Tennessee Code 3-3-110 – Offenses constituting contempt
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 3-3-110
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Committee: as used in this chapter , except when more particularly provided in this chapter, includes:
(1) A committee appointed by either the house of representatives or the senate. See Tennessee Code 3-3-101 - 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.
- Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
Any person who, after having been served with a subpoena to appear as provided in § 3-3-109, fails to appear and makes willful default in that regard, or who, having appeared, willfully refuses to answer any question, propounded by any member of the committee or any legal counsel of such committee acting in its presence and by its permission, pertinent to the matter under investigation, or willfully refuses to produce any papers, documents, records, or other items of evidence, deemed to be material by any such body or committee, in any such pending inquiry or investigation, commits contempt in impeding the progress of such investigation and the proper functioning of such body or committee then engaged in such investigation.