69-3-208. Effect of failure by utility to cooperate with commission. Any officer, agent, or employee of any public utility shall be subject to the penalty prescribed in 69-3-206 whenever the officer, agent, or employee shall:
     (1) willfully fail or refuse to fill out and return any blanks as required by this chapter;
     (2) willfully fail or refuse to answer any questions therein propounded;
     (3) knowingly or willfully give a false answer to any such questions or evade the answer to such questions, where the fact inquired of is within his knowledge; or
     (4) upon proper demand, willfully fail or refuse to exhibit to any commission or any commissioners or any person also authorized to examine the same, any book, paper, or account of such public utility which is in his possession or under his control.

     History: En. Sec. 23, Ch. 52, L. 1913; re-en. Sec. 3903, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3903, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 70-125.