2023 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 51 - Courts
Chapter 884 - Jurors
Section 51-220. - *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Number of jurors for each town.
The number of jurors to be chosen from each town shall be equal to a percentage of the town's population rounded off to the nearest whole number, such percentage to be determined by the Jury Administrator. Such population figures shall derive from the last published census of the United States government.
(1949 Rev., S. 7928; 1949, S.A. 27; 1949, 1951, S. 1368b; 1953, S. 3176d; 1963, P.A. 505; 1967, P.A. 695, S. 1; P.A. 73-68; P.A. 82-248, S. 123; 82-307, S. 2, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-5, S. 4, 18; P.A. 84-393, S. 4, 18, 20; P.A. 94-169, S. 6, 20.)
*Note: On and after July 1, 2023, this section, as amended by section 2 of public act 21-170, is to read as follows:
“Sec. 51-220. Number of jurors for each town. (a) The number of jurors to be chosen from each town shall be equal to a percentage of the town's population rounded off to the nearest whole number, such percentage to be determined by the Jury Administrator in accordance with the provisions of this section and section 51-220a. The number of jurors chosen from each town shall reflect the proportional representation of the population of each town within the judicial district. The Jury Administrator shall calculate such percentage by determining each town's proportional share of the population of the judicial district and dividing that proportional share by the town's yield ratio. A town's yield ratio shall be calculated by dividing the number of jurors from such town who, when summoned during the previous court year, complied with the summons to appear for jury service, by the product that results when the town's proportional share of the population of the judicial district is multiplied by the total number of jurors summoned in the judicial district in the previous court year. For purposes of this subsection, “court year” means a one-year period beginning on September first and ending on August thirty-first of the following year.
(b) The Jury Administrator shall derive population figures from the most recent decennial census.”
(1949 Rev., S. 7928; 1949, S.A. 27; 1949, 1951, S. 1368b; 1953, S. 3176d; 1963, P.A. 505; 1967, P.A. 695, S. 1; P.A. 73-68; P.A. 82-248, S. 123; 82-307, S. 2, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-5, S. 4, 18; P.A. 84-393, S. 4, 18, 20; P.A. 94-169, S. 6, 20; P.A. 21-170, S. 2.)
History: 1963 act increased lowest population bracket by 500 and increased number of jurors in each category; 1967 act increased number in each category and added exclusion of institutional patients from population count; P.A. 73-68 added category consisting of towns with population of less than 750; P.A. 82-248 inserted Subsec. indicators; P.A. 82-307 deleted provisions which set forth the number of jurors for each town as from 15 to 1,012 depending on the relative population of the town and added provisions which established the number of jurors for a town as 1.5% of the town's population, applicable with respect to summoning of jurors on or after September 1, 1983; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-5, effective July 1, 1985, and applicable to summoning of jurors for jury duty on and after September 1, 1986, replaced provision re determination of number of jurors with provision that such number be equal to a percentage of the town's population, such percentage to be determined by the jury administrator, and deleted Subsec. (b) re exclusion of patients of state institutions from population of town for purposes of section; P.A. 84-393 repealed amendments enacted by June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-5 and amended Subsec. (a), making it applicable to jurors selected and summoned to serve on or before August 31, 1986, and added Subsec. (b) re number of jurors to be chosen from each town, applicable to jurors selected and summoned to serve on or after September 1, 1986; P.A. 94-169 eliminated obsolete provisions, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 21-170 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same to add provisions re proportional representation of population of each town within the judicial district and calculation method and moved provision re use of census population figures and designated same as Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2023.
