332.032. Board president or secretary may administer oaths and subpoena witnesses and documents, when--enforcement of subpoenas. - Missouri Statutes

Board president or secretary may administer oaths and subpoenawitnesses and documents, when--enforcement of subpoenas.

332.032. 1. Upon unanimous consent of the members of the board, thepresident or secretary of the board shall administer oaths, subpoenawitnesses, issue subpoenas duces tecum, and require production of documentsand records pertaining to the practice of dentistry. Subpoenas, includingsubpoenas duces tecum, shall be served by a person authorized to servesubpoenas of courts of record. In lieu of requiring attendance of a personto produce original documents in response to a subpoena duces tecum, theboard may require sworn copies of such documents to be filed with it ordelivered to its designated representative.

2. The board may enforce its subpoenas, including subpoena ducestecum, by applying to a circuit court of Cole County, the county of theinvestigation, hearing, or proceeding, or any county where the personresides or may be found, for an order upon any person who shall fail toobey a subpoena to show cause why such subpoena should not be enforced,which such order and a copy of the application therefor shall be servedupon the person in the same manner as a summons in a civil action, and ifthe circuit court shall, after a hearing, determine that the subpoenashould be sustained and enforced, such court shall proceed to enforce thesubpoena in the same manner as though the subpoena had been issued in acivil case in the circuit court.

(L. 2004 S.B. 1122)