52-9 - Administration of oaths; acknowledgments and affidavits; summoning witnesses in certain cases.
§ 52-9. Administration of oaths; acknowledgments and affidavits; summoningwitnesses in certain cases.
A. All police officers appointed by the Superintendent are vested with theauthority and power to administer oaths and take acknowledgments andaffidavits incidental to the administration and enforcement of all lawsrelating to the operation of motor vehicles, applications for driver'slicenses and the collection and refunding of taxes levied on gasoline, forwhich services they shall receive no compensation.
B. Any member of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation conducting aninvestigation may petition an appropriate judicial officer for the issuanceof a summons directed to a sheriff of any county or city, police chief of anytown, or to any member of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, commandingthe officer to summon witnesses at such time and place as he may direct. Anysuch officer to whom the summons is delivered shall forthwith execute it, andmake return thereof at the time and place named therein.
C. Any member of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation who is conducting aninvestigation requested under the provisions of § 52-8.2 or investigatingfrauds or attempts to defraud the Commonwealth or any of its politicalsubdivisions or investigating criminal misconduct related to official dutiesof any officer, agent, or employee of the Commonwealth or any of itspolitical subdivisions, upon authorization by the Attorney General or anattorney for the Commonwealth, may administer an oath to any complainingwitness who is giving a statement or evidence concerning such investigation.If oath is administered pursuant to this statute it shall be administeredprior to the taking of any statement, and any statement taken after such oathshall be reduced to writing and subscribed by the witness.
(1932, p. 617; 1934, p. 277; Michie Code 1942, § 2154(53); 1944, p. 204; R.P.1948, § 52-9; 1980, c. 228; 1981, c. 223; 1984, c. 780.)