---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 7132"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "7132"
heading: "Subpenas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/7132"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart F — Labor-Management and Employee Relations"
  - "Chapter 71 — Labor-Management Relations"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administrative and Other Provisions"
---

# §7132. Subpenas

- (a) Any [member](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) of the [Authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6), the General Counsel, or the [Panel](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-7), any administrative law judge appointed by the [Authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) under [section 3105 of this title](/usc/5/3105.md), and any [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) of the [Authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) designated by the [Authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) may—
  - (1) issue subpenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary or other evidence from any place in the [United States](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-18); and
  - (2) administer oaths, take or order the taking of depositions, order responses to written interrogatories, examine witnesses, and receive evidence.

  No subpena shall be issued under this section which requires the disclosure of intramanagement guidance, advice, counsel, or [training](/usc/5/4101.md?p=4) within an [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) or between an [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) and the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management.

- (b) In the case of contumacy or failure to obey a subpena issued under [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1) of this section, the [United States](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-18) district [court](/usc/5/8401.md?p=7) for the judicial district in which the [person](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-1) to whom the subpena is addressed resides or is served may issue an order requiring such [person](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-1) to appear at any designated place to testify or to produce documentary or other evidence. Any failure to obey the order of the [court](/usc/5/8401.md?p=7) may be punished by the [court](/usc/5/8401.md?p=7) as a contempt thereof.
- (c) Witnesses (whether appearing voluntarily or under subpena) shall be paid the same fee and mileage allowances which are paid subpenaed witnesses in the [courts](/usc/5/8401.md?p=7) of the [United States](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-18).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title VII, § 701, Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1214.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title.