SECTIONS 40840-40844 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 40840-40844

40840. Whenever the members of a hearing board conducting any
hearing deem it necessary to examine any person as a witness at the
hearing, the chairman of the hearing board shall issue a subpoena, in
proper form, commanding such person to appear before it at a time
and place specified to be examined as a witness. The subpoena may
require such person to produce all books, papers, and documents in
his possession, or under his control, material to the hearing.

40841. A subpoena to appear before a hearing board shall be served
in the same manner as a subpoena in a civil action.

40842. Whenever any person duly subpoenaed to appear and give
evidence, or to produce any books and papers, before a hearing board
neglects or refuses to appear, or to produce any books and papers, as
required by the subpoena, or refuses to testify or to answer any
question which the hearing board decides is proper and pertinent, he
shall be deemed in contempt, and the hearing board shall report the
fact to the superior court of the county in which the hearing is
held.

40843. Upon receipt of a report submitted pursuant to Section
40842, the superior court shall proceed as specified in Section
11455.20 of the Government Code.

40844. On the return of the attachment and the production of the
body of the defendant, the superior court has jurisdiction of the
matter. The person charged may purge himself of the contempt in the
same way, and the same proceeding shall be had, and the same
penalties may be imposed, and the same punishment inflicted as in the
case of a witness subpoenaed to appear and give evidence on the
trial of a civil cause before a superior court.