{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-30-13-50","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-13-50","heading":"Refusal to appear or testify.","body":"Any person not subject to this code who:\n(1) Has been duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness or to produce books and records before a military court or before any military or civil officer designated to take a deposition to be read in evidence before a military court;\n(2) Has been duly paid or tendered the fees and mileage of a witness at the rates allowed to witnesses attending the superior courts of the state; and\n(3) Willfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witness or to testify or to produce any evidence which that person may have been legally subpoenaed to produce;\nis guilty of an offense against the state and a military court may punish that person in the same manner as the civil courts of the state.","path":["Title 30 Military Affairs and Defense","Chapter 13 Rhode Island Code of Military Justice"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE30/30-13/30-13-50.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T19:58:08Z","sha256":"d0eab141cebf88af2fe8122a327f72798f977ffd50f50fa693add083553e2113","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-30-13-49","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-30-13-51"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}