Justice COATS
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The People petitioned for review of the court of appeals' judgment reversing White's convictions of sexual assault on a child, incest, and possession of marijuana. At trial, White moved for a mistrial on the grounds that one of the jurors was not a resident of Teller County. The trial court denied the motion, finding there to be sufficient evidence of residency. Because the record indicated that the juror had recently moved into his sister's apartment in Colorado Springs but failed to indicate an intent to return to reside in Teller County within twelve months, the court of appeals concluded that the trial court's finding of residency was unsupported by the record.
Because the court of appeals misconstrued the controlling statute and under a proper construction the juror's continued residence in Teller County was adequately evidenced in the record, the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed and the case is remanded with directions to reinstate the defendant's convictions.
I.
David W. White was convicted of sexual assault on a child, incest, and possession of marijuana, all arising out of a late-night sexual encounter with his daughter. After the jury had been empanelled in White's trial in Teller County, one of the jurors requested a discount at a local hotel, indicating that he had just moved to Colorado Springs, which prompted a motion for mistrial. The following morning, prior to opening statements, the juror was questioned regarding his residency.
[1123]*1123The juror, who was then twenty-four years old, explained that despite receiving a jury summons at his father's home in Teller County, where he was living at the time, he subsequently moved to El Paso County to live with his sister; that he had been living in El Paso County for two weeks and intended to remain there for another eighteen to twenty-four months to work and complete a vocational hazmat training program organized by his employer; and that he had intermittently lived with his father in Teller County for the past nine years. On further inquiry by the prosecution, he also indicated that although his father was in the process of converting his room to a guest room, the details of which were still being worked out, he would be permitted to move back; that he left some of his furniture and other personalty at his father's home; that "mail and everything along those lines" was being delivered to his father's home; and that while he had not yet formally applied, his ultimate career plan was to return to Teller County and become a firefighter there. Finally, the juror made clear that he would like to live in Teller County, where his family was located, but that he had no plans to return there in the next year-and-a-half or two.
After entertaining the arguments of counsel, the trial court found the juror qualified and denied the motion for mistrial. The trial court relied largely on the transitional stage of life in which the juror found himself and the temporary nature of his presence in Colorado Springs for work and training. The court of appeals reversed, concluding that even if he otherwise met the statutory requirements for residency, the juror's recent move outside the county with no intention of returning during the succeeding twelve months disqualified him from service.
The People petitioned for a writ of certio-rari.
IL.
Like all criminal defendants in Colorado, White was constitutionally entitled to a trial "by an impartial jury of the county or district in which the offense [was] alleged to have been committed." Colo. Const., art. II, § 16. As we have noted elsewhere, "(tlhe essential features of a jury trial lie in interposing between the accused and the accuser the common sense judgment of lay representatives of the community 'and in the community participation and shared responsibility that results from that group's determination of guilt or innocence.'" Aurora v. Rhodes, 689 P2d 603, 610 (Colo.1984) (quoting Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78, 100, 90 S.Ct. 1893, 26 L.Ed.2d 446 (1979)). Jury summoning and selection procedures must therefore adequately provide the accused with a fair opportunity for obtaining a representative cross section of the community on the jury. Id. Although the legislature has not sought to determine the limits of the term "district" as it appears in Article II, Section 16 of the Colorado Constitution, see id. (finding municipal ordinance in multi-county municipality permitting trial of ordinance violations by jurors from anywhere within city limits to nevertheless fall within constitutional limitations); cf. Wafai v. People, 750 P.2d 37, 44-47 (Colo.1988) (noting venue requirement for trial within county of commission, in the absence of any separate legislative definition of "district"), it has directly spoken to the meaning of a jury "of the county" in which the offense was allegedly committed.
Section 105 of the Uniform Jury Selection and Service Act, §§ 183-71-101 to -145, C.R.S. (2010) (UJSSA), initially defines qualification for jury service in terms of citizenship and either residency or habitation in a particular county, and it then provides a number of specific conditions that will nevertheless disqualify an otherwise qualified prospective juror.1 The first subsection of the [1124]*1124statute specifies that a citizen of the United States who either "resides" in a particular county or who "lives in such county more than fifty percent of the time" shall be qualified to serve as a juror in that county. § 183-71-105(1). The second subsection, however, indicates that such an otherwise qualified prospective juror will be disqualified from service if, among other things, he resides outside the county and has no intention of returning within the succeeding twelve months. § 18-71-105(2)(e).
Although the UJSSA does not more expressly define the term "resides," "residence," or "residency," it does direct the state court administrator to create a "master juror list" of prospective jurors using for its sources lists of "residents" of the state, most particularly a voter registration list for each county in the state from the secretary of state and licensed driver lists from the department of revenue, matched against the department's most recent address of the individual for income tax purposes. See § 183-71-107. Unlike the UJSSA, the statutory scheme for voter registration spells out in great detail the standard for determining residence within a county, and it enumerates various factors of evidentiary significance. See §§ 1-2-1022, -103, CRS. (2010) ef. § 31-10-201, C.R.S. (2010) (Municipal Election Code). Furthermore, it mandates that the residence given for voting purposes and those given for motor vehicle registration and for state income tax purposes must all be the same. See § 1-2-102(1)(c).
A person's residence for voting, motor vehicle, and income tax purposes is statutorily defined as his "principal or primary home or place of abode," which in turn is defined as "that home or place in which a person's habitation is fixed and to which that person, whenever absent, has the present intention of returning after a departure or absence, regardless of the duration of the absence." § 1-2-102(1)(a)(I).
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Justice COATS
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
The People petitioned for review of the court of appeals' judgment reversing White's convictions of sexual assault on a child, incest, and possession of marijuana. At trial, White moved for a mistrial on the grounds that one of the jurors was not a resident of Teller County. The trial court denied the motion, finding there to be sufficient evidence of residency. Because the record indicated that the juror had recently moved into his sister's apartment in Colorado Springs but failed to indicate an intent to return to reside in Teller County within twelve months, the court of appeals concluded that the trial court's finding of residency was unsupported by the record.
Because the court of appeals misconstrued the controlling statute and under a proper construction the juror's continued residence in Teller County was adequately evidenced in the record, the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed and the case is remanded with directions to reinstate the defendant's convictions.
I.
David W. White was convicted of sexual assault on a child, incest, and possession of marijuana, all arising out of a late-night sexual encounter with his daughter. After the jury had been empanelled in White's trial in Teller County, one of the jurors requested a discount at a local hotel, indicating that he had just moved to Colorado Springs, which prompted a motion for mistrial. The following morning, prior to opening statements, the juror was questioned regarding his residency.
[1123]*1123The juror, who was then twenty-four years old, explained that despite receiving a jury summons at his father's home in Teller County, where he was living at the time, he subsequently moved to El Paso County to live with his sister; that he had been living in El Paso County for two weeks and intended to remain there for another eighteen to twenty-four months to work and complete a vocational hazmat training program organized by his employer; and that he had intermittently lived with his father in Teller County for the past nine years. On further inquiry by the prosecution, he also indicated that although his father was in the process of converting his room to a guest room, the details of which were still being worked out, he would be permitted to move back; that he left some of his furniture and other personalty at his father's home; that "mail and everything along those lines" was being delivered to his father's home; and that while he had not yet formally applied, his ultimate career plan was to return to Teller County and become a firefighter there. Finally, the juror made clear that he would like to live in Teller County, where his family was located, but that he had no plans to return there in the next year-and-a-half or two.
After entertaining the arguments of counsel, the trial court found the juror qualified and denied the motion for mistrial. The trial court relied largely on the transitional stage of life in which the juror found himself and the temporary nature of his presence in Colorado Springs for work and training. The court of appeals reversed, concluding that even if he otherwise met the statutory requirements for residency, the juror's recent move outside the county with no intention of returning during the succeeding twelve months disqualified him from service.
The People petitioned for a writ of certio-rari.
IL.
Like all criminal defendants in Colorado, White was constitutionally entitled to a trial "by an impartial jury of the county or district in which the offense [was] alleged to have been committed." Colo. Const., art. II, § 16. As we have noted elsewhere, "(tlhe essential features of a jury trial lie in interposing between the accused and the accuser the common sense judgment of lay representatives of the community 'and in the community participation and shared responsibility that results from that group's determination of guilt or innocence.'" Aurora v. Rhodes, 689 P2d 603, 610 (Colo.1984) (quoting Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78, 100, 90 S.Ct. 1893, 26 L.Ed.2d 446 (1979)). Jury summoning and selection procedures must therefore adequately provide the accused with a fair opportunity for obtaining a representative cross section of the community on the jury. Id. Although the legislature has not sought to determine the limits of the term "district" as it appears in Article II, Section 16 of the Colorado Constitution, see id. (finding municipal ordinance in multi-county municipality permitting trial of ordinance violations by jurors from anywhere within city limits to nevertheless fall within constitutional limitations); cf. Wafai v. People, 750 P.2d 37, 44-47 (Colo.1988) (noting venue requirement for trial within county of commission, in the absence of any separate legislative definition of "district"), it has directly spoken to the meaning of a jury "of the county" in which the offense was allegedly committed.
Section 105 of the Uniform Jury Selection and Service Act, §§ 183-71-101 to -145, C.R.S. (2010) (UJSSA), initially defines qualification for jury service in terms of citizenship and either residency or habitation in a particular county, and it then provides a number of specific conditions that will nevertheless disqualify an otherwise qualified prospective juror.1 The first subsection of the [1124]*1124statute specifies that a citizen of the United States who either "resides" in a particular county or who "lives in such county more than fifty percent of the time" shall be qualified to serve as a juror in that county. § 183-71-105(1). The second subsection, however, indicates that such an otherwise qualified prospective juror will be disqualified from service if, among other things, he resides outside the county and has no intention of returning within the succeeding twelve months. § 18-71-105(2)(e).
Although the UJSSA does not more expressly define the term "resides," "residence," or "residency," it does direct the state court administrator to create a "master juror list" of prospective jurors using for its sources lists of "residents" of the state, most particularly a voter registration list for each county in the state from the secretary of state and licensed driver lists from the department of revenue, matched against the department's most recent address of the individual for income tax purposes. See § 183-71-107. Unlike the UJSSA, the statutory scheme for voter registration spells out in great detail the standard for determining residence within a county, and it enumerates various factors of evidentiary significance. See §§ 1-2-1022, -103, CRS. (2010) ef. § 31-10-201, C.R.S. (2010) (Municipal Election Code). Furthermore, it mandates that the residence given for voting purposes and those given for motor vehicle registration and for state income tax purposes must all be the same. See § 1-2-102(1)(c).
A person's residence for voting, motor vehicle, and income tax purposes is statutorily defined as his "principal or primary home or place of abode," which in turn is defined as "that home or place in which a person's habitation is fixed and to which that person, whenever absent, has the present intention of returning after a departure or absence, regardless of the duration of the absence." § 1-2-102(1)(a)(I). Factors to be taken into account in determining a person's principal or primary place of abode include "business pursuits, employment, income sources, residence for income or other tax purposes, age, marital status, residence of parents, spouse, and children, if any, leaseholds, situs of personal and real property, existence of any other residences and the amount of time spent at each residence, and motor vehicle registration." § 1-2-102(1)(b). Significantly, for these purposes no person can be considered to have gained a residence in any county while retaining a home or domicile elsewhere; and no person can gain a residence by reason of his presence, or lose it by reason of his absence, while a student at an institution of higher education. §§ 1-2-102(1)(d), ~108(1).
IIL.
Within constitutional limitations, the legislature determines qualifications for jury service. As is the case with statutes generally, the proper interpretation of any applicable juror qualification statutes must therefore be determined according to legislative intent, as expressed in the language of the statutes themselves. People v. Owens, 228 P.3d 969, 972 (Colo.2010). Where statutory language is susceptible of more than one reasonable interpretation, and is therefore ambiguous, a body of accepted intrinsic and extrinsic aids to construction may be applied to determine the particular reasonable interpretation embodying legislative intent. Holcomb v. Jan-Pro Cleaning Sys., 172 P.3d 888, 890 (Colo.2007). Although a term may have a number of different meanings in the abstract, or standing alone, its intended meaning in a specific context will often become apparent from the context, or the greater statutory scheme, in which it is used. Curious Theatre Co. v. Colo. Dep't. of Pub. Health and Env't, 220 P.3d 544, 549 (Colo.2009); Walgreen Co. v. Charnes, 819 P.2d 1039, 1043 n. 6, 1046 (Colo.1991). Similarly, the historical development of a statutory scheme can often shed light on the purposes behind specific amendments. Frank M. Hall & Co. v. Newsom, 125 P.3d 444, 448 (Colo.2005).
[1125]*1125Throughout most of this state's history, jury service has been limited to residents of the county in which a crime was alleged to have been committed. E.g., C.R.S.1963, § 78-1-2. In 1989, along with the repeal and reenactment of the UJSSA to accommodate the so-called "one day, one trial" approach adopted for this jurisdiction, the legislature eliminated non-residence as a disqualifying condition and instead permitted, subject to certain exceptions, any person to serve who is a United States citizen and resides in the county or lives in the county more than fifty percent of the time. § 18-71-105(1). Among the statutory exceptions or enumerated conditions disqualifying an otherwise qualified person, the legislature included having a "[rlesidence outside the county with no intention of returning within twelve months." § 18-71-105(2)(e).
Despite the dearth of published appellate decisions concerning juror qualifications, the meaning and proof of "residence" in related contexts had plagued the courts of this jurisdiction for years. See Theobald v. Byrns, 195 Colo. 330, 333, 579 P.2d 609, 610-11 (1978). The current princeipal-or-primary-home test for voting purposes, largely adopted by the legislature in 1979 and now expressly made applicable to motor vehicle and income tax matters as well, however, clearly resolves this ambiguity in favor of an objectively determined "legal residence" or domicile. See Gordon v. Blackburn, 618 P.2d 668, 671 (Colo.1980) (interpreting section 1-2-102's counterpart for municipal elections, section 31-10-201). Apart from expressly designating voter registration, driver's license, and income tax lists as sources of prospective jurors, the very structure of the UJSSA, juxtaposing "resid[ing]" in the county, on the one hand, and "liv{ing]" in the county for a specified period, on the other, as alternate ways of satisfying the vicinage or proximity requirement, rather than conjoining them as joint prerequisites, also strongly implies that the term "resides" is used in the same domiciliary sense.
A person is therefore domiciled, or "resides," in a given county within the meaning of the UJSSA if his principal or primary home or place of abode-the home or place in which his habitation is fixed and to which he has the present intention of returning after a departure or absence, regardless of the duration of the absence-is situated there. After the 1989 amendments, however, that person is also qualified to serve as a juror if he lives in the county more than fifty percent of the time, subject to one important qualification. Presumably because the condition of living somewhere more than fifty percent of the time could reasonably be understood to include any period of absence from that dwelling not exceeding the length of time a prospective juror had previously been living there, a person is nevertheless expressly disqualified from jury service if he both absents himself with no intention of returning to live in the county within twelve months and maintains his legal residence outside the county. While the exception of subsection 105(2)(e) therefore places a limitation on the period of time a person can be physically absent and still be considered to live in the county more than fifty percent of the time, it in no way purports to alter the meaning of residency.
Beyond these syntactical considerations, statutory definitions, and interlocking statutory schemes, interpreting the existing juror qualification statute as providing for broad-based juror eligibility on the basis of either majority presence in the county or maintaining a domicile there comports with both the realities of our contemporary mobile culture and the extremely minimal nature of constitutional vicinage requirements. Ensuring that jury verdicts result from the common sense judgment of lay representatives of the community and that an accused is provided with a fair opportunity for obtaining a representative cross section of the community on the jury, see Rhodes, 689 P.2d at 610, is in no way furthered by hyper-restrictive residency requirements. Especially in a state with a substantial military presence, numerous institutions of higher education, and widespread ownership of dwellings in more than one county by a single person, it would not be unnatural or unexpected for the legislature to require jury service of those who live in the county most of time, as well as those who maintain a domicile, or legal resi-[1126]*1126denee, there. As long as the scheme permits reasonable flexibility in excusing or deferring service for those in either category currently absent from the area, less restrictive residency requirements can easily be understood as a rational policy choice and advantageous for all concerned.2
While the juror in this case may not have actually qualified as a student at an institution of higher education, his age and unsettled stage of both education and employment point away from any intent to change his domicile by fixing his place of habitation elsewhere. It seems clear that he had not previously established a domicile other than his father's home, and that since moving in with his sister in recent weeks, he had not moved his furniture or changed his mailing address from his father's home. Not only did the juror express a subjective intent to return to Teller County where his family lived, if and when that became a viable option, but there was no evidence to indicate that during the short time of his absence from the county, he had taken any steps, such as changing the address on his vehicle registration and driver's license, objectively evidencing a change in his legal residence.
The court of appeals found disposi-tive the fact that the juror had moved from the county and intended to remain outside the county until he completed his hazmat training, some eighteen to twenty-four months later. As we have construed the statute, the disqualification articulated at seetion 183-71-105(2)(e), applies only to persons who both absent themselves from the county without any present intention to return within twelve months and also establish a domicile outside the county. Accord People v. Williams, 827 P.2d 612, 613-14 (Colo.App. 1992). A present intention to return, regardless of the duration of any absence, is the critical factor establishing that a person's former dwelling remains his principal or primary home, or legal residence, despite his having temporarily moved from it. In the absence of a determination that the juror was no longer domiciled in Teller county, the court of appeals therefore erred in relying on the exception at subsection 105(2)(e).
Because the record in this case is adequate for us to determine that the juror continued to maintain a domicile at his father's home in Teller County, it is unnecessary for us to consider the People's claim that the defendant waived any challenge to his credentials by not asserting it before the jury was em-panelled.
IV.
Because the court of appeals misconstrued the controlling statute and under a proper construction the juror's continued residence in Teller County was adequately evidenced in the record, the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed and the case is remanded with directions to reinstate the defendant's convictions.
Justice MARTINEZ dissents, and Justice BENDER joins in the dissent.