§ 34. [Investigation procedure.]

In conducting such investigations the council, or any committee thereof or any person duly authorized by the council to do so, may compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers and other evidence, and for that purpose may issue subpoenas or attachments which shall be signed by the presiding officer of the council or the chairperson of such committee, as the case may be, which may be served and executed by any officer authorized by law to serve subpoenas and other process. If any witness shall refuse to testify to any facts within the witness' knowledge or to produce any papers or books in the witness' possession, or under the witness' control, relating to the matter under inquiry, before the council, or any such committee, the council shall have the power to cause the witness to be punished as for contempt. No witness shall be excused from testifying regarding the witness' knowledge of the matter under investigation in any such inquiry, but such testimony shall not be used against the witness in any criminal prosecution except for perjury committed upon such inquiry.

(Amended 11-3-98; Ord. No. 1749-2014, 7-21-2014)