(a) Juror selection and summoning. The jury commissioner shall specify the number of trial jurors needed for each jury panel. The jury commissioner shall then randomly select the specified number of jurors required from the master juror wheel and shall issue a summons to each selected prospective juror either personally or by first class mail addressed to the usual residence or post office box of the prospective juror at least five days prior to the day on which the juror is required to appear. The failure to return undelivered mail by the post office shall be prima facie evidence of service of the summons upon the juror named in the summons.

(b) Contents of juror summons. The juror summons shall state that the anticipated service is that of a trial juror; the beginning date of the juror service; the name, address, hour, and office to which the juror shall report on the first day of service; the fact that a knowing failure to obey the summons without justifiable excuse subjects the offender to the contempt power of the court; and other such information deemed appropriate by the court or the jury commissioner.

(c) Emergency summonses. In order to meet the emergency needs of the court, the jury commissioner by any means of notice, including personal notice or notice by telephone, may at any time summon additional jurors to appear for juror service at a time certain and shall inform the juror of the location of the service. When an emergency need for jurors arises, the normal five-day advance notice provision shall be waived by the court. No process shall issue in the nature of a show cause or contempt proceeding for the failure of an individual to comply with the emergency summoning procedure provided for in this subsection.

(d) Telephone notice. The jury commissioner or the court may permit a trial juror to be available for juror service or continued juror service upon telephone notice. Such a juror shall provide the court with a telephone number at which the juror may be reached with certainty and shall agree to resume juror service, if necessary, not more than one hour after receiving telephone notice.

(e) Length of juror service. Jury service shall not exceed ten business days unless a juror is assigned to or impaneled on an incomplete trial when the ten-day term ends or unless the court orders otherwise. Nothing shall prevent a juror from serving on more than one jury or participating in more than one trial during the term. Jurors awaiting assignment to a trial shall be discharged as early as possible after it has been determined that their services will not be needed subject to recall. (Code 1979, § 25-77)