10-50-45. Judicial enforcement of departmental process--Commitment to jail--Further proceedings by secretary. If any person shall disobey the process authorized by § 10-50-43 or having appeared in obedience thereto shall refuse to answer any pertinent question put to him by the secretary of revenue or his authorized agent or to produce any books and papers pursuant thereto, the secretary or such agent may apply to the circuit court for the county wherein the taxpayer resides or wherein the business has been conducted, or to any judge of said court if the same shall not be in session, setting forth such disobedience to process or refusal to answer, and said court or such judge shall cite such person to appear before said court or such judge to answer such question or to produce such books and papers, and, upon his refusal so to do, shall commit him to jail until he shall testify, but not for a longer period than sixty days. Notwithstanding the serving of the term of such commitment by any person, the secretary may proceed in all respects with such inquiry and examination as if the witness had not previously been called upon to testify.
Source: SDC 1939, § 57.3915; SL 2003, ch 272 (Ex. Ord. 03-1), § 82; SL 2011, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 11-1), § 161, eff. Apr. 12, 2011.
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