Marvin Mandel, Governor 1599
(5) The Board may order testimony to be taken by deposition in
any proceeding or investigation pending under this Act at any stage
of such proceeding or investigation. Such depositions may be taken
before any person designated by the Board and having power to
administer oaths. Such testimony shall be reduced to writing by the
person taking the deposition, or under his direction and shall then
be subscribed by the deponent. Any person may be compelled to
appear and depose and to produce documentary evidence in the same
manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and
produce documentary evidence before the Board as hereinbefore
provided.
(6) Witnesses summoned before the Board shall be paid the
same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of this
State, and witnesses whose depositions are taken and the persons
taking the same shall severally be entitled to the same fees as are
paid for like services in such courts.
(7) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or
from producing books, papers, schedules of charges, contracts, agree-
ments, or other documentary evidence before the Board or in obedi-
ence to the subpoena of the Board, or in any cause or proceeding,
criminal or otherwise, based upon or growing out of any alleged
violation of this Act, on the ground that the testimony or evidence
required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a
penalty or forfeiture; but no individual shall be prosecuted or sub-
jected to any penalty or forfeiture for any matter, which he is com-
pelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination,
to testify or produce evidence, except that any individual so testify-
ing shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury.
(c)(1) Any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend and
testify or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary
evidence, in his power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful
requirement of the Board shall be guilty of an offense and upon
conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, or by
imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
(2) Any person who shall willfully make, or cause to be made,
any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be
made under this Act, or who shall willfully make, or cause to be
made, any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept
by any person subject to this Act or who shall willfully neglect or
fail to make or to cause to be made, full, true, and correct entries in
such accounts, records, or memoranda, of all facts and transactions
appertaining to the business of any person subject to this Act or
that shall willfully remove out of the jurisdiction of this State, or
willfully mutilate, alter, or by other means falsify any documentary
evidence of any such person, or who shall willfully refuse to submit
to the Board or to any of his authorized agents, for the purpose of
inspection and taking copies, any documentary evidence of any per-
son subject to this Act in his or its possession or within his control
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject, upon
conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction to a fine of not less
than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, or to imprisonment for a term of
not more than three years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
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