26-2-102. Issuance of subpoena. The subpoena is issued as follows:
     (1) To require attendance before a court or at the trial of an issue therein, it is issued under the seal of the court before which the attendance is required or in which the issue is pending.
     (2) To require attendance out of the court before a judge, justice, or other officer authorized to administer oaths or take testimony in any matter under the laws of this state, it is issued by the judge, justice, or other officer before whom the attendance is required.
     (3) To require attendance before a commissioner appointed to take testimony by a court of a foreign country, of the United States, of any other state in the United States, or of any other district or county within this state or before any officer or officers empowered by the laws of the United States to take testimony, it may be issued by any judge or justice of the peace in places within his respective jurisdiction, with like power to enforce attendance and, upon certificate of contumacy to said court, to punish contempt of his process as such judge or justice could exercise if the subpoena directed the attendance of the witness before his court in a matter pending therein.

     History: En. Sec. 322, p. 111, Bannack Stat.; en. Sec. 381, p. 212, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 455, p. 127, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 634, p. 204, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 634, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 655, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 3301, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7975, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 10619, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 1986; re-en. Sec. 10619, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, .