§ 28 — Testimony-Immunity

Illinois § 28

• Jurisdiction: Illinois
• Topic: HUMAN NEEDS
• Ch. 315: URBAN PROBLEMS
• Act 315 ILCS 20/: Neighborhood Redevelopment Corporation Law.

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No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any papers, books, accounts or documents in any investigation or inquiry or upon any hearing ordered or held by the Redevelopment Commission, when ordered to do so, upon the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the Redevelopment Commission; Provided, that such immunity shall extend only to a natural person who in obedience to a subpoena gives testimony under oath or produces evidence, documentary or otherwise, under oath. No person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.

Legislative History

(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 431.)