No officer, agent, or employee of any public utility, company, firm, person, partnership, corporation, or association, subject to any law which the tax commissioner is required to administer shall fail to fill out and return any blanks required by such law, fail to answer any questions therein propounded, or knowingly or willfully give a false answer to any such question where the fact inquired of is within his knowledge, or fail upon proper demand to exhibit to the commissioner any book, paper, account, record, or memoranda of such public utility, which is in possession of such officer, agent, or employee or under his control.
Effective Date: 10-01-1953 .