Title 730, JUSTICE COURTS AND MUNICIPAL COURTS

Sec. 18. This act shall not be construed to repeal the provisions of any other law in effect in a particular city providing a method of drawing juries, but the justice or judge conducting a trial may in any case order a jury drawn according to the provisions of this act or in any…

Sec. 19. This act shall not go into effect in any city to which it applies unless the judge or judges, or justice or justices, notify the city clerk and city assessor or assessing officer in writing to prepare and file lists of names as is provided for herein. The first list shal…

Sec. 1. In addition to such jurisdiction as previously conferred upon them, municipal courts having a salaried judge or judges shall have original jurisdiction of all prosecutions and proceedings in behalf of the people of this state for all misdemeanors and offenses arising unde…

Sec. 1. The following acts and parts of acts are repealed: YEAR OF ACT PUBLIC ACT NUMBER COMPILED LAWS SECTIONS 1911 299 730.1 to 730.30 1933 269 730.101 to 730.159 1911 171 730.201 to 730.204 1947 41 730.301 to 730.302 1947 109 730.321 to 730.328 1947 103 730.351 to 730.354 1961…

Sec. 1. Any city may by charter or ordinance establish terms for the trial of jury cases in the justice court of such city, and may provide that jury cases may be set for trial upon 1 or more certain days of each month or as soon thereafter as such trial can be reached. Any city …

Sec. 2. A board of jury commissioners is hereby created for each city adopting the provisions hereof, which shall consist of the city treasurer, the city clerk and the city assessor, or if more than 1 city assessor then such one as shall be designated by a majority of the assesso…

Sec. 3. The said board shall within 15 days after the adoption of this act in any city and during the month of November of every year thereafter, make and file with the clerk of the justice court a list of persons to serve for the succeeding calendar year as justice court jurors …

Sec. 4. The said board in making such selection shall file the names of such only as are not exempt from serving on juries, who are in possession of their natural faculties, not infirm or decrepit, of good character, of approved integrity, of sound judgment, and well informed and…

Sec. 5. In making such selection said board shall avoid, as far as practicable, selecting any of the persons who were actually drawn and who served as jurors on any regular justice court panel during the preceding year.

Sec. 6. Such list of jurors shall be made in duplicate and 1 copy filed in the office of the city clerk and the other copy filed in the office of the clerk of the justice court. Upon receiving and filing such list, the clerk of the justice court shall write down the names contain…

Sec. 7. The persons whose names shall be returned as jurors shall serve as jurors for 1 year and until other lists shall be returned and filed.

Sec. 8. At least 10 days and not more than 20 days before the holding of any term for the trial of jury cases in the justice court in any such city, the clerk of the justice court shall draw the names of 10 persons and any additional number that may be ordered by the justices of …

Sec. 9. Such drawing shall be made in the presence of at least 1 of the justices of the peace and the chief of police, or in the event of his absence or inability to attend, then in the presence of the officer at the time being in command of the police department of the city. The…

Sec. 10. The clerk of the justice court shall conduct such drawing as follows: (a) He shall place in a box prepared for that purpose all of the names contained in the list of jurors returned by the board of jury commissioners, except the names of those persons who have been previ…

Sec. 11. The clerk of the justice court shall deliver to 1 of the constables, or in their absence, to a deputy sheriff, a venire containing the names and places of residence of the several jurors and specify for what term of court said jurors were drawn. The constable or deputy s…

Sec. 12. All persons who are exempt from service on juries in the circuit courts of this state shall be exempt from service on juries in justice courts of cities adopting this act. Likewise all persons who are entitled to be excused from service on juries in circuit courts in thi…

Sec. 13. Each justice court juror shall be entitled to receive $6.00 for each day's attendance, and $3.00 for each half day's attendance upon any term of justice court, to be paid out of the city treasury of the city on the certificate or order of the clerk of the justice court: …

Sec. 14. When any cause shall become at issue, any party thereto shall be entitled to a jury trial by filing with the justice of the peace a demand for a jury, and in case said cause be a civil action, by depositing with the clerk of the justice court the sum of 12 dollars, which…

Sec. 15. At each jury term all jury cases set for trial at said term shall be tried in the order in which they become at issue unless for good cause shown a continuance shall be granted until the next term of court or until a subsequent date during the same term. The jurors impan…

Sec. 16. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent any justice of the peace, when no jury is in attendance, in his discretion and in order to avoid hardship, from delay, from ordering a jury impaneled in accordance with the method provided by law to secure a jury in trials befo…

Sec. 17. As the cases shall be called for trial during each jury term, each jury shall consist of 6 persons and shall be drawn from the list of jurors impaneled for the term in the manner provided by the general laws of the state for drawing juries in the circuit court, as near a…

Sec. 18. Any person who shall fail to attend and continue in attendance at the justice court room in the city as a juror for the term for which he or she shall have been selected and duly summoned, as herein provided, without the consent of the justice presiding on that particula…

Sec. 19. If in any city adopting this act there is more than 1 justice of the peace, such city may by charter or ordinance provide for the selection of a presiding justice by the justices of the peace of such city, and in such case the action of the presiding justice as to any ma…

Sec. 20. It shall be the duty of said justices to instruct the jury in all cases as to the law applicable to the case, which instruction shall be received by the jury as the law of such case. Either party may present written requests to charge to the justice, who shall present th…

Sec. 21. The justices shall have the same power to direct a verdict for either party as is had by judges of circuit courts of this state in similar cases.