State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > New-york > Isc > Article-3 > 305§ 305. Attendance of witnesses; production of documents and records. (a) The superintendent or the person authorized by the superintendent to conduct a hearing or investigation shall have power to subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, administer oaths, examine any person under oath, and to compel any person to subscribe to his testimony after it has been correctly reduced to writing, and in connection therewith to require the production of any books, papers, records, correspondence or other documents which he deems relevant to the inquiry. A subpoena issued under this section shall be regulated by the civil practice law and rules. (b) No insurer, insurance agent, insurance broker or other person subject to the provisions of this chapter whose conduct, condition or practices are being investigated, and no officer, director or employee of any such person, shall be entitled to witness or mileage fees. (c) In addition to the liabilities and punishment prescribed by the civil practice law and rules, any person who, without just cause fails or refuses to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce any books, papers or records in obedience to a subpoena issued by the superintendent or by his authority shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (d) Every licensee who is given a notice of hearing pursuant to this chapter shall upon the service of a notice to produce books and records, when attached to the notice of hearing or mailed subsequently thereto in the same manner as the notice of hearing, pursuant to such notice, produce at the hearing the books, records and documents enumerated therein.
