---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20705"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "20705"
heading: "Jurisdiction to compel production of records or papers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/20705"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 207 — Federal Election Records"
---

# §20705. Jurisdiction to compel production of records or papers


The United States district court for the district in which a demand is made pursuant to [section 20703 of this title](/usc/52/20703.md), or in which a record or paper so demanded is located, shall have jurisdiction by appropriate process to compel the production of such record or paper.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 305, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1974d of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.