Attorney general may request court order to produce evidentiary material
If someone ignores a legal demand from the attorney general to hand over documents or information, the attorney general can go to court to force that person to comply. The court case is filed in the county where that person lives or does business. If the person does business in more than one county, the case goes where their main place of business is. A judge can then order the person to comply. If the person still refuses to follow the court's final order, they can be punished for contempt of court.
407.090. may request to produce evidentiary — request filed where. — Whenever any person fails to comply with any duly upon him under section 407.040 or whenever satisfactory copying or reproduction of any such material cannot be done and such person refuses to surrender such material, the attorney general, through such officers or attorneys as he may , may file, in the of a county or judicial in which such person resides, is found, or transacts business, and serve upon such person a for an of such court for the of such civil investigative demand; except that, if such person transacts business in more than one county or judicial district such petition shall be filed in the county or judicial district in which such person maintains his , or in such other county or judicial district as may be agreed upon by the parties to such petition. Whenever any petition is filed in the trial court of general jurisdiction of a county or judicial district under this section, such court shall have to hear and determine the matter so presented, and to enter such order or orders as may be required to carry into effect the of section 407.040. Any so entered shall be subject to to the state supreme court. Any disobedience of any final order entered under this section by any court shall be punished as a thereof.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1967 p. 607 § 9, A.L. 1985 H.B. 96, et al.) Effective 5-31-85
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