Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 45 - Juries and Jurors

Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 45 (Reserved) was added July 9, 1976, P.L.586,...

Section 4501 - Declaration of policy - It is the policy of this Commonwealth that: (1) All...

Section 4502 - Qualifications of jurors - (a) General rule.--Every citizen of this Commonwealth who is of...

Section 4503 - Exemptions from jury duty - (a) General rule.--No person shall be exempt or excused from...

Section 4521 - Selection of prospective jurors - (a) Preparation of master list of prospective jurors.-- (1) At...

Section 4521.1 - Statewide jury information system - (a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any prohibition found in any other law,...

Section 4522 - List of qualified jurors - After receipt of the juror qualification forms as provided in...

Section 4523 - List of disqualified jurors - (a) Maintenance of list.--The jury selection commission shall create and...

Section 4524 - Selection of jurors for service - Except as otherwise provided in section 4525 (relating to equipment...

Section 4525 - Equipment used for selection of jurors - The jury selection commission is authorized, but not required, to...

Section 4526 - Challenging compliance with selection procedures - (a) Challenge to array.--Within ten days after publication of the...

Section 4527 - Effect of verdict on jury selection errors - Except as otherwise prescribed by general rule, errors and omissions...

Section 4531 - Issuance of court orders for jurors - Court orders directing the jury selection commission to select an...

Section 4532 - Summoning persons to serve as jurors - Persons who have been selected for service as jurors shall...

Section 4541 - Short title of subchapter - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

Section 4542 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter...

Section 4543 - Convening county investigating grand jury - (a) General rule.--In addition to such other grand juries as...

Section 4544 - Convening multicounty investigating grand jury - (a) General rule.--Application for a multicounty investigating grand jury may...

Section 4545 - Composition of investigating grand jury - (a) General rule.--Each investigating grand jury shall be composed initially...

Section 4546 - Term of investigating grand jury - (a) General rule.--An investigating grand jury shall not be limited...

Section 4547 - Additional investigating grand juries - Whenever the attorney for the Commonwealth determines that the volume...

Section 4548 - Powers of investigating grand jury - (a) General rule.--The investigating grand jury shall have the power...

Section 4549 - Investigating grand jury proceedings - (a) Documents and transcript.--Any document produced before an investigating grand...

Section 4550 - Submission of investigations by attorney for the Commonwealth to investigating grand jury - (a) General rule.--Before submitting an investigation to the investigating grand...

Section 4551 - Investigating grand jury presentments - (a) General rule.--Should the investigating grand jury determine that upon...

Section 4552 - Investigating grand jury reports - (a) General rule.--Any investigating grand jury, by an affirmative majority...

Section 4553 - Expenses of investigating grand juries and trials resulting therefrom - (a) County.--The expenses of a county investigating grand jury shall...

Section 4561 - Compensation of and travel allowance for jurors - (a) Compensation.--A person summoned to serve as a juror shall...

Section 4562 - Juror's right to refuse inquiries - Except where jury tampering is being investigated by the proper...

Section 4563 - Protection of employment of petit and grand jurors - (a) General rule.--An employer shall not deprive an employee of...

Section 4563.1 - Protection of employment of grand jurors (Deleted by amendment) - 1982 Amendment. Section 4563.1 was deleted by amendment December 20,...

Section 4564 - Alternate jurors - Alternate jurors shall be selected and shall serve as jurors...

Section 4565 - Challenging certain petit jurors where political subdivision is a party - A person shall not be challenged for cause and excluded...

Section 4581 - Interfering with selection of jurors - (a) Commission members and employees.--Any member of the jury selection...

Section 4582 - Tampering with names of jurors - Any person who directly or indirectly unlawfully tampers with the...

Section 4583 - Tampering with jurors - Any person who, having in any manner ascertained the names...

Section 4583.1 - Aggravated jury tampering - (a) Offense defined.--A person commits the offense of aggravated jury...

Section 4584 - Failure of juror to appear - A prospective juror who has been summoned to serve as...