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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Government Code § 4007.055: ENFORCEMENT OF SUBPOENA; CONTEMPT.

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  1. GOVERNMENT CODE
  2. TITLE 12. SECURITIES ACT
  3. CHAPTER 4007. ENFORCEMENT
  4. SUBCHAPTER B. INSPECTIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS

(a) If a person disobeys a subpoena or if a witness appearing before the commissioner refuses to give evidence, the commissioner may petition the district court of a jurisdiction in which the person or witness may be found, and the court on this petition may issue an order requiring the person or witness to, as applicable, obey the subpoena, testify, or produce a book, an account, a record, a paper, and correspondence relating to the matter in question.

(b) The district court may punish as contempt the failure to obey an order under Subsection (a).

Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 491 (H.B. 4171), Sec. 1.01, eff. January 1, 2022.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:16Z. Source file · JSON

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