Texas Government Code Title 2, Chapter 62 - Petit Juries

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 62.001 - Jury Source; Reconstitution Of Jury Wheel
  (a) The jury wheel must be reconstituted by using, as the source: (1) the names of all persons on the current voter registration lists from...
• Texas Section 62.002 - Jury Wheel Cards
  (a) The officials or their deputies who reconstitute the jury wheel shall write on a separate jury wheel card of uniform size and color the...
• Texas Section 62.003 - Construction And Security Of Jury Wheel
  (a) The commissioners court shall provide a jury wheel in which to deposit the jury wheel cards. (b) The jury wheel must revolve freely on...
• Texas Section 62.004 - Drawing Names For Jury Lists
  (a) The county clerk and the sheriff of the county shall draw the names of the prospective jurors for a county court from the jury...
• Texas Section 62.005 - Observation Of Drawing Of Names
  (a) On written application of a party in a case that is pending on the docket of a justice, county, or district court for which...
• Texas Section 62.006 - Certification Of Jury Lists
  (a) The county or district clerk or the clerk's deputy who draws the names of prospective jurors and the judge in whose presence the names...
• Texas Section 62.007 - Envelopes Containing Jury Lists; Oath
  (a) The justice of the peace or the county or district judge receiving an envelope containing a jury list shall inspect the envelope for proper...
• Texas Section 62.008 - Envelopes Containing Jury Wheel Cards
  (a) At the time that names are drawn for jury service and placed on a jury list, the jury wheel cards containing the names on...
• Texas Section 62.009 - Reuse Of Jury Wheel Cards
  (a) After jurors are impaneled and serve at least four days, the clerk or his deputy shall open the envelope containing the jury wheel cards...
• Texas Section 62.010 - Refilling Or Replacement Of Jury Wheel
  (a) If all the jury wheel cards have been drawn from the jury wheel, jury wheel cards shall immediately be returned to the jury wheel....
• Texas Section 62.011 - Electronic Or Mechanical Method Of Selection
  (a) On the recommendation of a majority of the district and criminal district judges of a county, the commissioners court, by order entered in its...
• Texas Section 62.0111 - Computer Or Telephone Response To Summons
  (a) A plan authorized under Section 62.011 for the selection of names of prospective jurors may allow for a prospective juror to appear in response...
• Texas Section 62.012 - Use Of Jury Lists
  (a) When a justice of the peace or a county or district judge requires a jury for a particular week, the judge, within a reasonable...
• Texas Section 62.0125 - Summons For Jury Service On General Election Day Prohibited
  Prospective jurors may not be summoned to appear for jury service on the date of the general election for state and county officers. Added by...
• Texas Section 62.013 - Summons For Jury Service By Sheriff Or Constable
  (a) Except as provided by Section 62.014, the sheriff or constable, on receipt of a jury list from a county or district clerk, shall immediately...
• Texas Section 62.0131 - Form Of Written Jury Summons
  (a) The Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System shall develop and maintain a model for a uniform written jury summons in this...
• Texas Section 62.0132 - Written Jury Summons Questionnaire
  (a) The Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System shall develop and maintain a questionnaire to accompany a written jury summons. (b) A...
• Texas Section 62.014 - Summons For Jury Service By Bailiffs
  (a) In a county with at least nine district courts, the district judges may direct that prospective jurors be summoned for jury service by the...
• Texas Section 62.0141 - Failure To Answer Jury Summons
  In addition to any criminal penalty prescribed by law, a person summoned for jury service who does not comply with the summons as required by...
• Texas Section 62.0142 - Notice On Written Summons
  If a written summons for jury duty allows a person to claim a disqualification or exemption by signing a statement and returning it to the...
• Texas Section 62.0143 - Postponement Of Jury Service
  (a) A person summoned for jury service may request a postponement of the person's initial appearance for jury service. The person may request the postponement...
• Texas Section 62.0144 - Postponement Of Jury Service In Certain Counties
  (a) This section applies only to a county: (1) with a population of 1.4 million or more; and (2) that has within its boundaries at...
• Texas Section 62.0145 - Removal Of Certain Persons From Pool Of Prospective Jurors
  Except as provided by Section 62.0146, if a written summons for jury service sent by a sheriff, constable, or bailiff is undeliverable, the county or...
• Texas Section 62.0146 - Updating Addresses Of Certain Persons In Pool Of Prospective Jurors
  If a written summons for jury service sent by a sheriff, constable, or bailiff is returned with a notation from the United States Postal Service...
• Texas Section 62.0147 - Means Of Postponement Of Jury Service In Certain Counties
  (a) This section applies only to a county that has: (1) a council of judges composed of the judges of the district courts and county...
• Texas Section 62.015 - Selection Of Jury Panel
  (a) On the day that jurors appear for jury service in a justice, county, or district court, the judge, if jury trials have been set,...
• Texas Section 62.016 - Interchangeable Juries In Certain Counties
  (a) In each county with at least three district or criminal district courts, the district judges shall meet and determine the approximate number of prospective...
• Texas Section 62.017 - Interchangeable Jurors In Certain Other Counties
  (a) In a county with two district courts, the judges of the two courts may meet at a time fixed by them and determine the...
• Texas Section 62.0175 - Interchangeable Jurors In Counties With A Single District Court And A Single County Court At Law With Concurrent Jurisdiction
  (a) In a county with only one district court and only one county court at law that has concurrent jurisdiction with the district court in...
• Texas Section 62.018 - Quarters For General Panels
  (a) The commissioners court of a county that uses an interchangeable general jury panel shall provide a comfortable place in or near the county courthouse...
• Texas Section 62.019 - Bailiffs For General Panels
  (a) Except as provided by this section, the sheriff of a county that uses an interchangeable general jury panel shall assign one of his deputies...
• Texas Section 62.020 - Alternate Jurors
  (a) In district court, the judge may direct that not more than four jurors in addition to the regular jury be called and impaneled to...

SUBCHAPTER B JUROR QUALIFICATIONS

• Texas Section 62.021 - Dismissal Of Juror Removed From Panel
  In a county with a population of two million or more, a prospective juror removed from a jury panel for cause, by peremptory challenge or...
• Texas Section 62.101 - Jury Service
  All individuals are competent petit jurors unless disqualified under this subchapter and are liable for jury service except as otherwise provided by this subchapter. Acts...
• Texas Section 62.102 - General Qualifications For Jury Service
  A person is disqualified to serve as a petit juror unless the person: (1) is at least 18 years of age; (2) is a citizen...
• Texas Section 62.103 - Suspension Of General Qualifications
  (a) A court may suspend the qualification for jury service that requires a person to be able to read and write if it appears to...
• Texas Section 62.1031 - Failure To Register To Vote
  Failure to register to vote does not disqualify a person from jury service. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 132, Sec. 5, eff. Sept....
• Texas Section 62.104 - Disqualification For Legal Blindness
  (a) A person who is legally blind is not disqualified to serve as a juror in a civil case solely because of his legal blindness...
• Texas Section 62.1041 - Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing Juror
  (a) A deaf or hard of hearing person is not disqualified to serve as a juror solely because of hearing loss except as provided by...
• Texas Section 62.105 - Disqualification For Particular Jury
  A person is disqualified to serve as a petit juror in a particular case if he: (1) is a witness in the case; (2) is...
• Texas Section 62.106 - Exemption From Jury Service
  (a) A person qualified to serve as a petit juror may establish an exemption from jury service if the person: (1) is over 70 years...
• Texas Section 62.107 - Procedures For Establishing Exemptions
  (a) A person who is notified to appear for jury service may establish an exemption from the service under Section 62.106 without appearing in person...
• Texas Section 62.108 - Permanent Exemption For Elderly
  (a) A person who is entitled to exemption from jury service because the person is over 70 years of age may establish a permanent exemption...
• Texas Section 62.109 - Exemption For Physical Or Mental Impairment Or Inability To Comprehend English
  (a) The judge of a district court by order may permanently or for a specified period exempt from service as a juror in all the...
• Texas Section 62.110 - Judicial Excuse Of Juror
  (a) Except as provided by this section, a court may hear any reasonable sworn excuse of a prospective juror, including any claim of an exemption...
• Texas Section 62.111 - Penalty For Defaulting Jurors
  A juror lawfully notified shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 if the juror: (1) fails to attend court in obedience...
• Texas Section 62.112 - Excuse Of Juror For Religious Holy Day
  (a) In this section: (1) "Religious organization" means an organization that meets the standards for qualification as a religious organization under Section 11.20, Tax Code....
• Texas Section 62.113 - Compilation Of List Of Noncitizens
  (a) The clerk of the court shall maintain a list of the name and address of each person who is excused or disqualified under this...

SUBCHAPTER C DISTRICT COURT JURIES

• Texas Section 62.114 - Compilation Of List Of Nonresidents
  (a) The clerk of the court shall maintain a list containing the name and address of each person who is excused or disqualified under this...
• Texas Section 62.201 - Number Of Jurors
  The jury in a district court is composed of 12 persons, except that the parties may agree to try a particular case with fewer than...

SUBCHAPTER D COUNTY COURT AND JUSTICE COURT JURIES

• Texas Section 62.202 - Meals During Jury Deliberation
  (a) In a county in which the commissioners court has approved payment by the county for meals for jurors who are serving on a jury...
• Texas Section 62.301 - Number Of Jurors
  The jury in the county courts and in the justice courts is composed of six persons. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff....

SUBCHAPTER E JUSTICE COURT JURIES

• Texas Section 62.302 - Drawing Names For Jury Service In Certain County Courts
  (a) The county judge or a judge of a county court at law may order the drawing of names from the jury wheel if the...
• Texas Section 62.411 - Justice Court Rules
  (a) In addition to other methods of jury selection provided by this chapter, a justice of the peace may issue a writ commanding the sheriff...

SUBCHAPTER F MUNICIPAL COURT JURIES

• Texas Section 62.412 - Summoning Prospective Jurors Directly To Justice Court
  (a) A county that uses interchangeable juries under Section 62.016 may summon a prospective juror to report directly to a justice court in the precinct...
• Texas Section 62.501 - Qualification
  To be eligible to serve on a jury of a municipal court, including a municipal court of record, a person must be resident of the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016