The Florida Senate

544.05  Compelling testimony of witnesses.--No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or from producing books, papers, contracts, agreements, and documents on subpoena for the state, or as witness for the state, or on cross-examination for the state, in any prosecution, suit or proceeding, criminal or civil, authorized by or based upon this chapter or growing out of any violation thereof, when such prosecution, suit or proceeding is in the name of the state and prosecuted or carried on by the Department of Legal Affairs or state attorney, for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of her or him, may tend to incriminate the person or subject her or him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no such person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which the person may so testify or produce evidence; provided, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.

History.--s. 5, ch. 4534, 1897; GS 3164; RGS 4990; CGL 7079; ss. 11, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 758, ch. 97-103.