8-6-404 - Failure to comply with investigative demand.

8-6-404. Failure to comply with investigative demand.

Failure of any witness to comply with the terms of a civil investigative demand shall be certified to the chancery court of the judicial district in which the witness resides, and such chancery court shall exercise the authority granted it by law in the treating of contempt of court matters, including, but not limited to, those powers granted in §§ 29-9-103 29-9-105; all to the end that the witness shall be compelled to appear to give testimony at the time and place specified by the chancery court.

[Acts 1976, ch. 646, § 4; T.C.A., § 8-633.]