Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 15-12-1.1. Exemptions From Jury Duty

History. Laws 1843, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 1074.; Code 1863, § 3845; Code 1868, § 3865; Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 29, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1872, p. 33, § 1; Ga. L. 1873, p. 31, § 1; Code 1873, § 3939; Ga. L. 1874, p. 46, § 1; Ga. L. 1874, p. 91, § 4; Ga. L. 1875, p. 96, § 1; Ga. L. 1875, p. 98, § 1; Ga. L. 1876, p. 16, § 1; Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 171, § 1; Ga. L. 1880-81, p. 112, § 1; Ga. L. 1880-81, p. 114, § 1; Code 1882, § 3939; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 74, § 12; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 94, § 1; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 102, § 1; Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 219, § 1; Penal Code 1895, § 867; Ga. L. 1899, p. 69, § 1; Ga. L. 1905, p. 105, § 1; Penal Code 1910, § 871; Code 1933, § 59-112; Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 284, § 2; Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 328, § 1; Ga. L. 1967, p. 725, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1975, p. 779, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 221, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1379, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 1697, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 512, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1682, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 213, § 1/SB 258; Ga. L. 2006, p. 124, § 1/HB 376; Ga. L. 2007, p. 47, § 15/SB 103; Ga. L. 2008, p. 343, § 1/HB 188; Code 1981, § 15-12-1.1 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-5/HB 415; Ga. L. 2014, p. 451, § 4/HB 776; Ga. L. 2014, p. 862, § 2/HB 1078.
The 2014 amendments. —
The first 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, in subsection (b), substituted “clerk” for “board of jury commissioners” in the second sentence, in the third sentence, deleted “board or” preceding “clerk in writing” and substituted “clerk may” for “board may” near the end, and substituted “clerk” for “board of jury commissioners of each county” in the last sentence. The second 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, inserted “as a trial or grand juror” in the first sentence of paragraph (a)(1).
History of Code section.
The language of this Code section was derived in part from the decision in Stater v. State, 141 Ga. 82 , 80 S.E. 850 (1913).
Cross references.
Discrimination against employee for attending a judicial proceeding in response to a court order or process, § 34-1-3 .
Exemption from jury duty for officers and enlisted personnel of organized militia, § 38-2-276 .
Authority of probate courts to enact local rules, Uniform Rules for the Probate Courts, Rule 1.2.
Editor’s notes.
This Code section formerly pertained to exemptions from jury duty in counties which have established a plan for electronic or mechanical selection of jurors. The former Code section was based on Code 1933, § 59-112.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 652, § 1, and was repealed by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1167, § 2, effective April 7, 1984.
Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-1/HB 415, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Jury Composition Reform Act of 2011.’ ”
Law reviews.
For article surveying developments in Georgia criminal law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 95 (1981).

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