407.045. Self-incrimination--person claiming right not subject to criminal prosecution or penalty--procedure. - Missouri Statutes

Self-incrimination--person claiming right not subject to criminalprosecution or penalty--procedure.

407.045. In any civil investigative demand served undersection 407.040, no individual shall be permitted to refuse toanswer any question material to the matter in controversy or torefuse to produce documentary material or testify on the groundthat the testimony or documentary material required of him maytend to incriminate him or subject him to any penalty; but, ifsuch individual asserts his rights against self-incrimination, heshall not be subject to criminal prosecution or to any action fora criminal penalty or forfeiture on account of any transaction,matter or thing concerning which he may testify or producedocumentary material. To avail himself of this section, suchindividual need only make his assertion of his right againstself-incrimination on the record or known to the attorneygeneral.

(L. 1985 H.B. 96, et al.)

Effective 5-31-85