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Any employer who authorizes, consents or terminates, and any person who threatens to terminate, suspend, reduce the salary, or demote an employee, or who imposes or attempts to impose onerous working conditions upon such person due to the fact that said employee has been summoned to serve, is serving or has served jury duty, or who has been summoned or is bound to appear under penalty of contempt before a judge, court, prosecutor, administrative agency, whether state or federal, both Houses of the Legislature and their Committees, Municipal Legislature and its Committees or any employer who refuses to reinstate said employee when he/she has requested it within forty-eight (48) hours after having ceased to serve as juror or witness, shall incur a misdemeanor.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 299, eff. May 1, 2005.