2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 227 - FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION -- ELECTRICIANS 227.280 Subpoena and oath -- Production of evidence -- Conduct of examinations -- Contempt.
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227.280 Subpoena and oath -- Production of evidence -- Conduct of
examinations -- Contempt.
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The state fire marshal may subpoena witnesses; may administer oaths; may
require the production of books, papers, accounts, documents, and other
records or materials of an evidentiary nature; and may examine witnesses in
any investigation or other fact-finding proceeding authorized under this chapter.
Examinations may be public or private. Persons other than those required to
be present may be excluded from the place where the examination or
investigation is held, and witnesses may be kept separate and apart from each
other and not allowed to communicate with each other until they have been
examined.
If any person fails to respond to a subpoena, or refuses to be sworn, or refuses
to testify, or fails or refuses to produce any record or material called for, or fails
or refuses to comply with a lawful order of the fire marshal or any deputy fire
marshal or performs any contemptuous or contumacious act after being
summoned to appear in connection with an investigation or fact-finding
proceeding authorized under this chapter, the fire marshal or any deputy fire
marshal, as the case may be, shall certify the facts to the Circuit Court of the
county in which the offense was committed. That court shall have jurisdiction to
hear, try, and punish these persons as in other cases of contempt.
The same fees shall be paid for the service of process, for the taking of
depositions, and for the services of stenographers as is provided for like
services in Circuit Court.
Effective:July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 139, effective July 15, 1996. -Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 305, sec. 9, effective June 17, 1978. -- Created
1954 Ky. Acts ch. 201, sec. 9.
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