Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 507 – Privilege against self-incrimination
No person shall be excused from testifying or producing any book, document or paper in any investigation or inquiry by or upon hearing before the Commission, or any member or examiner thereof, upon the ground that the testimony, evidence, book, document or paper required of such person may tend to incriminate such person or subject such person to penalty, or forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted, punished, or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction, matter or thing concerning which such person shall, under oath, have testified or produced incriminating evidence. No person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by such person in such person’s testimony. Nothing contained in this section is intended to give, or shall be construed in any manner to give any corporation immunity of any kind.
47 Del. Laws, c. 254, § ?10; 48 Del. Laws, c. 371, § ?15; 26 Del. C. 1953, § ?187; 59 Del. Laws, c. 397, § ?1; 84 Del. Laws, c. 42, § 131;
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 507
- Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.