Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 12 — Contested Elections
§ 390. Penalty for failure to appear, testify, or produce documents
Statutory text
Every person who, having been subpenaed as a witness under this chapter to give testimony or to produce documents, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the contested election case, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 or imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than twelve months, or both.
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.
Federal Contested Election Act
Pub. L. 91–138 § 11 · 83 Stat. 284
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 390
(Pub. L. 91–138, § 11, Dec. 5, 1969, 83 Stat. 288.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–138, § 11, Dec. 5, 1969, 83 Stat. 288.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 11. penalty for failure to appear, testify, or produce documents Every person who, having been subpenaed as a witness under this Act to give testimony or to produce documents, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the contested election case, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 or imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than twelve months, or both.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section applicable with respect to any general or special election for Representative in, or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress of the United States occurring after , see section 19 of Pub. L. 91–138, set out as a note under section 381 of this title.