Title 9 Part 2109

The administrator or any officer or agent designated by the administrator, may administer oaths and affirmations and may, whenever necessary, by subpoena require any person to appear and testify or to appear and produce documents, or both, at any designated place.

The production of a person's documents at any place other than his place of business shall not be required in any case in which, prior to the return date specified in the subpoena issued with respect thereto, such person either has furnished the administrator with a copy of such documents certified by such person under oath to be a true and correct copy, or has entered into a stipulation with the administrator as to the information contained in such documents.

In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena served upon any person, the supreme court in, or for any judicial district in which such person is found or resides or transacts business upon application by the administrator, shall have jurisdiction to issue an order requiring such person to appear and give testimony or to appear and produce documents, or both; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.

No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing documents or other evidence in obedience to the subpoena of the administrator or of any duly authorized officer or agent thereof, on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, except that such person so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying. The immunity herein provided shall extend only to natural persons so compelled to testify.

The administrator shall not publish or disclose any information obtained under the act or this Subchapter that the administrator deems confidential or with reference to which a request for confidential treatment is made by the person furnishing such information, unless the administrator determines that the withholding thereof is contrary to the public interest.

The administrator may delegate in writing to the local rent administrator, or any other person or persons, the authority to carry out any of the duties and powers granted to him by the act or this Subchapter.