Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXV. Business and Financial Institutions § 304.2-340.Witnesses and evidence

(1) The commissioner or an authorized designee conducting a hearing, examination, or investigation by his or her authority shall have power to subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, administer oaths, examine any person under oath relative to the subject of the hearing, examination, or investigation, and to compel any person to subscribe to his or her testimony after it has been correctly reduced to writing, and, in connection therewith, to require the production of any books, papers, records, correspondence, or other documents which the commissioner deems relevant to the inquiry.

(2) A subpoena issued pursuant to this section shall have the same force and effect as if issued from a court of record.

(3) A subpoena issued pursuant to this section shall be served in the same manner as if issued from a court of record, except a subpoena may be served upon any person holding a license or a certificate of authority from the commissioner or upon the employee of the person or entity in the same manner as other orders and notices are served, as provided in KRS 304.2-120.

(4) If any individual or licensee refuses to comply with a subpoena or to testify as to any matter concerning which the individual or licensee may be lawfully interrogated:

(5) Witness fees and mileage, if claimed, shall be allowed the same as for testimony in a Circuit Court, but no officer, director, agent or employee of an insurer or person being examined or investigated shall be entitled to witness or mileage fees.

(6) Any individual willfully testifying falsely under oath as to any material to any examination, investigation, or hearing shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of perjury.