Section 34-9-46 Subpoenas and testimony. - Alabama Statutes

Section 34-9-46

Subpoenas and testimony.

In all matters pending before it, the board shall have the power to issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of all necessary papers, books and records, documentary evidence and materials or other evidence. Any person failing or refusing to appear or testify regarding any matter about which he may be lawfully questioned or to produce any papers, books, records, documentary evidence or materials or other evidence in the matter to be heard, after having been required by order of the board or by a subpoena of the board to do so, may, upon application by the board to any circuit judge of the State of Alabama, be ordered to comply therewith; and, upon failure to comply with the order of said circuit judge, the said court may compel obedience by attachment as for contempt as in case of disobedience of a similar order or subpoena issued by said court. The president and secretary-treasurer of the board shall have authority to issue subpoenas, and any board member shall have authority to administer oaths to witnesses, or to take their affirmation. A subpoena or other process of paper may be served upon any person named therein, anywhere within the State of Alabama with the same fees and mileage by any officer authorized to serve subpoenas or such other process or paper in civil actions, in the same manner as is prescribed by law for subpoenas issued out of the circuit courts of this state, said fees and mileage and other costs to be paid as the board directs.

(Acts 1959, No. 100, p. 569, §32.)