5 U.S.C. § 8480 — Subpoena authority

submitted 17 years ago by Pub. L. 111-31 to r/title-5-GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATION-AND-EMPLOYEES · 197 words · no verdicts yet

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The Executive Director can subpoena documents and records needed to run the Thrift Savings Fund. Anyone who complies in good faith is protected from being sued over it. A federal court can order compliance and punish disobedience as contempt.

(a) To carry out the responsibilities specified in this subchapter and subchapter III of this chapter, the Executive Director may issue subpoenas ordering a person to produce specified books, documents, records, electronically stored information, or tangible materials that person possesses or controls. (b) Despite any federal, state, or local law, anyone — including officers, agents, and employees — who receives a subpoena under this section and complies in good faith by producing the materials sought is not liable, in any state or federal court, to any individual, domestic or foreign corporation, or partnership or other unincorporated association, for that production. (c) If someone fails to obey a subpoena issued under this section, the United States district court where the investigation is happening, or where that person is found, must, on a proper request, order that person to comply. The court may punish disobedience of its order as contempt. (d) The Executive Director must prescribe regulations to carry out subsection (a).

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(a)

In order to carry out the responsibilities specified in this subchapter and subchapter III of this chapter, the Executive Director may issue subpoenas commanding each person to whom the subpoena is directed to produce designated books, documents, records, electronically stored information, or tangible materials in the possession or control of that individual.

(b)

Notwithstanding any Federal, State, or local law, any person, including officers, agents, and employees, receiving a subpoena under this section, who complies in good faith with the subpoena and thus produces the materials sought, shall not be liable in any court of any State or the United States to any individual, domestic or foreign corporation or upon a partnership or other unincorporated association for such production.

(c)

When a person fails to obey a subpoena issued under this section, the district court of the United States for the district in which the investigation is conducted or in which the person failing to obey is found, shall on proper application issue an order directing that person to comply with the subpoena. The court may punish as contempt any disobedience of its order.

(d)

The Executive Director shall prescribe regulations to carry out subsection (a).

Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 111–31, div. B, title I, § 107(a), June 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1856.)

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2009Enacted · Pub. L. 111-31 · 123 Stat. 1856

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