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Title 600, REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961

3 chapters · 1,641 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 6001,641 Ch 236-of-1961, REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 19611,632 Ch 47-of-2024, TRIAL COURT FUNDING ACT OF 20249

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1301a Courts in which selection of juries governed by chapter; exceptions.
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Sec. 1301a. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), this chapter governs the selection of juries in the following courts: (a) Circuit court. (b) Probate court. (c) District court. (2) Sections 1310, 1311, 1312, 1321(1), 1322, 1323, 1330, 1338, and 1343 do not apply to a court t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1301b Modified system of jury selection; development of plan; goals; review, approval, adoption, and implementation of plan; exceptions.
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Sec. 1301b. (1) Within 2 years after the effective date of this section each circuit of the circuit court shall develop a plan for the implementation of a modified system of jury selection in their respective courts. (2) Each plan shall specify methods for utilizing eligible juro…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1302 Jury board; election of president and secretary; salary of members; quorum.
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Sec. 1302. The jury board shall elect annually from its members a president and secretary. The members of the board shall be paid an annual salary in an amount fixed by the board of commissioners or, instead of an annual salary, be paid an amount fixed by the board of commissione…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1303 Jury board; authorization and salaries of assistants.

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Sec. 1303. The county board of commissioners of each county may authorize assistants to the jury board and fix their salaries.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1303a Jury board; oath; filing.

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Sec. 1303a. Before members of a jury board begin their duties, they shall take a constitutional oath of office before the chief circuit judge and file it with the county clerk.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1304 Selection of jurors; list.

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Sec. 1304. The jury board shall select from a list that combines the driver's license list and the personal identification cardholder list the names of persons as provided in this chapter to serve as jurors.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1304a Use of electronic and mechanical devices by jury; other method.

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Sec. 1304a. (1) The jury board may use electronic and mechanical devices in carrying out its duties under this chapter. (2) The jury board may use the historic method of preparing separate slips of paper for the second jury list and drawing slips from a jury board box to determin…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1305 Jury board; meetings; records; use as evidence.

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Sec. 1305. The jury board shall meet annually in the month of May. The chief circuit judge shall fix the time and place of the annual meeting and may direct the board to meet at other times and places. The board may meet at other times and places necessary to carry out its duties…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1307a Qualifications of juror; exemptions; effect of payment for jury service; definitions.

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Sec. 1307a. (1) To qualify as a juror, an individual must meet all of the following criteria: (a) Be a citizen of the United States, 18 years of age or older, and a resident in the county for which the individual is selected, and in the case of a district court in districts of th…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1308 Jurors; estimate of number needed.

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Sec. 1308. On or before each May 1, the chief judge of each court of record in the county shall estimate the number of jurors that will be needed by their courts for a 1-year period beginning the following September. This estimate shall be entered on the record of the court, and …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1309 Jurors; list of those who have served.

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Sec. 1309. The board shall secure from the clerk of each court of record in the county, and each clerk shall provide, a list of persons who have served as jurors, pursuant to this chapter, in their courts during the preceding 1 year.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1310 Voter registration lists and combined driver's license and personal identification cardholder list; procurement; alternatives; costs.

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Sec. 1310. (1) The secretary of state shall transmit annually before April 15 to the clerk of each county at no expense a full, current, and accurate copy of a list that combines the driver's license list and personal identification cardholder list pertaining to persons residing …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1311 Determination of key number.

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Sec. 1311. The board shall arrive at a key number as follows: (a) Add the number of jurors the judge has estimated will be needed to the number that experience has shown will be eliminated because of disqualification or exemption. Example: If the judge estimates 100 jurors will b…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1312 Key number; first jury list; compilation.

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Sec. 1312. The board shall apply the key number uniformly to the names on the list received pursuant to section 1310 and compile a list or card index, to be known as the first jury list, which shall include every name and only those names as the application of the key number has …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1313 Juror qualifications questionnaire; contents; completion; mailing; removal of deceased person from list.

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Sec. 1313. (1) The board shall supply a juror qualifications questionnaire to each person on the first jury list, regardless of whether the person previously failed to return a juror qualification questionnaire. This questionnaire shall contain blanks for the information the boar…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1314 Excusal of exempt persons; investigations.

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Sec. 1314. On the basis of answers to the juror qualifications questionnaires the board may excuse from service persons on the first jury list who claim exemption and give satisfactory proof of such right, and all persons who are not qualified for jury service. The board may inve…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1315 Juror qualifications questionnaires; retention; confidentiality.

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Sec. 1315. The juror qualifications questionnaires shall be kept on file by the board for a period of 3 years but the chief circuit judge may order them to be kept on file for a longer period. The answers to the qualifications questionnaires shall not be disclosed except that the…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1316 Jurors; appearance before board; notice; evening sessions.

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Sec. 1316. The chief circuit judge, or the board, may require any person on the first jury list to appear before a board member at a specified time, for the purpose of testifying under oath or affirmation concerning his or her qualification to serve as a juror, in addition to com…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1317 Jurors; personal attendance excused.

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Sec. 1317. The board may dispense with the personal attendance of a person notified to appear before the board when another person cognizant of facts which will qualify or disqualify the person from service or which prevent the person from appearing is produced and testifies in h…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1318 Jurors; oaths, administration.

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Sec. 1318. A board member may administer an oath or affirmation in relation to the examination of any matter embraced in this act.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1319 Record of persons examined.

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Sec. 1319. The board shall keep a record of the board member's report on each person examined, and a record showing the qualifications to serve as a juror of each person on the first jury list.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1320 Preliminary screening of prospective jurors; excused persons; removal of deceased person's name from list; hardship.

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Sec. 1320. (1) The board shall make a preliminary screening of the qualifications and exemptions of prospective jurors and shall not include in the second jury list the names of persons it finds not qualified or exempt; but the court may decide upon the qualifications and exempti…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1321 Second jury list; sealing; jurisdiction of district court district.

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Sec. 1321. (1) The names of those persons on the first jury list whom the board accepts as persons qualified for and not exempt from jury service shall be compiled into a list to be known as the second jury list. The list shall remain sealed until otherwise ordered by the chief c…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1322 Juror names; depositing; withdrawal; record.

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Sec. 1322. The first deposit of names shall take place as soon as the second jury list is prepared. Subsequent deposits shall be made when the supply of names is exhausted. An earlier deposit may be ordered by the chief circuit judge. The board shall keep a record of the number o…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1323 Names not used; sealing.

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Sec. 1323. If the names are not to be immediately used, they shall be sealed up by the board and remain in the custody of the board until additional names are needed or when ordered by the chief circuit judge.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1324 Jurors; selection; information; contents; district court district.

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Sec. 1324. (1) From time to time, the chief judge of each court of record in the county shall order the board to select jurors for jury service. Each such order shall contain all of the following information: (a) A time limit within which the selection shall be completed. (b) The…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1326 Grand jurors; selection; term.

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Sec. 1326. If a grand jury is ordered by the court, or required by statute, the board shall select the names of a sufficient number of persons, as determined by the chief circuit judge, to serve as grand jurors in accordance with the provisions of section 11 of chapter VII of the…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1327 Jurors; selection; time; notice; witnesses.

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Sec. 1327. The selection of jurors shall take place in public within the time limit fixed by the chief circuit judge and at a time and place designated by the board. At the time and place appointed, the clerk or the clerk's deptuy and a judge or an elected official other than the…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1328 Jurors; selection; procedure.

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Sec. 1328. The board shall proceed in the selection of jurors in a random manner as ordered by the chief circuit judge as provided in this section. A board member or an employee of the board shall keep a record of the selection process, listing the names of jurors selected. If th…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1329 Selection of jurors; legality; challenges; grounds.

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Sec. 1329. (1) The legality or regularity of the selection of jurors shall not be questioned if the record of the selection is properly signed. If the name of any person not qualified to serve as a juror is included in the names selected, this fact shall not be a ground of challe…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1330 Board box; closing, custody.

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Sec. 1330. When the drawing is finished, the board box shall be closed and sealed in the presence of the officers. All slips drawn out of the board box, unless destroyed as provided in this chapter, shall be delivered to the clerk of the court for which the jurors were drawn. The…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1331 Lists of jurors; delivery to clerk.

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Sec. 1331. The board shall deliver to the clerk lists containing the names and addresses of the jurors selected.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1332 Jurors; summons for service; method; record; evidence.

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Sec. 1332. The clerk, jury board, or sheriff shall summon jurors for court attendance at such times and in such manner as directed by the chief judge or by the judge to whom the action in which jurors are being called for service is assigned. For a juror's first required court ap…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1333 Jurors; excuse or postponement of services; application.

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Sec. 1333. A person who is notified to attend as a juror may apply to the chief judge of the court to be excused or have his or her term of service postponed on any ground provided in this chapter. He or she may apply in person or by a person capable of making the necessary proof…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1334 Jurors; temporary excuse; duty to report.

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Sec. 1334. (1) The chief judge may excuse any juror or jurors from attendance without pay for any portion of the term. The chief judge shall excuse jurors from attendance on days when it is not expected that they will be required. The chief judge may postpone the service of a jur…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1335 Grounds for excusing person from jury service; postponing jury service of student.

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Sec. 1335. (1) The chief judge of the court to which a person is returned as a juror may excuse the person from serving when it appears that the interests of the public or of the individual juror will be materially injured by his or her attendance or the health of the juror or th…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1336 Jurors; excess; discharge; effect.

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Sec. 1336. If the chief judge finds that the number of jurors in attendance is greater than that needed, the chief judge may order the panel or any part of the panel discharged for the balance of its term or excused until a day certain in the term. Any juror discharged, but not e…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1337 Jurors; unqualified or exempt; discharge.

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Sec. 1337. When the court finds that a person in attendance at court as a juror is not qualified to serve as a juror, or is exempt and claims an exemption, the court shall discharge him or her from further attendance and service as a juror.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1338 Jurors; excused; removal of name from list.

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Sec. 1338. When any person is excused from serving on the ground that he or she is exempt by law from serving on juries or is not qualified to serve as a juror, the clerk of the court shall remove the name of that person from the second jury list.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1339 Jurors; service postponed; disposition.

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Sec. 1339. The chief judge shall report to the board the names of all jurors whose service has been postponed to a subsequent time, and the names shall be placed upon the list of jurors selected for that time.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1340 Report of court clerk.

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Sec. 1340. The clerk of the court or the clerk's designee, within 10 days after the close of each term for which jurors have been selected, shall certify as follows: (a) The name and residence of each juror who was excused or discharged by the court, with the reason for the excus…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1341 Additional jurors; procedure.

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Sec. 1341. The chief judge of a court may order additional jurors selected by the board for service during the period of service of a jury panel or a part of a panel. A judge of a court of record may order additional jurors selected by the board for immediate service in a particu…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1342 Jurors; new list; court order.

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Sec. 1342. If the board fails to meet and return the second jury list at the time prescribed or if any list of jurors becomes exhausted or declared illegal, the chief circuit judge may order the board to meet and make a new list of jurors.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1343 Jurors; term of service.

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Sec. 1343. The term of service of petit jurors shall be determined by local court rule but shall not exceed the term of court, unless at the end of this period a juror is serving in connection with an unfinished case, in which event the juror shall continue to serve, in that case…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1344 Juror; mileage and compensation; payment of jury fee where action removed from circuit court to lower court; fraudulent issuance of certificate of attendance as misdemeanor; penalty; "sufficient funds" defined.

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Sec. 1344. (1) A juror must be reimbursed for his or her traveling expenses at a rate, determined by the county board of commissioners, that is not less than 10 cents per mile or, beginning April 1, 2018, not less than 20 cents per mile for traveling from the juror's residence to…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1345 Attempts to influence board; report.

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Sec. 1345. A board member shall report to the prosecuting attorney and the chief circuit judge the name of any person who in any manner seeks by request, hint, or suggestion to influence the board or its members in the selection of any juror.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1346 Acts punishable as contempts.

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Sec. 1346. The following acts are punishable by the circuit court as contempts of court: (a) Failing to answer the questionnaire provided for in section 1313. (b) Failing to appear before the board or a member of the board, without being excused at the time and place notified to …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1347 Jurors; bribery; penalty; embracery; civil liability.

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Sec. 1347. (1) A person selected or summoned as a juror who takes anything to give his or her verdict or receives any gift or gratuity from any party to an action for the trial of which he or she has been selected or summoned is liable to the party aggrieved for actual damages su…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1348 Jurors; threats, discharge, or discipline by employer; requiring additional hours of work; misdemeanor; penalty.

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Sec. 1348. (1) An employer or the employer's agent, who threatens to discharge or discipline or who discharges, disciplines, or causes to be discharged from employment or to be disciplined a person because that person is summoned for jury duty, serves on a jury, or has served on …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1349 Jurors; nonliability for verdict; exception.

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Sec. 1349. No juror may be subject to an action, civil or criminal, on account of any verdict except for corrupt conduct in rendering such verdict in the cases prescribed by law.