§2273 Ancillary Provisions; Subpena Power; Etc.

Summary

The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) can make people swear oaths, take recorded testimony, and issue or change orders that make people appear or bring documents for hearings, exams, or investigations. The FCA can also make rules for those actions. Witnesses and documents can be required from anywhere in the United States or its territories at the place where the proceeding is held. The FCA or any party can ask a U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., the district where the hearing is held, or where the witness lives or works to enforce those orders, and those courts must order compliance. Witnesses must get the same fees and travel pay as in U.S. district courts. If a Farm Credit System institution or one of its directors or officers starts a proceeding, the court may order reasonable expenses and lawyers’ fees and those must be paid by the System institution from its assets. Anyone who willfully ignores an FCA order to attend, testify, or produce records can be convicted of a misdemeanor and fined up to $1,000, jailed up to one year, or both.