New Hampshire Revised Statutes 400-A:20 – Witnesses and Documentary Evidence
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I. As to the subject of any examination, investigation or hearing being conducted by him, the commissioner may subpoena witnesses and administer oaths or affirmations and examine any individual under oath, or take depositions; and by subpoena duces tecum may require the production of documentary and other evidence. Any delegation by the commissioner of power of subpoena shall be in writing.
II. Every person subpoenaed to appear at any such hearing, examination, or investigation shall obey the subpoena, testify truthfully, conduct himself with decorum, and in no way obstruct the proceeding or purpose thereof.
III. Witnesses shall be entitled to the same fees and allowances as witnesses in the superior court; except that no insurer, agent, broker, or other person subject to this title who is a subject of such proceeding, and no officer, director, or employee of any of the foregoing, shall be entitled to witness or mileage fees. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying in obedience to a subpoena on the ground that the proper witness fee was not tendered or paid, unless the witness shall have demanded such payment as a condition precedent to attending the hearing, examination, or investigation and unless such demand shall not have been complied with.
IV. Any individual knowingly testifying falsely under oath or making a false affirmation, as to any matter material to any such examination, investigation or hearing, shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of perjury.
II. Every person subpoenaed to appear at any such hearing, examination, or investigation shall obey the subpoena, testify truthfully, conduct himself with decorum, and in no way obstruct the proceeding or purpose thereof.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 400-A:20
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
- oath: shall include "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and, in like cases, the word "sworn" shall include the word "affirmed. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:24
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
- Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
- Testify: Answer questions in court.
III. Witnesses shall be entitled to the same fees and allowances as witnesses in the superior court; except that no insurer, agent, broker, or other person subject to this title who is a subject of such proceeding, and no officer, director, or employee of any of the foregoing, shall be entitled to witness or mileage fees. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying in obedience to a subpoena on the ground that the proper witness fee was not tendered or paid, unless the witness shall have demanded such payment as a condition precedent to attending the hearing, examination, or investigation and unless such demand shall not have been complied with.
IV. Any individual knowingly testifying falsely under oath or making a false affirmation, as to any matter material to any such examination, investigation or hearing, shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of perjury.