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ever, that no witness subpoenaed at the instance of parties other than the board shall be entitled to compensation from the state for attendance or travel, unless the board shall certify that his testimony was material to the matter investigated. If a person subpoenaed to attend before the board, or a member thereof, fails to obey the command of such subpoena without reasonable cause, or if a person in attendance before the board, or a member, thereof, refuses, without lawful cause, to be examined or to answer a legal or pertinent question, or to produce a book or paper, when ordered so to do by the board, or any member thereof, the board or such member thereof may apply to the supreme court or any justice thereof, who shall have the power of the court for that purpose, upon proof, by affidavit of the facts, for an order returnable in not less than two nor more than ten days, directing such person to show cause before the court, or the justice thereof who made the order, or to any other justice, why he should not comply with the subpoena or order of the board; upon the return of such order the court or justice before whom the matter shall come on for hearing, shall examine under oath such person whose testimony may be relevant, and such person shall be given an opportunity to be heard, and if the court or justice shall determine that such person refused without legal excuse to obey the command of such subpœna, or to be examined, or to answer a legal or pertinent question, or to produce a book or a paper which he was ordered to produce, said court or justice may order said person to comply forthwith with the subpœna or order of the board, and any failure to obey such order of the court or justice may be punished by said court or justice as a contempt of said supreme court.

Depositions.

28. The board may, in any investigation or hearing, by its order in writing, cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in such manner as it may, by rule, prescribe.

Witnesses compelled to answer: immunity in certain

cases.

29. No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book, document or paper in any investigation or inquiry by or upon the hearing before said board or any member thereof, when ordered so to do by the board or any member thereof, upon the ground that the testimony or evidence, book, document or paper required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted, punished or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction, matter or thing concerning which he shall, under oath, have testified or produced documentary evidence; provided, however, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him in his testimony. Nothing herein contained is intended to give, or shall be construed in any manner giving, to any corporation immunity of any kind. No member or employee of the board shall be required to give testimony in any civil suit to which the board is not a party, with regard to information obtained by him in the discharge of his official duty.

Certified copies of records as evidence; fees for certifying.

30. Copies of all official documents and orders filed or deposited in the office of the board, certified by a

member of the board, or by the secretary to be true copies of the originals, under the official seal of the board, shall be evidence in like manner as the originals in all courts of this state, and the board may charge and collect for such copies ten cents for each folio; the fees so collected shall be paid into the treasury of the state.

Re-hearings, etc.

31. The board, at any time, may order a re-hearing and extend, revoke or modify any order made by it. Service of orders of board; when to be operative.

32. Every order made by the board shall be served upon the person or public utility, as herein defined, affected thereby, within ten days from the time said order is filed, by personally delivering or by mailing a certified copy thereof, in a sealed package, with postage prepaid, to the person to be affected thereby, or in case of a public utility, to any officer or agent thereof, upon whom a summons may be served in accordance with the provisions of the law of this state. All orders of the board to continue service or rates in effect at the time said order is made shall be immediately operative; all other orders shall become effective upon the date specified therein, which shall be at least twenty days after the date of said order.

Non-compliance with order; penalty.

33. In default of compliance with any order of the board when the same shall become effective the person or public utility affected thereby shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars per day for every day during which such default continues, to be recovered in an action of debt in the name of the state, and

observance of the orders of the board may be enforced by mandamus or injunction in appropriate cases, or by suit in equity to compel the specific performance of the order or orders so made, or of the duties imposed by law upon such public utility.

Violation of act by individual a misdemeanor.

34. Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully perform, commit or do, or participate in performing, committing or doing, or who shall knowingly and wilfully cause, participate or join with others in causing any public utility corporation or company to do, perform or commit, or who shall advise, solicit, persuade, or knowingly and wilfully instruct, direct or order any officer, agent or employee of any public utility corporation or company to perform, commit or do any act or thing forbidden or prohibited by this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Neglect to perform duties required by act a misde

meanor.

35. Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully neglect, fail or omit to do or perform, or who shall knowingly and wilfully cause or join or participate with others in causing any public utility corporation. or company to neglect, fail or omit to do or perform, or who shall advise, solicit or persuade, or knowingly and wilfully instruct, direct or order any officer, agent or employee of any public utility corporation or company to neglect, fail or omit to do any act or thing required to be done by this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Violations by public utilities a misdemeanor.

36. Any public utility corporation which shall perform, commit or do any act or thing hereby prohibited

or forbidden, or which shall neglect, fail or omit to do or perform any act or thing hereby required to be done or performed by it, shall be guilty of a misde

meanor.

This act not to affect right of action under other laws. 37. This act shall not have the effect to release or waive any right of action by the board or by any person for any right, penalty or forfeiture which may have arisen or which may arise, under any of the laws of this state, and any penalty or forfeiture enforceable under this act shall not be a bar to or affect a recovery for a right, or affect or bar any indictment against any public utility as herein defined, or person or persons operating such public utility, its officers, directors, agents or employees.

Orders of board reviewable by court.

38. Any order made by the board may be reviewed on the application of any person or public utility affected thereby, by certiorari in appropriate cases, or by petition, to the supreme court of the state of New Jersey, within thirty days from the date upon which such order becomes effective, as herein provided; said petition shall be filed with the clerk of the supreme court and a copy thereof served upon the secretary of the board either personally or by leaving same at the office of said board in the city of Trenton. The supreme court is hereby given jurisdiction to review said order of the board, and to set aside such order when it clearly appears that there was no evidence before the board to support reasonably such order, or that the same was without the jurisdiction of the board. The evidence presented to the board, together with the finding of the board and any order issued

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