[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 39, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 39CFR913.3]



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                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE

 

                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

 

PART 913_PROCEDURES FOR THE ISSUANCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE SUBPOENAS UNDER 

39 U.S.C. 3016--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  913.3  Enforcement.



    (a) In general. Whenever any person, partnership, corporation, 

association, or entity fails to comply with any subpoena duly served 

upon him, the General Counsel may request that the Attorney General seek 

enforcement of the subpoena in the district court of the United States 

for any judicial district in which such person resides, is found, or 

transacts business (or in the case of a person outside the territorial 

jurisdiction of any district court, the district court for the District 

of Columbia), and serve upon such person a petition for an order of such 

court for the enforcement of this part.

    (b) Jurisdiction. Whenever any petition is filed in any district 

court of the United States under this section, such court shall have 

jurisdiction to hear and determine the matter so presented, and to enter 

such order or orders as may be required to carry into effect the 

provisions of this section. Any final order entered shall be subject to 

appeal under section 1291 of title 28, United States Code. Any 

disobedience of any



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final order entered under this section by any court may be punished as 

contempt.