1. To be properly issued, a legislative subpoena must: (a) Be addressed to the witness; (b) Describe the nature of the legislative proceedings for which the legislative subpoena is being issued; (c) Require the attendance and testimony of the witness at a definite time and place fixed in the legislative subpoena or require the production of the documentary evidence at a definite time and place fixed in the legislative subpoena, or both; (d) State particular reasons why the attendance and testimony of the witness or the production of the documentary evidence is pertinent to legislative business or possible future legislative action; and (e) Be signed, as applicable, by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly or the chair of the committee who issued the legislative subpoena. 2. A legislative subpoena may be served by any person who is 18 years of age or older. 3. If a legislative subpoena is properly issued to and served on a witness pursuant to this section: (a) The legislative subpoena has the same legal force and effect as a subpoena or order issued by the district court; and (b) The witness shall comply with the provisions of the legislative subpoena in the same islative subpoena has the same legal force and effect as a subpoena or order issued by the district court; and (b) The witness shall comply with the provisions of the legislative subpoena in the same manner as a subpoena or order issued by the district court. (Added to NRS by 1973, 298; A 2011, 3208; 2013, 3742)
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