Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17

sessions of said commission, and to answer
any proper questions to produce and ex-
hibit to said commission the books, &C
counts or papers of any company, receiver,
trustee or lessee, owning or operating any
plant or line so subject to supervision,
which in any way relate to or contain
entries, data or memoranda, concerning
any transaction within this state or with
any person residing or having a place of
business within this state, or of any other
person when their examination is pertinent
to the matters under consideration. Wit
neSSeS duly SubpOenaed who refuse or neg
lect to appear or who refuse to testify,
shall be subject to the provisions and
penalties of the statutes applicable to wit
neSses who neglect or refuse to obey sub
poenaS to appear and testify before courts
at law and in equity.
SEC. 4. The members of said COM
mission and any person in its employ
ana by ITS direction; may, during business
hours, enter the Offices plants exchanges
and stations, or upon the land or lines of
any company within this state subject
to the provisions of this act.
ing a plant, line or property, subject to
supervision under this act shall, at all
times, on request, furnish said commission
all information required by it concerning
the condition, operation management,
expense OF maintenance and operation,
cost of production rates charged for ser
vice or for product, contracts, obligations
and financial standing of such company.
by law, give publicity to such information
so obtained by it except as it may be neces-
sary in reports to the general assembly
or in judicial proceedings.
SEC. 6. A company operating a plant
Or line subject to supervision under this
act that refuses said commission access
to its books accounts or papers, SO far as
may be necessary under the provisions of
this act, or fails or refuses to furnish any
returns, reports or Information lawfully
required by said commission, or wilfully
hinderS, delays or obStructs said commits
sion in the discharge of the duties imposed
upon it, or fails, within reasonable time,
to obey final order or decree of said COM
mission, shall be fined not more than five
thousand dollars nor less than five hun
dred dollars. A person who knowingly,
under oath, makes false return or state
ment, or who knowingly, under oath,
when required by law, gives false infor-
nation to said commission, or who know
ingly testifies falsely in any material mat
ter before said commission, shall be deemed
to have committed perjury and shall be
punished accordingly.
SEC. 7. The superintendent or man
ager OF any line or plant, subject to super
vision under this act, shall Immediately
after its occurrence notify said commission
in writing of any accident within this state
upon such line or plant resulting in loss of
life, or injury to any person which shall
incapacitate him from engaging in his
usual vocations. Said commission shall
inquire into the cause of every such acct
dent, and it, in it's judgment, public in
vestigation is necessary, it shall fix time
and place of holding the same, and there
upon proceed as provided in section 1909
of the Public Statutes relating to inveStiga-
ton of accidents upon railroads.
Sec. s. Complaints concerning any
claimed unlawful action or neglect of
those in the operation or management of
any plant, property or line subject to super
vision under the provisions of this act,
may be made or commenced by the per-
son or corporation that claims to be in
iured or by the attorney general or by