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45.142 Enforcement of laws -- Investigation procedure.
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and those sections of KRS
Chapters 41, 45, and 48 relating to the state budget and financial administration, the
secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the
Legislative Research Commission, for their respective branches of government, or any
officer or employee designated by them, shall have free access during business hours to
all books, reports, papers, and accounts in the office or under the care or control of any
budget unit of their respective branches of government, and may administer oaths, certify
to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production
of testimony touching any subject properly under investigation by them, and may compel
the production of books, papers, and accounts. If any person fails to comply with the
order of, or to obey a subpoena issued by them or their designated agents, or refuses to
testify as a witness to any matters regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, the
judge having jurisdiction of the person to whom the order or subpoena was issued may,
on their application compel obedience by proceedings for contempt as in the case of
disobedience of a subpoena or order issued from such court or a refusal to testify therein,
and may adjudge such person guilty of contempt of court and punish him as provided by
law in other contempt cases.
Effective: July 1, 1983
History: Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 450, sec. 46. effective July 1, 1983.
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