No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book, document, paper, or account in any investigation or inquiry by, or hearing before, the commission or its representative, when ordered to do so, upon the ground that the testimony or evidence, book, document, paper, or account required may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture. No person shall be prosecuted, punished, or subjected to any forfeiture or penalty for or on account of any act, transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he shall have been compelled, under objection, to testify or produce documentary evidence. No person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him in his testimony.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 3 - Public Utility Commission
Section 301 - Establishment, members, qualifications and chairman
Section 302 - Removal of commissioner
Section 304 - Administrative law judges
Section 305 - Director of operations, secretary, employees and consultants
Section 306 - Office of Trial Staff (Repealed)
Section 307 - Inspectors for enforcement
Section 308 - Bureaus and offices
Section 308.1 - Consumer protection and information
Section 308.2 - Other bureaus, offices and positions
Section 309 - Oaths and subpoenas
Section 312 - Privilege and immunity
Section 313 - Joint hearings and investigations; reciprocity
Section 314 - Investigation of interstate rates, facilities and service
Section 316 - Effect of commission action
Section 317 - Fees for services rendered by commission
Section 318 - Commission to cooperate with other departments
Section 320 - Annual appropriations
Section 331 - Powers of commission and administrative law judges
Section 332 - Procedures in general
Section 333 - Prehearing procedures