require and until a succeeding grand jury shall be called and impaneled as provided by law.History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 26; P.L. 1921, ch. 2102, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 26; P.L. 1928, ch. 1204, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 24; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 22; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-8; P.L. 1972, ch. 112, § 1.
RI Gen L § 9-10-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-9 - Grounds for excuse from service.

§ 9-10-9. Grounds for excuse from service.A justice of the superior court or the family court, or the jury commissioner, may excuse a person from jury duty or may continue the date of the service upon a showing of mental or physical disability, illness, or the serious illness of some member of his or her immediate family, economic or domestic hardship, or other good cause; provided, that he or she may be required to serve his or her term or the remainder thereof, as the case may be, on an emergency panel of jurors, if such a panel is deemed necessary by the jury commissioner or the presiding justice of the superior or family court. The discretion to so excuse may be exercised by the appropriate party at any time during the selection or assignment of jurors.History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 27; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 27; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 25; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 23; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-9; P.L. 1980, ch. 242, § 1.
RI Gen L § 9-10-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-10 - Penalty for failure of juror to attend.

§ 9-10-10. Penalty for failure of juror to attend.Every person duly notified to attend any court as juror, who does not attend as required or give satisfactory excuse to the court for not attending, or shall absent himself/herself therefrom without leave of the court, shall be brought before the court and, upon being adjudged in contempt, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20.00).History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 28; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 28; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 26; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 24; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-10.
RI Gen L § 9-10-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-11 - Fines levied against jurors.

§ 9-10-11. Fines levied against jurors.All fines incurred by jurors and persons returned or notified as jurors under this chapter shall be levied and collected to the use of the state by warrant of distress from the court, directed to the sheriff or his or her deputy of the county in which the person dwells or his or her estate is to be found.History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 29; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 29; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 27; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 25; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-11.
RI Gen L § 9-10-11.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-11.1 - Size of juries in civil cases.

§ 9-10-11.1. Size of juries in civil cases.Juries in civil cases shall be composed of six (6) persons and such alternate jurors as may be called pursuant to § 9-10-13.History of Section.P.L. 1977, ch. 156, § 1.
RI Gen L § 9-10-11.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-11.2 - Qualification and division of petit jury panels.

§ 9-10-11.2. Qualification and division of petit jury panels.The presiding justice of the superior court and the chief judge of the family court may assign a justice of those courts or the jury commissioner for the purpose of qualifying petit jurors and dividing the petit jury panels into subpanels. The assigned justice shall order the panel of petit jurors to be divided into two (2) or more subpanels, constituting of not less than twenty-five (25) members each in criminal cases and fifteen (15) members each in civil cases, so that juries may be impaneled from less than the total number summoned in several courtrooms and in civil and criminal cases at the same time; and the assigned justice may thereafter order the consolidation of several subpanels or all of them or may order additions to each of them from other subpanels and may continue, in like manner, as often as he or she shall deem it to be necessary to accomplish the purpose of this section. The subdivision of the panel into subpanels and additions to the subpanels shall be by lot and the names of jurors so drawn by lot shall be placed in a box provided for that purpose.History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 98, § 2.
RI Gen L § 9-10-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-12 - Drawing and impaneling of trial jury.

§ 9-10-12. Drawing and impaneling of trial jury.On the day when the petit jurors are summoned to attend at a court in any court for the trial of either civil or criminal cases, the clerk shall cause the name and place of abode of each person summoned as a juror to be written upon a separate paper, all of which papers shall be as nearly as may be of the same size, and shall cause them to be placed in a box provided for that purpose. When a case is brought on to be tried, the clerk in open court shall shake the papers thoroughly and shall then draw out twelve (12) papers in criminal cases or six (6) papers in civil cases, one after the other, or such other number as ordered by the court. If any of the persons whose names are so drawn do not appear, or are excused, or are set aside, the clerk shall draw out other papers until the names of an appropriate number of jurors are drawn who appear and are not excused or set aside. The jurors shall be duly sworn and impaneled, and shall be the jury to try the issue, and one of them shall be appointed foreperson by the court. The names of the jurors so sworn shall be kept by themselves and, when the verdict of the jury has been recorded or when the jury has been discharged by consent of parties or by leave of court, shall be returned to the box; and this process shall be repeated in each case when an issue is brought on to be tried by the jury; but if an issue is so brought on before the verdict in any other case has been recorded or the jury in the case has been discharged, the court may order a jury for the trial of such issue to be impaneled by drawing, in the manner provided, of papers from those then remaining in the box.History of Section.P.L. 1920, ch. 1948, § 36; G.L. 1923, ch. 329, § 36; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 34; G.L. 1938, ch. 506, § 32; P.L. 1939, ch. 700, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 9-10-12; P.L. 1972, ch. 169, § 5; P.L. 1977, ch. 156, § 2.
RI Gen L § 9-10-12.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-12.1 - Repealed.

§ 9-10-12.1. Repealed.History of Section.P.L. 1962, ch. 203, § 1; P.L. 1977, ch. 156, § 2; Repealed by P.L. 1980, ch. 98, § 1.
RI Gen L § 9-10-12.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally|Chapter 9-10 - Selection of Jury|Section 9-10-12.2 - Subpanels in any county.

§ 9-10-12.2. Subpanels in any county.The provisions of § 9-10-11.2 may be made applicable to any county outside the counties of Providence and Bristol by order of the presiding justice of the superior court whenever he or she shall determine that the expedition of jury trials in that county will be furthered or improved thereby.History of Section.P.L. 1975, ch. 236, § 1; P.L. 1980, ch. 98, § 3.