37-24-17. Judicial enforcement of notice, demand or subpoena. Any person refusing to obey such notice, demand, or subpoena, or to testify when subpoenaed, or to bring evidence required to be brought by said notice, demand, or subpoena, may be certified to the circuit court nearest to the point where the notice, demand, or subpoena requires appearance, and the said circuit court may then enforce compliance to said notice, demand, or subpoena by order, the noncompliance with which shall be treated the same as a contempt of said court.
Source: SL 1971, ch 218, § 13.