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Code · New Jersey · Title 54 — Debtor and Creditor · Chapter 50

54:50-5. Procedure to compel witnesses to attend and to testify

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If a person subpoenaed to attend any hearing under this subtitle fails to appear, be examined or answer any question, or produce any books, records, papers, vouchers, accounts or documents when subpoenaed so to do by the director or any deputy, the director or such deputy may apply to the Superior Court for an order to compel him to do so.
Amended by L.1953, c. 51, p. 938, s. 168.
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