3-3-115 - Penalty for evasion of service.
3-3-115. Penalty for evasion of service.
Any person who, after having knowledge that an inquiry or investigation has been ordered by either house or both houses of the general assembly, willfully leaves and is absent from the county of such person's usual residence for the purpose of evading the service upon such person of any subpoena that thereafter might be issued to command such person to appear and give testimony or produce documents or other evidence in the course of any such inquiry or investigation, commits a Class C misdemeanor.
[Acts 1931, ch. 3, § 7; C. Supp. 1950, § 172.7; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 3-315; Acts 1989, ch. 519, § 113.]