TITLE 49

MOTOR VEHICLES

CHAPTER 22

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS/HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSPORTATION ENFORCEMENT

49-2208.  Subpoena authority. The attorney general or any prosecuting attorney, for the purposes contemplated by this chapter, upon probable cause to believe that a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter has occurred, may, after notice to the persons to whom the subpoena is to be directed, apply to any judge of the district court for the county in which such violation is believed to have occurred for a subpoena to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to compel the production of pertinent books, payrolls, accounts, papers, records, documents and testimony. Such judge shall issue a subpoena upon a finding of probable cause and shall enforce refusals to testify or to produce subpoenaed items with contempt sanctions. Subpoenas shall be served and witness fees and mileage paid as allowed in civil cases in the district courts of this state.

History:

[49-2208, added 1988, ch. 265, sec. 460, p. 817.]