43-8-192
Section 43-8-192 Drawing and summoning of jurors; penalty for default. (a) The jury for the trial of such contest must be drawn and summoned as provided by law. (b) Any person summoned as a juror who shall, without legal cause or good excuse, fail to attend at the time and place required, shall be guilty of a contempt of court and may be punished by the court by a fine of not exceeding $100.00. (Code 1852, §§1637-1639; Code 1867, §§1956-1958; Code 1876, §§2320-2322; Code 1886, §§1991, 1992; Code 1896, §§4289, 4290; Code 1907, §§6198, 6199; Acts 1909, No. 227, p. 305; Code 1923, §§10627, 10628; Code 1940, T. 61, §§54, 55; Code 1975, §43-1-72.)...
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17-16-70
Section 17-16-70 Commission has power to punish for contempt. If any witness, being summoned, fails to attend, or being summoned with a subpoena duces tecum, fails and refuses to produce the paper or document required to be produced by the subpoena, the commission shall have the right and authority to punish the witness for contempt by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in any county jail in the state for a period not to exceed 30 days, one or both, and in case any witness shall fail to appear or produce any book or document before any judge, clerk of court, or other person having a warrant from the commission, the judge, clerk of court, or other person, must certify the fact to the commission, which may thereupon punish such witness for contempt, as provided in this section. (Code 1896, §1679; Code 1907, §485; Code 1923, §575; Code 1940, T. 17, §261; §17-15-57; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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40-2A-7
Section 40-2A-7 Uniform revenue procedures. (a) Maintenance of records; audit and subpoena authority; authority to issue regulations. (1) In addition to all other recordkeeping requirements otherwise set out in this title, taxpayers shall keep and maintain an accurate and complete set of records, books, and other information sufficient to allow the department to determine the correct amount of value or correct amount of any tax, license, permit, or fee administered by the department, or other records or information as may be necessary for the proper administration of any matters under the jurisdiction of the department. The books, records, and other information shall be open and available for inspection by the department upon request at a reasonable time and location. (2) The department may examine and audit the records, books, or other relevant information maintained by any taxpayer or other person for the purpose of computing and determining the correct amount of value or correct...
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12-16-100
Section 12-16-100 Drawing, selection, and empaneling of juries in criminal cases - Generally. (a) In every criminal case the jury shall be drawn, selected and empaneled as follows: Upon the trial by jury in the circuit courts of any person charged with a felony, including a capital felony, a misdemeanor, or violation, the court shall require a strike list or lists to be compiled from the names appearing on the master strike list as established in Section 12-16-74. In compiling the list or lists, names of qualified jurors may be omitted on a nonselective basis. A strike list shall be furnished for the trial of any case at hand and a copy thereof given to all parties. The jurors whose names appear thereon shall be brought into open court, the case shall be called and in the presence of the district attorney and the defendant and his attorney, the jurors shall be examined on voir dire for the trial of the case at hand. After the conclusion of the voir dire examination and the removal from...
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12-16-82
Section 12-16-82 Effect of failure of person summoned as juror to obey summons. If any person summoned as a grand or petit juror shall fail to obey such summons without good excuse, to be determined by the court, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of court; and, if no sufficient excuse is rendered for him or her at the time of his or her default, an order shall be entered for him or her to show cause why he or she shall not be adjudged guilty of contempt and punished accordingly; and, if he or she shall fail at the next session after the service of such notice to render such excuse, he or she shall be fined by the court not more than three hundred dollars ($300) and may be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than 10 days. In courts holding sessions longer than 30 days, the order shall be made returnable 20 days after it issues, and the person in default shall have 10 days after service in which to appear and render his or her excuse. (Code 1896, §5046; Code 1907,...
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12-16-44
Section 12-16-44 Preparation, etc., of separate jury rolls and boxes for courts of territorial subdivisions of counties. Whenever a court requiring grand and petit juries or petit juries is established for and held in a territorial subdivision of the county, the jury commission shall make and keep a separate roll and make a separate box for that court and territorial subdivision, on which roll and in which box only the names of jurors residing in that territory shall be placed, which box shall be kept by the clerk of said court and the key thereof by the judge of said court, and all jurors for that court shall be drawn by the judge of said court as provided in this article from the separate jury box provided under this section and shall be summoned as provided by law for summoning jurors otherwise drawn. The names of jurors whose names are required to be placed on the roll and in the box provided for in this section shall not be placed on any other roll nor in any other box nor shall...
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2-17-24
Section 2-17-24 Conduct of investigations and requirement of reports as to organization, business, practices, etc., of persons, firms, etc., engaged in intrastate commerce by commissioner; access to copying, etc., of documentary evidence; powers of commissioner as to witnesses generally; issuance of subpoenas and orders for taking of depositions; enforcement of subpoenas and orders of commissioner, etc., generally; fees of witnesses, etc.; witnesses not to be excused from testifying on grounds of self-incrimination; immunity from prosecution of witnesses as to matters, etc., upon which compelled to testify. (a) The commissioner shall also have power: (1) To gather and compile information concerning and to investigate from time to time the organization, business, conduct, practices and management of any person, firm or corporation engaged in intrastate commerce and the relation thereof to other persons, firms and corporations; (2) To require, by general or special order, persons, firms...
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12-16-89
Section 12-16-89 Negligent failure of sheriff or deputy to summon juror. If the sheriff or any deputy shall negligently fail to summon any person to serve as a juror whom he is commanded to summon, he shall be held and deemed guilty of a contempt of court and shall be fined not more than $100.00 in every case where the person is not so served, and he may also be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than five days. The return of any such person as "not found" shall be prima facie evidence of negligence on the part of the sheriff or deputy making the return, and he shall be punished by the court unless the court is reasonably satisfied from evidence produced that he was not negligent. (Acts 1909, No. 227, p. 305; Code 1923, §§8620, 8621; Code 1940, T. 30, §§36, 37.)...
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6-6-202
Section 6-6-202 Statement of assets - Refusal to file or submit to oral examination. The willful refusal to file such statement as provided for in this division or to appear and submit to such oral examination shall constitute a contempt of court, and the person so adjudged by the court to be guilty of such contempt may be punished within the discretion of the court as now provided by law in cases of contempt of court. (Acts 1915, No. 813, p. 927; Code 1923, §7350; Code 1940, T. 7, §905.)...
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6-5-150
Section 6-5-150 Grant and effect of permanent injunction. If upon the final hearing the allegations are sustained to the satisfaction of the court or judge, the court or judge shall enter a judgment restraining the defendants and all other persons from continuing the nuisance. When any injunction has been granted, it shall be binding on the defendants throughout the county. Any violation thereof shall be contempt of court and punished as provided in Section 6-5-154. (Acts 1919, No. 53, p. 52; Code 1923, §9289; Code 1940, T. 7, §1100.)...
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