Senate Bill No. 70--Committee on Commerce and Labor CHAPTER........ AN ACT relating to professions; providing that an occupational licensing board is not required to employ certain persons or to use certain facilities; authorizing the board of examiners for marriage and family therapists to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Title 54 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new chapter to consist of the provisions set forth as section 2 of this act. Sec. 2. No board or commission which issues occupational or professional licenses, certificates or permits pursuant to this Title may be required to: 1. Employ a person who is an employee of the state; or 2. Use any building, structure, institution or other facility of the state in the discharge of its duties imposed pursuant to the provisions of this Title. Sec. 3. Chapter 641A of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:\ 1. The board may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers. 2. The district court, in and for the county in which any hearing is held, may compel the attendance of witnesses, the giving of testimony and the production of books and papers as required by any subpoena issued by the board. 3. If any witness refuses to attend or testify or produce any books or papers required by a subpoena, the board may file a petition with the district court, setting forth that: (a) Notice has been given of the time and place for the attendance of the witness or the production of the books or papers; (b) The witness has been subpoenaed in the manner prescribed by this chapter; (c) The witness has failed or refused to attend or produce the books or papers required by the subpoena before the board in the cause or proceeding named in the subpoena, or has refused to answer questions propounded to him in the course of the hearing; and (d) The board therefore requests an order of the court compelling the witness to attend and testify or produce the books or papers before the board. 4. The court, upon such a petition, shall enter an order directing the witness to appear before the court at a time and place fixed by the court in the order, and then and there to show cause why he has not attended or testified or produced the books or papers before the board. The time may not be more than 10 days after the date of the order. A certified copy of the order must be served upon the witness. 5. If the court determines that the subpoena was regularly issued by the board, the court shall thereupon enter an order that the witness appear before the board at the time and place fixed in the order, and testify or produce the required books or papers. Failure to obey the order is a contempt of the court which issued it.\\ -30-