3-15-501. Order directing that trial jury be drawn and summoned. (1) At least once each year in each county, when a civil or criminal case has been at issue and ready for trial for more than 6 months and the plaintiff or defendant in such case has requested a jury trial, or whenever the business of a district court requires the attendance of a trial jury for the trial of civil or criminal cases and no jury is in attendance, the court must make an order directing a trial jury to be drawn and summoned to attend before said court. Such order must specify the number of jurors to be drawn. The time at which the jurors are required to attend must be at the discretion of the court.
     (2) The court may direct that such causes, either criminal or civil, in which a jury may be required or in which a jury may have been demanded be continued and fixed for trial when a jury shall be in attendance.
     (3) A district court may draw more than one trial jury in a given year if, in the opinion of the judge or judges thereof, the service of the trial jury in attendance has been unduly demanding, and in such case the trial jury in attendance may be excused by the court from further jury duty in that year.
     (4) The judge or judges of a district or the judge of a department may designate that jury service in his or their district or department is on a "one-day or one-trial" basis; that is, each individual juror is excused for the rest of the year after having attended for 1 day and not having been selected to serve at the trial of a particular cause or after having completed service at such a trial.
     (5) If the number of unexcused jurors is not sufficient to meet current requirements at any time, jurors excused under subsection (3) or (4) may be required to serve.

     History: En. Sec. 260, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 7, L. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6348, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8902, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 214; re-en. Sec. 8902, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 62, L. 1949; R.C.M. 1947, 93-1501; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 313, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 379, L. 1983.