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execute any process issued under the provisions of this sub-title, and shall
receive such compensation therefor as may be prescribed by law for simi-
lar services.

An. Code, sec. 462. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 48 (p. 390).

410. No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing
books, accounts and papers in any proceeding based upon or growing out
of the provisions of this sub-title on the ground or for the reason that the
testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required by him may
tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture; but no
person having so testified shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty
or forfeiture for on or account of any transaction, matter or thing con-
cerning which he may have testified or produced any documentary evi-
dence ; provided, that no person so testifying shall be exempted from prose-
cution or punishment for perjury in so testifying.

An. Code, sec. 463. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 49 (p. 390).

411. A substantial compliance with the requirements of this sub-title
shall be sufficient to give effect to all rules, orders, acts and regulations of
the commission, and they shall not be declared inoperative, illegal or void,
for any omission of a technical nature in respect thereto.

An. Code, sec. 464. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 50 (p. 390).

412. The commission, its agents, experts and inspectors shall have
power to enter upon any premises occupied by any corporation to which
the provision of this sub-title or any of them are applicable, for the pur-
pose of making the examinations, inspections, valuations and tests con-
templated or provided for in this sub-title, and to set up and use on such
premises any apparatus and appliances and occupy reasonable space there-
for for the purpose of said examinations, inspections and tests.

An. Code, sec. 465. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 51 (p. 391).

413. It shall be the duty of the state auditor to make biennial examina-
tions and audits, comprehensive and thorough in character, of all the re-
ceipts, expenditures, costs, expenses and pecuniary or fiscal affairs or
concerns of the said public service commission, to render and furnish to
the governor, the comptroller and the treasurer, respectively, a full and
detailed report of each of said biennial examinations and audits, the first
of said biennial reports to be delivered to said officials, respectively, upon
the first day of January, and the second of said reports to be delivered to
said officials upon the first day of July of each and every year ensuing
the passage of this act.

An. Code, sec. 466. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 52 (p. 391).

414. The public service commission hereby created shall have, in addi-
tion to the powers herein specified, mentioned or indicated, all additional,
implied and incidental powers, which may be proper and necessary to
effectually carry out, perform and execute all the said powers herein speci-
fied, mentioned or indicated.
See notes to sec. 348.