Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 82.djvu/98

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PUBLIC LAW 90-000—MMMM. DD, 1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-274-MAR. 27, 1968

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^' venience tG*tIie members thereof, and excuse of members thereof -aa-. ^i^ould not be inconsistent with sections 1861 and 1862 of this title. -aaiixi "(6) specify those groups of persons or occupational classes J)'j'iTft;^hose members shall be barred from jury service on the ground s')if ijjthat they are exempt. Such groups or classes shall be exempt only if • if the district court finds, and the plan states, that their exemption is in the public interest and would not be inconsistent with sections 1861 and 1862 of this title. The plan shall provide for exemption of the following persons: (i) members in active service in the Armed Forces of the United States; (ii) members of the fire .iioir.ior police departments of any State, district, territory, possession, ni 'i'^s&r subdivision thereof; (iii) public officers in the executive, legishii lative, or judicial branches of the Government of the United ^ • States, or any State, district, territory, or possession or subdivision thereof, who are actively engaged in the performance of official ,.;,i5i 'itjujiduties. -^""S ool51 i " (7) fix the distance, either in miles or in travel time, from each io place of holding court beyond which prospective jurors residing A':>} shall, on individual request therefor, be excused from jury service Y*' on the ground of undue hardship in traveling to the place where court is held. Names dis Yiii[ "(8) fix the time when the names drawn from the qualified jury closure. !"•( wheel shall be disclosed to parties and to the public. If the plan permits these names to be made public, it may nevertheless permit the chief judge of the district court, or such other district court judge as the plan may provide, to keep these names confidential to Hiim any case where the interests of justice so require. -ijilofi "(9) specify the procedures to be followed by the clerk or jury b9'3ii(commission in assigning persons whose names have been drawn ifc? fifpom the qualified jury wheel to grand and petit jury panels. Plan transmittal. «(^.^ ^j^g iuitial plau shall be devlsed by each district court and transmitted to the reviewing panel specified in subsection (a) of this section within one hundred and twenty days of the date of enactment of the J u r y Selection and Service Act of 1968. The panel shall approve or direct the modification of each plan so submitted within sixty days Effective date. thereafter. Each plan or modification made at the direction of the panel shall become effective after approval at such time thereafter as the panel directs, in no event to exceed ninety days from the date of approval. Modifications made at the instance of the district court '^^"* "' under subsection (a) of this section shall be effective at such time thereafter as the panel directs, in no event to exceed aimetjp^ days from the date of modification.

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^"TaJiT^ " (d) State, local, and Federal officials having custody, possession, rec'^rds!^avaiia- Or contxol of votcr registration lists, lists of actual voters, or other biiity. appropriate records shall make such lists and records available to the jury commission or clerks for inspection, reproduction, and copying at all reasonable times as the commission or clerk may deem necessary and proper for the performance of duties under this title. The district courts shall have jurisdiction upon application by the Attorney GenMiisKii inaoiuhljii lybio '(• • a.B s);gbiJ[ ijdVUf-

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