Texas Finance Code
§ 35.203 — SUBPOENA AUTHORITY
FI § 35.203Title 3. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND BUSINESSES · Part A. BANKS · Ch. 35. ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS · Art. C. UNAUTHORIZED ACTIVITY: INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Statute text
View on source(a)This section applies only to an investigation of an unauthorized activity as provided by Section 35.202 and does not affect the conduct of a contested case under Chapter 2001, Government Code.
(b)The banking commissioner may issue a subpoena to compel the attendance and testimony of a witness or the production of a book, account, record, paper, or correspondence relating to a matter that the banking commissioner has authority to consider or investigate at the department's offices in Austin or at another place the banking commissioner designates.
(c)The subpoena must be signed and issued by the banking commissioner or a deputy banking commissioner.
(d)A person who is required by subpoena to attend a proceeding before the banking commissioner is entitled to receive:
(1)reimbursement for mileage, in the amount provided for travel by a state employee, for traveling to or returning from a proceeding that is more than 25 miles from the witness's residence; and
(2)a fee for each day or part of a day the witness is necessarily present as a witness in an amount equal to the per diem travel allowance of a state employee.
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Legislative history
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 652 (S.B. 1823), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2019.