(a) A Jury Commission shall be established in the City to manage the jury selection process under the supervision and control of the Municipal Court. The Jury Commission shall be composed of the Clerk of the Municipal Court and two jury commissioners appointed for a term of four years by the Municipal Judge. The terms of office for commissioners shall commence upon appointment. Those jury commissioners appointed by the Municipal Judge in office when this section takes effect shall continue in office, unless removed, until the expiration of their respective terms of office.
No jury commissioner, after having served four years, shall be eligible to serve a successive additional term. The jury commissioners must be citizens of the United States, residents of the City and well known members of opposing political parties of the City; the chairman of a political party shall be ineligible for appointment. The jury commissioners shall receive as compensation for their services, while necessarily employed, an amount to be fixed by the Municipal Judge in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
(b) Jury commissioners may be removed from office by the Municipal Judge, for official misconduct, incompetency, habitual drunkenness, neglect of duty or gross immorality. Vacancies caused by death, resignation or otherwise shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointments.
(c) Before entering upon the discharge of duties, a jury commissioner shall take and subscribe to an oath to the following effect:
State of West Virginia,
County of , to wit:
I, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this State and will faithfully discharge the duties of jury commissioner to the best of my skill and judgment and that I will not place any person upon the jury list in violation of law.
(Ord. 1556. Passed 11-20-86.)