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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="3-217" title_number="3" title_name="Courts of General Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction/special Causes of Action" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Arbitration and Award">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The arbitrators may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and for the production of books, records, documents, and other evidence, and have the power to administer oaths.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>At the arbitration hearing a witness shall be sworn:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the request of a party; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At the request of a majority of the arbitrators.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A party or the arbitrators may file a petition with a court to enforce a subpoena.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A subpoena shall be enforced in the manner provided by law or rule for the enforcement of subpoenas in a civil action.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>All provisions of law which compel a person under subpoena to testify apply to proceedings under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
