(615 ILCS 5/26b) (from Ch. 19, par. 75)
Sec. 26b.
The Department of Natural Resources may make such investigations
and conduct such hearings as may be necessary to the performance of its duties
under this Act. In making any investigation or conducting any hearing the
Department may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses, and may
administer oaths. Any person who shall be served with a subpoena to appear
and testify, or to produce books and papers, and who shall refuse or
neglect to appear or to testify, or to produce books and papers relevant to
such investigation, as commanded in such subpoena, shall be guilty of a
Class B misdemeanor. Any circuit court of this State,
upon application of the Department, may compel the attendance of witnesses,
the production of books and papers and the giving of testimony before said
Department by attachment for contempt as in other cases for refusal to obey
the process and order of the court.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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