Section 5-B. The commission shall have power to administer oaths, subpoena and require the attendance of witnesses, citizens and residents of this State, and the production thereby of books and papers pertinent to the investigations and inquiries hereby authorized, and to examine them and such public records as it shall require in relation to any matter which it has the authority to investigate. The fees of such witnesses for attendance and travel shall be the same as for witnesses before the courts of common pleas, and shall be paid from the appropriation for the incidental expenses of the commission. All officers in the public service, and their deputies, clerks, subordinates, and employes shall, without fee, attend and testify when required to do so by said commission. Any disobedience to, or neglect of, any subpoena issued by the said commissioners, or any one of them, to any person, shall be held a contempt of court and shall be punished by any court of common pleas of this Commonwealth as if such subpoena had been issued therefrom. Any judge of any of said courts shall, upon the application of any one of said commissioners in such cases, cause the process of said court to issue to compel such person or persons disobeying or neglecting any such subpoena to appear and to give testimony before the said commissioners or any one of them, and shall have power to punish any such contempt.
(5-B added Apr. 13, 1927, P.L.203, No.160)