Missouri Laws 386.460 – Refusal to attend or produce books or papers, guilty of misdemeanor — penalty
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 386.460
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Commission: the "Public Service Commission" hereby created. See Missouri Laws 386.020
- Commissioner: one of the members of the commission. See Missouri Laws 386.020
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes an individual, and a firm or copartnership. See Missouri Laws 386.020
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
If a person subpoenaed to appear before the commission or a commissioner fails to obey the command of such subpoena, without reasonable cause, or if a person in attendance upon the commission or a commissioner shall, without a reasonable cause, refuse to be sworn or to be examined, or answer a question, or to produce a book or paper when ordered to do so by the commission or a commissioner, or to subscribe or swear to his deposition after it has been correctly produced in writing, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and may be prosecuted therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction; and in case of a continuing violation each day’s continuance thereof shall be and be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.