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1999 Florida Statutes

424.05  Investigations by department.--The Department of Community Affairs shall have power to investigate into the affairs of limited dividend housing companies incorporated under this chapter and into the dealings, transactions, or relationships of such companies with other persons. Any of the investigations provided for in this chapter may be conducted by the department. The department may administer oaths, take affidavits, and make personal inspections of all places to which its duties relate. The department may subpoena and require the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers relating to the investigations and inquiries authorized in this chapter, examine them in relation to any matter it has power to investigate, and issue commissions for the examination of witnesses who are out of the state, unable to attend before the department, or excused from attendance.

History.--s. 5, ch. 16028, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 4151(136); ss. 18, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 56, ch. 81-167; s. 59, ch. 83-55.