§ 15.08 — Commissioners of Management and Budget and Administration; Access to Records
Plain-Language Summary
This section establishes the general powers and duties of state department commissioners, including authority to organize their departments and adopt rules.
15.08 COMMISSIONERS OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET AND ADMINISTRATION; ACCESS TO RECORDS.
The commissioner of management and budget and the commissioner of administration and their designated agents shall have free access to the records of all state departments and agencies, and may issue subpoenas for and compel the attendance of witnesses and the giving of testimony and the production of books, records, accounts, documents, and papers; and may administer oaths to witnesses or take their affirmation. If any person shall fail or refuse to appear or testify regarding that upon which the person may be lawfully interrogated, or to produce any books, records, accounts, documents or papers material in the matter under consideration, after having been lawfully required by order or subpoena, any judge of the district court in any county of the state where the order or subpoena was made returnable, on application of the commissioner of management and budget or commissioner of administration, as the case may be, shall compel obedience or punish disobedience as for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of a similar order or subpoena issued by such court.
History:
(53-1d) 1939 c 431 art 8 s 3; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1986 c 444; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
History: History: (53-1d) 1939 c 431 art 8 s 3; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1986 c 444; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109