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.
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.)