PUBLIC LAW 100-430--SEPT. 13, 1988
102 S T A T 1629
"(b) WITNESS FEES.—Witnesses summoned by a subpoena under this title shall be entitled to the same witness and mileage fees as witnesses in proceedings in United States district courts. Fees payable to a witness summoned by a subpoena issued at the request of a party shall be paid by that party or, where a party is unable to pay the fees, by the Secretary. "(c) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.—(1) Any person who willfully fails or Records. n^lects to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce records, documents, or other evidence, if it is in such person's power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or other lawful order under subsection (a), shall be fined not more than $100,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. "(2) Any person who, with intent thereby to mislead another person in any proceeding under this title— "(A) makes or causes to be made any false entry or statement of fact in any report, account, record, or other document produced pursuant to subpoena or other lawful order under subsection (a); "(B) willfully n^lects or fails to make or to cause to be made full, true, and correct entries in such reports, accounts, records, or other documents; or "(C) willfully mutilates, alters, or by any other means falsifies any documentary evidence; shall be fined not more than $100,000 or imprisoned not more than ^ one year, or both. "ENFORCEBdENT BY SECRETARY "SEC. 812. (a) ELECTION OP JUDICIAL DETERMINATION.—When a
charge is filed under section 810, a complainant, a respondent, or an aggrieved person on whose behalf the complaint was filed, may elect to have the claims asserted in that charge decided in a civil action under subsection (o) in lieu of a hearing under subsection (b). The election must be made not later than 20 days after the receipt by the electing person of service under section 810(h) or, in the case of the Secretary, not later than 20 days after such service. The person making such election shall give notice of doing so to the Secretary and to all other complainants and respondents to whom the charge relates. "01>) AoMi^nsTRATivE LAW JUDGE HEARING IN ABSENCE OF ELECTION.—If an election is not made under subsection (a) with respect to a charge filed under section 810, the Secretary shall provide an opportunity for a hearing on the record with respect to a charge issued under section 810. The Secretary shall del^ate the conduct of a hearing under this section to an administrative law judge appointed under section 3105 of title 5, United States Code. The administrative law judge shall conduct the hearing at a place in the vicinity in which the discriminatory housing practice is alleged to have occurred or to be about to occur. "(c) RIGHTS OF PARTIES.—At a hearing under this section, each party may appear in person, be represented by counsel, present evidence, cross-examine witnesses, and obtain the issuance of subpoenas under section 811. Any aggrieved person may intervene as a party in the proceeding. The Federal Rules of Evidence apply to the presentation of evidence in such hearing as they would in a civil action in a United States district court. "(d) ExPEorrED DISCOVERY
AND HEARING.—(1)
Discovery
in
administrative proceedings under this section shall be conducted as
42 USC 3612.
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