(a) The procedures for the discovery of evidence shall not apply in those cases of administrative adjudication unless they are authorized in the agency’s adjudicatory procedures regulations and authorized by the official who presides [over] the adjudicatory procedure. Notwithstanding the above provisions, the agency’s regulations guarantee to every accused the right to the mechanisms of discovery of evidence for those cases in which the adjudicatory procedure is prompted on the agency’s initiative.\n(b) It may also issue summons for the appearance of witnesses; orders for the production of documents, materials and other objects; and protective orders, pursuant to the Rules of Civil Procedure.\n(c) In case of noncompliance of [with] an order or summons issued under subsection (b) of this section, the agency may present a petition to compel its jurisdiction in the competent Court of First Instance, and it may issue a court order in which it orders the compliance of the person in question under admonition of contempt if he disobeys such order.\nHistory —Aug. 12, 1988, No. 170, § 3.8; Dec. 25, 1995, No. 247, § 3, eff. May 1, 1996.
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