2.23 - WITNESS -- ATTENDANCE COMPULSORY.
2.23 WITNESS -- ATTENDANCE COMPULSORY.
Whenever a committee of either house, or a joint committee of
both, is conducting an investigation requiring the personal
attendance of witnesses, any person may be compelled to appear before
such committee as a witness by serving an order upon the person,
which service shall be made in the manner required in case of a
subpoena in a civil action in the district court. Such order shall
state the time and place a person is required to appear, be signed by
the presiding officer of the body by which the committee was
appointed, and attested by its acting secretary or clerk; or, in case
of a joint committee, signed and attested by such officers of that
body. Section History: Early Form
[C73, § 17; C97, § 21; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 28; C46, 50, 54,
58, 62, 66, § 2.29; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 2.23]
Referred to in § 2.24