The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 4 V.S.A. § 953)
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§ 953. Sources of names
(a) The clerk, in order to ascertain names of persons eligible as jurors, may consult
the latest census enumeration; the latest published city, town, or village telephone
or other directory; the listers’ records; the elections records; and any other general
source of names.
(b) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the Court Administrator may obtain the names,
addresses, and dates of birth of persons that are contained in the records of the
Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Labor, the Department of Taxes, the
Department of Health, and the Department for Children and Families. The Court Administrator
may also obtain the names of voters from the Secretary of State. After the names have
been obtained, the Court Administrator shall compile them and provide the names, addresses,
and dates of birth to the clerk in a form that will not reveal the source of the names.
The clerk shall include the names provided by the Court Administrator in the list
of potential jurors.
(c) There shall be continuous research for persons qualified and liable for jury service,
in order to obtain as many prospective jurors as necessary and in order to limit as
many prospective jurors as necessary and in order to limit as much as possible repetition
of jury service.
(d) No person’s name shall be placed on venire to serve in any State court of the State
of Vermont more than once in any two-year period.
(e) All public officers shall, on request, furnish the clerk or the Court Administrator
without charge any information it may require to enable it to select eligible persons,
ascertain their qualifications, or determine the number needed. (Added 1967, No. 284 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2003, No. 146 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2005; 2005, No. 103 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 5, 2006; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 10; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 47.)