Article 47
20 ILCS 1807/47
in effect(20 ILCS 1807/47) Sec. 47. Article 47. Refusal to appear or testify. (a) Any person not subject to this Code who: (1) has been duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness or to produce books and records before a court-martial or court of inquiry, or before any military or civil officer designated to take a deposition to be read in evidence before such a court; (2) has been duly paid or tendered the fees and mileage of a witness at the rates allowed to witnesses attending a criminal court of this State; and (3) willfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witness or to testify or to produce any evidence which that person may have been legally subpoenaed to produce; may be punished by the military court in the same manner as a criminal court of this State. (b) The fees and mileage of witnesses shall be advanced or paid out of the appropriations for the compensation of witnesses. (Source: P.A. 99-796, eff. 1-1-17.)
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