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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control

§ 968. Service of subpena; proof of service

Statutory text

A subpena of the Secretary of the Treasury may be served by any person designated in the subpena to serve it. Service upon a natural person may be made by personal delivery of the subpena to him. Service may be made upon a domestic or foreign corporation or upon a partnership or other unincorporated association which is subject to suit under a common name, by delivering the subpena to an officer, a managing or general agent, or to any other agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process. The affidavit of the person serving the subpena entered on a true copy thereof by the person serving it shall be proof of service.

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. (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 800, § 2, 69 Stat. 685.) · 69 Stat. 685

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 968

    (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 800, § 2, 69 Stat. 685.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 800, § 2, 69 Stat. 685.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 which comprises this chapter.

Section was formerly classified to section 1035 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, , 96 Stat. 877.

Section was also formerly classified to section 198b of this title.

Credits

(Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 800, § 2, 69 Stat. 685.)

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