• Current through October 23, 2012

In case of the violation of any injunction granted under the provisions of § 22-2714, the court, or, in vacation, a judge thereof, may summarily try and punish the offender. The proceedings shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court an information, under oath, setting out the alleged facts constituting such violation, upon which the court or judge shall cause a warrant to issue, under which the defendant shall be arrested. The trial may be had upon affidavits, or either party may at any stage of the proceedings demand the production and oral examination of the witnesses. A party found guilty of contempt, under the provisions of this section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the District Jail not less than three nor more than 6 months or by both fine and imprisonment.

(Feb. 7, 1914, 38 Stat. 281, ch. 16, § 4.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 22-2716.

1973 Ed., § 22-2716.