A record must be kept of all testimony and proceedings before the bureau or in connection with any appeal, but the testimony need not be transcribed unless further review is initiated. Witnesses subpoenaed pursuant to this chapter must be allowed fees at the rate specified by law, and the fees of such witnesses subpoenaed either by the bureau or on behalf of any party to said appeal must be deemed part of the expenses of administering the North Dakota unemployment compensation law.
52-06-25. Order issued by court upon failure to obey subpoena - Failure to obey order. In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to, any person, any court of this state within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which the person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business, upon application by the chairman of an appeal tribunal or the bureau or its duly
authorized representative, shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before an appeal tribunal or the bureau, or its duly authorized representative, there to produce evidence, if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question. Any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof.
52-06-26. Self-incrimination not to exempt person from testifying - Regulations governing. No person may be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before the chairman of an appeal tribunal, the bureau or any member thereof, or any duly authorized representative of the bureau, in any cause or proceeding before the bureau, on the grounds that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of the person, may tend to incriminate the person or subject the person to a penalty or forfeiture. No individual may be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which the individual is compelled, after having claimed the individual's privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except that such individual so testifying is not exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.