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[CITE: 46USC7705]

 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
                     Subtitle II--Vessels and Seamen
 
      Part E--Merchant Seamen Licenses, Certificates, and Documents
 
                  CHAPTER 77--SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION
 
Sec. 7705. Subpenas and oaths

    (a) An official designated to investigate or preside at a hearing on 
matters that are grounds for suspension or revocation of licenses, 
certificates of registry, and merchant mariners' documents may 
administer oaths and issue subpenas to compel the attendance and 
testimony of witnesses and the production of records or other evidence 
during investigations and at hearings.
    (b) The jurisdictional limits of a subpena issued under this section 
are the same as, and are enforceable in the same manner as, subpenas 
issued under chapter 63 of this title.

(Pub. L. 98-89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 547; Pub. L. 99-36, 
Sec. 1(a)(9)(H), May 15, 1985, 99 Stat. 68.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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          Revised section                Source section (U.S. Code)
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7705..............................  46:239(e)
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    Section 7705 allows officials designated to investigate or preside 
at hearings on matters that are grounds for suspension and revocation 
proceedings to administer oaths and issue subpenas.


                               Amendments

    1985--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-36 substituted ``certificates of 
registry, and merchant mariners' documents'' for ``certificates, and 
documents''.
