TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT
DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
§ 9312. Lottery Commission: Compelling of Testimony and Records. Upon petition of the commission, the Commonwealth Trial Court may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents, books, records and other evidence before the commission in any matter over which the commission has jurisdiction, control or supervision. If a person subpoenaed to attend any such proceeding or hearing fails to obey the command of the subpoena without reasonable cause, or if a person in attendance in any such proceeding or hearing refuses, without lawful cause, to be examined or to answer a legal or pertinent question or to produce any subpoenaed book, account, record or other document, that person may be held in contempt and punished by the court. Source: PL 3-60, § 11. Commission Comment: Section 4 of PL 6-25, the “Commonwealth Judicial Reorganization Act of 1989,” provides that “[w]herever the term ‘Commonwealth Trial Court’ appears in the Commonwealth Code, it is henceforth to be interpreted and understood to refer to the Commonwealth Superior Court.” With respect to the references to the Lottery Commission, see Executive Order 94-3 (effective August 23, 1994), reorganizing the executive branch, changing agency names and official titles, and effecting other changes, set forth in the Commission comment to 1 CMC § 2001; see also the comment to 1 CMC § 9301.