42 USC 3611 - Subpoenas; giving of evidence

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§ 3611.

Subpoenas; giving of evidence

(a)

In general

(b)

Witness fees

(c)

Criminal penalties

(1)

Any person who willfully fails or neglects to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce records, documents, or other evidence, if it is in such person’s power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or other lawful order under subsection (a), shall be fined not more than $100,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(2)

Any person who, with intent thereby to mislead another person in any proceeding under this subchapter—

(A)

makes or causes to be made any false entry or statement of fact in any report, account, record, or other document produced pursuant to subpoena or other lawful order under subsection (a);

(B)

willfully neglects or fails to make or to cause to be made full, true, and correct entries in such reports, accounts, records, or other documents; or

(C)

willfully mutilates, alters, or by any other means falsifies any documentary evidence;

shall be fined not more than $100,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(Pub. L. 90–284, title VIII, § 811, as added Pub. L. 100–430, § 8(2), Sept. 13, 1988, 102 Stat. 1628.)

cite as: 42 USC 3611