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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-717" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Claims Procedure, Hearings, and Appeals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If, without reasonable cause, a witness refuses to produce a document or to testify in accordance with an order of the Commission, the Commission may and, on request of a party to the proceeding, shall apply to a circuit court for an order to show cause.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On proof by affidavit that a witness has refused to produce a document or testify in accordance with an order of the Commission, the circuit court shall pass an order, returnable within 2 to 5 days, that directs the witness to show cause why the witness should not be imprisoned.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On return of the order, the circuit court shall conduct a hearing to determine if the witness, without reasonable cause or legal excuse, refused to testify or provide a document in accordance with an order of the Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The circuit court shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>examine the witness under oath; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>give the witness an opportunity to be heard.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the circuit court finds that the witness, without reasonable cause or legal excuse, refused to produce a document or testify in accordance with an order of the Commission, the circuit court may have the witness immediately imprisoned until the witness:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>produces the document or testifies; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is discharged in accordance with law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
