Chapter 297. To amend section 284 of the Judicial Code of the United States
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CHAP. 297.— An Act To amend section 284 of the Judicial Code of the United States. February 25, 1931.[[S. 4425](/us/bill/71/s/4425).][[Public, No. 728](/us/pl/71/728).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 284 Judicial Code, amendment.Vol. 36, p. 1165.[U. S. C., p. 912](/us/usc/912).of the Judicial Code (U, S. C., title 28, sec. 421) be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 284. No grand jury shall be summoned to attend any district Summoning of grand Juries.court unless the judge thereof, in his own discretion or upon a notification by the district attorney that such jury will be needed, orders a venire to issue therefor. If the United States attorney for any district which has a city or borough containing at least three Second jury In large cities.hundred thousand inhabitants shall certify in writing to the district judge or the senior district judge of the district that the exigencies of the public service require it, the judge may, in his discretion, also order a venire to issue, for a second grand jury: *Provided, however*, *Proviso.*Third jury, southern district of Now York.That if the United States attorney for the southern district of New York shall certify in writing to the senior district judge of said district that the exigencies of the public service require it, said judge may, in his discretion, also order a venire to issue for a third grand Additional, by order of court.jury.
And said court may in term order a grand jury to be summoned at such time, and to serve such time as it may direct, when1418Next succeeding term.ever, in its judgment, it may be proper to do so. And the district judge or the senior district judge, as the case may be, may, upon request of the district attorney or of the grand jury or on his own motion, by order authorize any grand jury to continue to sit during the term succeeding the term at which such request is made, solely to finish investigations begun but not finished by such grand jury:Not to sit more than three terms.Imprisonment before indictment, etc., not extended. *Provided, however*, That no grand jury shall be permitted to sit in all during more than three terms.
But nothing herein shall operate to extend beyond the time permitted by law the imprisonment before indictment found of a person accused of a crime or offense, or the time during which a person so accused may be held under recognizance before indictment found.” " Approved, February 25, 1931.