2014 Iowa Code
TITLE I - STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND MANAGEMENT
SUBTITLE 2 - LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
CHAPTER 2 - GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SECTION 2.23 - Witness — attendance compulsory.


IA Code § 2.23 (2014) What's This?

2.23  Witness — attendance compulsory.

Whenever a committee of either house, or a joint committee of both, is conducting an investigation requiring the personal attendance of witnesses, any person may be compelled to appear before such committee as a witness by serving an order upon the person, which service shall be made in the manner required in case of a subpoena in a civil action in the district court.  Such order shall state the time and place a person is required to appear, be signed by the presiding officer of the body by which the committee was appointed, and attested by its acting secretary or clerk; or, in case of a joint committee, signed and attested by such officers of that body.

[C73, §17; C97, §21; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §28; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §2.29; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §2.23]

Referred to in §2.24

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