Subpoenas

In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, upon application by the administrator, the board of review, any appeal referee, or any duly authorized representative of any of them, any court of the State within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which the person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business, shall have jurisdiction to issue an order requiring such person to appear before the administrator, the board of review, an appeal referee or any duly authorized representative of any of them, there to produce evidence, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation; and failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof. Any person who shall without just cause fail or refuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce books, papers, correspondence, memoranda and other records, if it is in his power to do so, in obedience to a subpoena of the administrator, the board of review, an appeal referee, or any duly authorized representative of any of them shall be fined not less than twenty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, or both. Each day such violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.