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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 21A — Tobacco Inspection

§ 511n. Hearings; examination of witnesses; refusal to testify or produce evidence

Statutory text

In carrying on the work authorized in this chapter, the Secretary, or any officer or employee designated by him for such purpose, shall have power to hold hearings, administer oaths, sign and issue subpenas, examine witnesses, and require the production of books, records, accounts, memoranda, and papers. Upon refusal by any person to appear, testify, or produce books, records, accounts, memoranda, and papers in response to a subpena, the proper United States district court shall have power to compel obedience thereto.

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. Pub. L. 74–623 § 15 · 49 Stat. 731

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 511n

    (Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 623, § 15, 49 Stat. 735.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 623, § 15, 49 Stat. 735.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 15. That in carrying on the work herein authorized, the Rearings, administration of oaths, etc. Secretary, or any officer or employee designated by him for such purpose, shall have power to hold hearings, administer oaths, sign and issue subpenas, examine witnesses, and require the production of books, records, accounts, memoranda, and papers. Upon refusal Subpenas. by any person to appear, testify, or produce books, records, accounts, memoranda, and papers in response to a subpena, the proper United States district court shall have power to compel obedience thereto.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 623, § 15, 49 Stat. 735.)

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