KRS 45.142: Enforcement of laws -- Investigation procedure.

For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and those sections of KRS

Chapters 41, 45, and 48 relating to the state budget and financial administration, the

secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the

Legislative Research Commission, for their respective branches of government, or any

officer or employee designated by them, shall have free access during business hours to

all books, reports, papers, and accounts in the office or under the care or control of any

budget unit of their respective branches of government, and may administer oaths, certify

to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production

of testimony touching any subject properly under investigation by them, and may compel

the production of books, papers, and accounts. If any person fails to comply with the

order of, or to obey a subpoena issued by them or their designated agents, or refuses to

testify as a witness to any matters regarding which he may be lawf ully interrogated, the

judge having jurisdiction of the person to whom the order or subpoena was issued may,

on their application compel obedience by proceedings for contempt as in the case of

disobedience of a subpoena or order issued from such court or a refusal to testify therein,

and may adjudge such person guilty of contempt of court and punish him as provided by

law in other contempt cases.