Tex. Gov't Code § 4007.055 · Subchapter B. INSPECTIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS
ENFORCEMENT OF SUBPOENA; CONTEMPT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a person disobeys a subpoena or if a witness appearing before the commissioner refuses to give evidence, the commissioner may petition the district court of a jurisdiction in which the person or witness may be found, and the court on this petition may issue an order requiring the person or witness to, as applicable, obey the subpoena, testify, or produce a book, an account, a record, a paper, and correspondence relating to the matter in question.
(b) The district court may punish as contempt the failure to obey an order under Subsection (a).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 491 (H.B. 4171), Sec. 1.01, eff. January 1, 2022.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.4007.htm
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