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(235 ILCS 5/8-6) (from Ch. 43, par. 163b)
Sec. 8-6.
The Department, or any officer or employee designated in writing
by the Director thereof, for the purpose of administering and enforcing the
provisions of this Act, may hold investigations and hearings concerning any
matters covered by this Act. In holding or conducting any hearing or
investigation authorized under this Act, the Department or any officer or
employee of the Department designated, in writing, by the Director thereof,
may examine any books, papers, records or memoranda bearing upon the
manufacture, importation, sale or use of alcoholic liquors by any licensee,
and may require the attendance of such licensee or of any officer, agent or
employee of such licensee, or of any person having knowledge of such facts,
and may take testimony and require proof for its information. In the
conduct of any investigation or hearing, neither the Department nor any
officer or employee thereof shall be bound by the technical rules of
evidence, and no informality in any proceeding, or in the manner of taking
testimony, shall invalidate any assessment, order, decision, rule or
regulation made or approved or confirmed by the Department. The Director of
Revenue or any duly designated officer or employee of the Department shall
have power to administer oaths to such persons; and the Department shall
have the power to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum, and the
Department, or any other party to a proceeding pending before the
Department, may apply to the circuit court to compel the attendance
and testimony of witnesses and
the production of books, papers, records and memoranda, by an attachment for
contempt as provided for such purposes in civil cases.
The Department or any officer or employee thereof, or any party in an
investigation or hearing before the Department, may cause the depositions
of witnesses within the State to be taken in the manner prescribed by law
for like depositions in civil actions in courts of this State, and to that
end compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers,
records and memoranda.
The books, papers, records and memoranda of the Department, or parts
thereof, may be proved in any hearing, investigation or judicial
proceeding by a reproduced copy thereof under the certificate of the Director
of Revenue. Such reproduced copy shall, without further proof, be admitted into
evidence before the Department or in any judicial proceeding.
(Source: P.A. 83-334.)
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