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SECTION 13
Right to serve on juries
Civil Rights (CVR) CHAPTER 6, ARTICLE 2
§ 13. Right to serve on juries. No citizen of the state possessing all
other qualifications which are or may be required or prescribed by law,
shall be disqualified to serve as a grand or petit juror in any court of
this state on account of race, creed, color, national origin or sex, and
any person charged with any duty in the selection or summoning of jurors
who shall exclude or fail to summon any citizen for any of the causes
aforesaid shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty days, nor more
than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment.