§ 3-3-117 — Issuance of attachments

(a) Power is given to such committees or subcommittees to issue attachments to be served on all persons who may willfully violate any subpoena, rule or order, made or promulgated by such committee. (b) Such attachment may be served by a sergeant-at-arms of any such committee on the offending person, who shall be kept in the custody of the sergeant-at-arms and brought before such committee to be dealt with as such committee may determine, under the power and authority provided and given in this chapter.

Legislative History

Acts 1931, ch. 3, § 11; C. Supp. 1950, § 172.11; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 3-317.