37-45-33 - Procedure upon failure or refusal to comply with subpoena.
§ 37-45-33. Procedure upon failure or refusal to comply with subpoena.
In case of the failure or refusal on the part of any person to comply with any subpoena issued as authorized in Section 37-45-31, or in case of the refusal of any witness to testify or answer to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, the chancellor or the chancery court of the county of the residence of such person, or the chancellor or the chancery court of the county in which the hearing to which the subpoena is returnable is being conducted may, on application of the commission or the chairman thereof, in term time or vacation, issue an attachment for such person and compel him to comply with such subpoena and to attend before the commission and produce the documents specified in any subpoena duces tecum and give his testimony upon such matters as he may be lawfully required. Said chancery court shall have the power to punish for contempt as in case of disobedience of like process issued by or from such chancery court, or as in case of the refusal to testify therein in response to such process.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 6246-26; Laws, 1955, Ex Sess, ch. 58, § 6.