South Carolina General Assembly
107th Session, 1987-1988

Bill 583

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               583
Ratification Number:       525
Act Number                 473
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Excused jurors
View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.

(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)

(A473, R525, S583)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 14-7-870, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO EXCUSED JURORS, SO AS TO REVISE THE PROCEDURE FOR PLACING AN EXCUSED JUROR ON THE PANEL OF A TERM OF COURT.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Excused jurors

SECTION 1. Section 14-7-870 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 14-7-870. Whenever a juror is so excused, unless the cause of the excuse is permanent physical disability of the juror or the juror is a member of one of the classes of persons set forth in Section 14-7-840, the name of the juror must be placed by the jury commissioners on the succeeding panel of the same term, or the next term or a subsequent term of court. The name of the juror so placed on any panel must be in addition to the seventy-five names required to be placed on the panel under the provisions of Section 14-7-200, and the juror shall attend the court on the first day of the week for which he has been so designated without the issuance or service of any further process.

He shall serve as a substitute on the panel in the stead and place of any one of the jurors drawn on the panel whose attendance cannot then be procured or who may be excused from attendance on the panel for cause as provided in this article."

Time effective

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.