2015 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 607 - Labor Commissioner
NRS 607.210 - Power of Labor Commissioner to take testimony and issue subpoenas; witness fees; penalty for noncompliance with subpoena.
1. The Labor Commissioner or a person designated by the Labor Commissioner may take testimony in all matters relating to the duties and requirements of this chapter in a suitable place in the vicinity to which the testimony is applicable.
2. The Labor Commissioner or a person designated by the Labor Commissioner may compel the attendance of witnesses, and may issue subpoenas. No witness fees may be paid to any witness unless the witness is required to testify at a place more than 5 miles from the witness’s place of residence, in which event the witness is entitled to be paid the same fees as a witness before a district court. Payment must be made from the fund appropriated for those purposes in the county in which the testimony is taken and the witness examined in the same manner as provided for the payment of witness fees in the district court of that county.
3. Any person subpoenaed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter who willfully refuses or neglects to testify at the time and place named in the subpoena is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[8:203:1915; 1919 RL § 3085; NCL § 2756]—(NRS A 1967, 622; 1975, 531; 1981, 95; 2001, 564)
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