N.Y. Public Service Law § 19: Attendance of witnesses and their fees

§ 19. Attendance of witnesses and their fees. 1. The commission shall

have power to issue subpoenas and subpoena duces tecum. All subpoenas

shall be signed and issued by a commissioner, by an officer or employee

of the commission specially authorized to conduct an investigation or

hearing or by the secretary or assistant secretary of the commission.

The fees of witnesses required to attend before the commission, or a

commissioner, or an officer or employee specially authorized to conduct

an investigation or hearing, shall be the same as in the case of a

subpoena issued out of a court of record, and paid when the witness is

excused from further attendance. Except as is herein provided subpoenas

shall be regulated by the civil practice law and rules. Whenever a

subpoena is issued at the instance of a complainant, respondent, or

other party to any proceeding before the commission, the cost of service

thereof and the fee of the witness shall be borne by the party at whose

instance the witness is summoned.

2. If a person subpoenaed to attend before the commission or a

commissioner, or an officer or employee specially authorized to conduct

an investigation or hearing, fails to obey the command of such subpoena,

without reasonable cause, or if a person in attendance before the

commission or commissioner, or an officer or employee specially

authorized to conduct an investigation or hearing, shall, without

reasonable cause, refuse to be sworn or to be examined or to answer a

question or to produce a book or papers, when ordered so to do by the

commission, or a commissioner, or an officer or employee specially

authorized to conduct an investigation or hearing, or to subscribe and

swear to his deposition after it has been correctly reduced to writing,

he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be prosecuted therefor in

any court of competent criminal jurisdiction.