N.Y. Financial Services Law § 306: Attendance of witnesses; production of documents and records

§ 306. Attendance of witnesses; production of documents and records.

(a) The superintendent or the person authorized by the superintendent to

conduct a hearing or investigation shall have power to subpoena

witnesses, compel the attendance of witnesses, administer oaths, examine

any person under oath, and to compel any person to subscribe to his or

her testimony after it has been correctly reduced to writing, and in

connection therewith to require the production of any books, papers,

records, correspondence or other documents which the superintendent

deems relevant to the inquiry. A subpoena issued under this section

shall be regulated by the civil practice law and rules.

(b) No person subject to the provisions of this chapter, the insurance

law or the banking law whose conduct, condition or practices are being

investigated, and no officer, director or employee of any such person,

shall be entitled to witness or mileage fees.

(c) In addition to the liabilities and punishment prescribed by the

civil practice law and rules, any person who, without just cause fails

or refuses to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to

produce any books, papers or records in obedience to a subpoena issued

by the superintendent shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(d) Every regulated person under this chapter, the insurance law or

the banking law who is given a notice of hearing pursuant to this

chapter shall upon the service of a notice to produce books and records,

when attached to the notice of hearing or mailed subsequently thereto in

the same manner as the notice of hearing, pursuant to such notice,

produce at the hearing the books, records and documents enumerated

therein.