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Section 5:8-89 - Failure to obey subpoena or order; application for order to show cause

NJ Rev Stat § 5:8-89 (2019) (N/A)
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5:8-89. Failure to obey subpoena or order; application for order to show cause

If a person subpoenaed to attend any such investigation or hearing fails to obey the command of the subpoena with reasonable cause, or if a person in attendance in any such investigation or hearing refuses, without lawful cause, to be examined or to answer a legal or pertinent question or to exhibit any book, account, record or other document when ordered so to do by the commissioner holding such investigation or hearing, the commissioner may apply to any judge of the Superior Court, upon proof by affidavit of the facts, for an order returnable in not less than 2 nor more than 10 days, or as the court shall prescribe, directing such person to show cause before the court why he should not comply with such subpoena or such order.

L.1959, c. 108, p. 503, s. 12.

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