§ 17-132 Appearance and examination of witnesses.
AC § 17-132
Upon the application of any party in interest in any matter pending examination before the department, by affidavit, stating the grounds of such application, to any judge of a court of record, and asking that any person or persons therein named shall appear before the department, or any person taking or about to take such examination, at some time or times and place to be stated in the affidavit, it shall be the duty of such judge, if he or she shall discover reasonable cause so to do, to issue his or her order requiring such person or persons named to appear and submit to such examination as, and to the extent such order may state, at the time and place to be in the order named; and the order, signed by such judge, may be served, and shall in all respects be obeyed as a subpoena duly issued. A refusal to submit to the proper examination may be punished by such judge or by any judge of such court as a contempt of court, upon the facts as to such refusal being brought before any such judge by affidavit.
