City Code Section
(Amended by Ordinance 190387, effective May 5, 2021.)
- A. The Code Hearings Officer shall issue subpoenas to any party upon showing of general relevance and reasonable scope of the evidence sought. The hearings office may make available a form with the information required to make this showing. Witnesses appearing pursuant to subpoena, other than the parties or officers or employees of the City, shall receive fees and mileage as prescribed by law for witnesses in civil actions. Unless a witness expressly declines payment of fees and mileage, the witness's obligation to appear is contingent on the payment of fees and mileage.
- B. A subpoena may be served by a party, the party's attorney, or any other person who is 18 years of age or older. Service may be accomplished by personal service of a true copy of the subpoena upon the witness or an agent of the witness authorized to receive the subpoena; substituted service by leaving a true copy of the subpoena at a person's dwelling house or usual place of abode with a person over 14 years of age; office service by leaving true copies of the subpoena with a person who is apparently in charge of an office; or service by United States Postal Service mail if the witness consents to this method.
- C. If any person fails to comply with any subpoena so issued or any party or witness refuses to testify on any matters on which the person may be lawfully interrogated, the judge of the Circuit Court of any county, on the application of the Code Hearings Officer, or of a designated representative of the Code Hearings Officer or of the party requesting the issuance of the subpoena, shall compel obedience by proceedings for contempt as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of subpoena issued from such court or a refusal to testify therein.