FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 277
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR JACOB.
Read 1st time January 16, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1043S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 494.430, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to jury duty.
Section A.Section 494.430, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 494.430, to read as follows:
494.430.Upon timely application to the court, the following persons shall be excused from service as a petit or grand juror:
(1)Any person actually performing the duties of a clergyman;
(2)Any person who has served on a state or federal petit or grand jury within the preceding year;
(3)Any person whose absence from his regular place of employment would, in the judgment of the court, tend materially and adversely to affect the public safety, health, welfare or interest;
(4)Any person upon whom service as a juror would in the judgment of the court impose an extreme hardship;
(5)Any person licensed to engage in and actively engaged in the practice of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, dentistry, optometry, or pharmacy.