§1310.15. Employer's records and books; subject to inspection; self-incriminating evidence
All books, records, and payrolls of the employers showing or reflecting in any way upon the amount of wage expenditures of such employers shall always be open for inspection by the assistant secretary or any other authorized auditor, accountant, or inspector for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the wage expenditure and number of men employed and such other information as may be necessary for the purposes and uses of the assistant secretary in the administration of the Workers' Compensation Act. No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book, record, or payroll in any investigation or inquiry, by or upon any hearing before the workers' compensation judge, when ordered to do so by the workers' compensation judge, upon the ground that the testimony, payroll, or other competent evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture; but no person shall be prosecuted, punished, or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he shall have under oath, by order of the workers' compensation judge, testified to or produced documentary evidence of, provided however, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him in his testimony.
Acts 1988, No. 938, §2, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 1989, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 1997, No. 88, §1, eff. June 11, 1997.
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