---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1974"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1974"
heading: "Actions by United States; subpenas for witnesses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1974"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Tying Arrangements"
---

# §1974. Actions by United States; subpenas for witnesses


In any action brought by or on behalf of the United States under [section 1972 of this title](/usc/12/1972.md), subpenas for witnesses may run into any district, but no writ of subpena may issue for witnesses living out of the district in which the court is held at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding the same without the prior permission of the trial court upon proper application and cause shown.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–607, title I, § 106(d), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1767.)