A. If any individual refuses to attend or testify or to produce any books, papers, records, contracts, correspondence or other documents in connection with any examination, hearing or investigation on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture, and is nonetheless, upon written application by a prosecuting attorney, directed by a court of competent jurisdiction in a written order finding that the testimony, or the record, document or other object may be necessary to the public interest and that the person has refused or is likely to refuse to testify or to produce the record, document or other subject on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination, to give such testimony or produce such evidence, he must comply with such direction; but no testimony so given or evidence produced shall be used against him upon any criminal action, investigation or proceedings. However, no such individual so testifying or producing evidence shall be exempt from:
(1) prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him in such testimony, and the testimony or evidence so given or produced shall be admissible against him upon any criminal action, investigation or proceeding concerning such perjury; or
(2) refusal, suspension or revocation of any license, permission or authority conferred pursuant to the Insurance Code.
B. Any such individual may execute, acknowledge and file in the offices of the superintendent and attorney general a statement expressly waiving such immunity or privilege in respect to any transaction, matter or thing specified in such statement, and thereupon the testimony of such individual or such evidence in relation to such transaction, matter or thing may be received or produced before any judge or court, tribunal, grand jury or otherwise; and if such testimony or evidence is so received or produced the individual shall not be entitled to any immunity or privileges on account of the testimony or evidence given or produced.
History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 63; 1993, ch. 320, § 9.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the Insurance Code, see 59A-1-1 NMSA 1978 and notes thereto.
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, rewrote Subsection A.