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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 22 — Tying Arrangements

§ 1974. Actions by United States; subpenas for witnesses

Statutory text

In any action brought by or on behalf of the United States under section 1972 of this title, subpenas for witnesses may run into any district, but no writ of subpena may issue for witnesses living out of the district in which the court is held at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding the same without the prior permission of the trial court upon proper application and cause shown.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of 1970

    Pub. L. 91–607 title I § 106(d) · 84 Stat. 1760

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 1974

    (Pub. L. 91–607, title I, § 106(d), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1767.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 91–607, title I, § 106(d), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1767.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (d) In any action brought by or on behalf of the United States Territorial limits under subsection (b), subpenas for witnesses may run into any district, but no writ of subpena may issue for witnesses living out. of the district in which the court is held at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding the same without the prior permission of the trial court upon proper application and cause shown.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 91–607, title I, § 106(d), , 84 Stat. 1767.)

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