Florida Statutes Title V Chapter 40 - Juries; Payment Of Jurors And Due Process Costs

• 40.001 - Chief Judge; Authority; Duties.
  The chief judge of each judicial circuit is vested with overall authority and responsibility for the management, operation, and oversight of the jury system within...
• 40.01 - Qualifications Of Jurors.
  Jurors shall be taken from the male and female persons at least 18 years of age who are citizens of the United States and legal...
• 40.011 - Jury Lists.
  (1) A clerk of the court shall generate a set of juror candidate lists derived from the source lists described in s. 40.01. The source name...
• 40.013 - Persons Disqualified Or Excused From Jury Service.
  (1) No person who is under prosecution for any crime, or who has been convicted in this state, any federal court, or any other state, territory,...
• 40.015 - Jury Districts; Counties Exceeding 50,000.
  (1) In any county having a population exceeding 50,000 according to the last preceding decennial census and one or more locations in addition to the county...
• 40.02 - Selection Of Jury Lists.
  (1) The chief judge or the chief judge’s designee shall direct the clerk of the court to select, by lot and at random, a sufficient number...
• 40.022 - Clerk To Purge Jury Selection Lists; Restoration.
  (1) To ensure that the juror candidates summoned satisfy the requirements of ss. 40.01 and 40.013, each clerk of the circuit court shall, upon receipt of...
• 40.221 - Drawing Jury Venire.
  A clerk of the court, under supervision of a judge of any court of record, shall, in a manner deemed to produce a result by...
• 40.225 - Jury Selection Plan.
  (1) Pursuant to s. 40.001, the chief judge of each circuit shall review and consent to the process for selecting juror candidates within his or her...
• 40.23 - Summoning Jurors.
  (1) The clerk of the court shall generate a venire as prescribed in s. 40.221 and shall summon the persons named in such venire to attend...
• 40.231 - Jury Pools.
  When persons named in a jury venire generated by the clerk are summoned to attend a court as jurors, they may be placed in a...
• 40.235 - Juror Accommodations.
  Whenever jurors are required by law or by order of court to be kept together during the conduct of a trial or while considering their...
• 40.24 - Compensation And Reimbursement Policy.
  (1) The compensation policy of this chapter shall be to prevent financial hardship being imposed upon any juror because of performance of juror service.(2) Juror service constitutes...
• 40.26 - Meals And Lodging For Jurors.
  The sheriff, when required by order of the court, shall provide juries with meals and lodging, the expense to be paid by the clerk of...
• 40.271 - Jury Service.
  (1) No person summoned to serve on any grand or petit jury in this state, or accepted to serve on any grand or petit jury in...
• 40.29 - Payment Of Due-process Costs.
  (1) Each clerk of the circuit court, on behalf of the state attorney, private court-appointed counsel, the public defender, and the criminal conflict and civil regional...
• 40.31 - Justice Administrative Commission May Apportion Appropriation.
  If the Justice Administrative Commission has reason to believe that the amount appropriated by the Legislature is insufficient to meet the expenses of witnesses during...
• 40.32 - Clerks To Disburse Money; Payments To Jurors And Witnesses.
  (1) All moneys drawn from the treasury under the provisions of this chapter by the clerk of the court shall be disbursed by the clerk of...
• 40.33 - Deficiency.
  If the funds required for payment of the items enumerated in s. 40.29(1) in any county during a quarterly fiscal period exceeds the amount of...
• 40.34 - Clerks To Make Triplicate Payroll.
  (1) The clerk of the court shall make out a payroll in triplicate for the payment of witnesses, which payroll shall contain:(a) The name of each witness...
• 40.355 - Accounting And Payment.
  The clerk of the court shall, within 2 weeks after the last day of the state’s quarterly fiscal period, render to the state attorney, the...
• 40.361 - Applicability Of Laws Regarding State Budgeting And Finances.
  The requirements contained within chapter 216, including the provisions of s. 216.192 related to release of funds, chapter 29, including ss. 29.015 and 29.016 related...
• 40.41 - Petit Jurors; Length Of Service.
  The length of the term of service for a petit juror shall not exceed 1 day unless the juror is assigned to or impaneled on...
• 40.50 - Jury Duty And Instructions In Civil Cases.
  (1) In any civil action immediately after the jury is sworn, the court shall instruct the jury concerning its duties, its conduct, the order of proceedings,...

Last modified: September 23, 2016