(a) All jurors required for the trial of cases in the Court shall be selected by drawing ballots from the jury box in the manner prescribed in this article, and the persons whose names are written on the ballots so drawn shall be returned to serve as jurors.
(b) The Clerk of the Court, at the discretion of the Municipal Judge, shall, at least 15 days before any jury may be wanted, issue a venire fascias for 30 jurors, unless the Court shall order a greater or lesser number, in which event the writ shall issue for such other number. Such writ shall require the attendance of the jurors on such day as the Municipal Judge may order.
(c) The jurors chosen in accordance with division (B) above shall be chosen by the Jury Commissioners. The Clerk of the Court shall issue a summons requiring the Jury Commissioners to attend at the office of the Clerk of the Court on a day named in such summons which shall be not less than five days after the issuance of such summons for the purpose of drawing the ballots for the number of jurors mentioned in such writ.
(d) The writ of venire fascias and summons shall be delivered to the Chief of Police, or other officer acting in lieu of the Chief, who shall serve the summons on the Jury Commissioners, and it shall be the duty of the Jury Commissioners to attend on the day designated in the summons at the office of the Clerk of the Court and, in the presence of the Clerk, to draw the proper number of jurors’ names from the jury box, and to make a list thereof to be delivered to the officers serving the summons.
(e) (1) If either or both of the Jury Commissioners fail to attend as required by such summons, the Clerk of the Court shall appoint a special Jury Commissioner or commissioners, having the qualifications herein required, to act in his or her or their place and stead for the time being, and such jurors shall be drawn by such commissioners; and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court to place the list thereof in the hands of the Chief of Police or other officer authorized to summon them. It shall be the duty of such officer, at least three days before the time when the jurors are required to attend, to summon each person who is drawn to attend the sitting of the Court at the time and place mentioned in the writ, and make due return thereof, and of the summons aforesaid to such Court at the opening thereof.
(2) In addition to any other method provided by law, any person named in the writs of venire fascias or a summons for jurors, by direction of the Court, may be served by the Chief of Police mailing a copy thereof to such person commanding him or her to attend as a juror at a time and place designated therein, which copy shall be registered or certified and deposited in the post office, addressed to such person at his or her usual post office address. The personal receipt of the person so addressed for such registered or certified copy shall be regarded as personal service of such writ or summons upon such person.
(f) When jurors’ names are to be drawn as aforesaid, the ballots in the jury box shall be shaken and mixed together by one of the Jury Commissioners and the other Jury Commissioner shall openly draw therefrom as many ballots (without inspecting the names written on any until the proper number is drawn) as shall be equal to the number of jurors required; and if any person whose name is so drawn is unable by reason of sickness, absence from home, or other cause to attend as a juror, his or her name shall, at the conclusion of such draft, be returned into the box; or if he or she be exempted by law or his or her name has been stricken from the jury list, the ballot shall be destroyed and another shall be drawn in its stead.
(g) When any person is drawn and returned to serve as aforesaid, the Jury Commissioners shall cause to be endorsed on the ballot containing his or her name the word “drawn”, and shall cause it to be placed in another box to be kept for the purpose of custody of the Clerk of the Court, and opened only as hereinafter prescribed; and the date of the draft shall be entered on the list of jurors opposite the name of the person so drawn.
(h) When all the ballots in the jury box have been destroyed or placed in the box for the ballots, marked “drawn”, except such as contain the names of those who, for the reasons aforesaid, are unable to attend, the last mentioned box shall be opened in the presence of the officers attending to draw jurors, and the ballots therein replaced in the jury box, from which drafts shall thereafter again be made in the manner herein prescribed.
(i) If any person duly summoned to attend as a juror shall neglect to attend, without any sufficient excuse, he or she shall pay a fine not exceeding $50, which shall be imposed by the Municipal Court.