Sec. 25. Witnesses before council and committees—
how attendance secured.
The Council, or any committee or officer of the City, when
specially authorized thereto by the Council, shall have the power
to require the attendance of any person as a witness and the
production by any person of all proper books and papers, when,
in any investigation by such body, such attendance and investigation
is necessary and proper. Summons to attend as a witness
or to produce books and papers shall be in writing, signed
by the presiding officer of the Council, and shall be served by a
member of the police force in the same manner as a process to
commence an action at law. Such witnesses shall be sworn by
the officer presiding at the investigation, and shall be liable to
the penalties for perjury or false testimony at such investigation.
Any person failing or refusing to obey such summons, and refusing
to testify, or produce such books or papers, may be summoned
before the Civil and Police Justice and upon failure to
give satisfactory excuse shall be fined in a sum of not less than
ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. A person found guilty
under this section, and fined shall have a right of appeal to the
Corporation Court of the City.
