§ 7A-312. Uniform fees for jurors; meals. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 7A‑312.  Uniform feesfor jurors; meals.

(a)        A juror in theGeneral Court of Justice including a petit juror, or a coroner's juror, butexcluding a grand juror, shall receive twelve dollars ($12.00) for the firstday of service and twenty dollars ($20.00) per day afterwards, except that ifany person serves as a juror for more than five days in any 24‑monthperiod, the juror shall receive forty dollars ($40.00) per day for each day ofservice in excess of five days. A grand juror shall receive twenty dollars($20.00) per day. A juror required to remain overnight at the site of the trialshall be furnished adequate accommodations and subsistence. If required by thepresiding judge to remain in a body during the trial of a case, meals shall befurnished the jurors during the period of sequestration. Jurors from out of thecounty summoned to sit on a special venire shall receive mileage at the samerate as State employees.

(b)        Notwithstandingsubsection (a) of this section, the Administrative Office of the Courts mayselect a judicial district to operate a pilot program in which a juror maywaive payment of the per diem fees provided for in that subsection. A jurorwaiving the fee may designate that the fee be used for any of the followingservices, if such services are provided in the district: (i) client treatmentand service programs associated with a drug treatment or DWI treatment courtprogram; (ii) courthouse self‑help centers; (iii) courthouse child carecenters; (iv) legal aid programs operated by a nonprofit corporation operatingwithin the district; and (v) the Crime Victims Compensation Fund. If no suchservices are provided within the district, then waived fees are transferred tothe Crime Victims Compensation Fund. (1965, c. 310, s. 1; 1967, c. 1169; 1969, c. 1190, s.32; 1971, c. 377, s. 26; 1973, c. 503, s. 19; 1979, c. 985; 1983, c. 881, ss.2, 3; 1989, c. 646, s. 2; 1995, c. 324, ss. 21.1(a), (c); 2006‑66, s.14.17; 2006‑187, s. 9; 2007‑393, s. 16.)