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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 927. Powers of deputy commissioners or Board
(a) The deputy commissioner or Board shall have power to preserve
and enforce order during any such proceedings; to issue subpoenas
for, to administer oaths to, and to compel the attendance and
testimony of witnesses, or the production of books, papers,
documents, and other evidence, or the taking of depositions before
any designated individual competent to administer oaths; to examine
witnesses; and to do all things conformable to law which may be
necessary to enable him effiectively (!1) to discharge the duties
of his office.
(b) If any person in proceedings before a deputy commissioner or
Board disobeys or resists any lawful order or process, or
misbehaves during a hearing or so near the place thereof as to
obstruct the same, or neglects to produce, after having been
ordered to do so, any pertinent book, paper, or document, or
refuses to appear after having been subpoenaed, or upon appearing
refuses to take the oath as a witness, or after having taken the
oath refuses to be examined according to law, the deputy
commissioner or Board shall certify the facts to the district court
having jurisdiction in the place in which he is sitting (or to the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia if he is
sitting in such District) which shall thereupon in a summary manner
hear the evidence as to the acts complained of, and if the evidence
so warrants, punish such person in the same manner and to the same
extent as for a contempt committed before the court, or commit such
person upon the same conditions as if the doing of the forbidden
act had occurred with reference to the process of or in the
presence of the court.
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