Tennessee Statutes
§ 8-6-402 — Investigative demands for production of documents and testimony
Tennessee § 8-6-402
JurisdictionTennessee
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Bluebook
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-6-402 (2026).
Text
(a)For these purposes, the attorney general and reporter is empowered to issue civil investigative demands to require the attendance of witnesses or the submission of documents, or both, at specified times and places, to give testimony in the case or matter therein stated. The demand shall mention the parties to the inquiry and the party at whose instance the witness is called, and, if necessary, require the witness also to bring any books, documents, or other writings, records or tangible objects under the witness' control, which may be pertinent to the inquiry.
(b)No witness called to testify or to produce records, books, documents, writings or other tangible objects under §§ 8-6-401 - 8-6-406 shall be required to testify in any county other than the witness' county of residence or the
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Related
State Ex Rel. Shriver v. Leech
612 S.W.2d 454 (Tennessee Supreme Court, 1981)
McNiel v. Cooper
241 S.W.3d 886 (Court of Appeals of Tennessee, 2007)
In Re Investigation Of Wall And Associates, Inc.
(Court of Appeals of Tennessee, 2021)
Frank H. McNiel v. Susan R. Cooper
(Court of Appeals of Tennessee, 2007)
Legislative History
Acts 1976, ch. 646, § 2; T.C.A., § 8-631.
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Tennessee § 8-6-402, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/tn/8-6-402.