(a) If the presiding officer of either house of the General Assembly has reasonable grounds to believe that any person or persons are then committing an unlawful act or are about to do so, which act is interfering, or will interfere, with any proceedings or other business of the General Assembly, either house thereof or any committee of the General Assembly or either house thereof, he may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an order directing any person or persons to cease and desist from the commission of such unlawful act or restraining such person or persons from committing such an act in the future.
(b) Such petition shall be verified and shall set forth the facts upon which it is based. Either house may empower the presiding officer thereof to designate one or more members or officers of such house to make such a petition on his behalf. Any such designation shall be filed with the clerk of such house and, if a petition is made by any person named in such designation, a certified copy of such designation shall be submitted to the court, together with the petition.
(c) If a court to which such a petition is presented is satisfied that the petition sets forth a prima facie case for the granting of the relief requested and that interference with the proceedings or other business of the General Assembly may occur unless such relief is granted, the court may forthwith grant a temporary injunction granting the relief requested, in whole or in part, pending the ultimate determination of the matter after due notice and hearing. A copy of such temporary order and of the petition upon which it is based, together with notice of the date and place of a hearing to be held thereon, shall be given to such persons within such time and in such manner as the court shall direct.
(d) Such temporary injunction and any preliminary or permanent injunction which thereafter may be granted on the petition following a hearing thereon shall be enforceable by contempt proceedings, or other enforcement proceedings, in the same manner as other orders of such court.
(e) Except as otherwise specified herein, all of the provisions of law applicable to the granting of injunctive relief by the court to which a petition hereunder is presented shall apply to proceedings instituted under this section.
(P.A. 73-516, S. 6.)
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