New Jersey § 2a:81-19

§ 2a:81-19.

If a judge of a court of record in any state which by its laws has made provision

for commanding persons within that state to attend and testify in this state certifies

under the seal of such court that there is a criminal prosecution pending in such

court, or that a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence, that

a person being within this state is a material witness in such prosecution, or grand

jury investigation, and his presence will be required for a specified number of days,

and that same cannot be insured voluntarily, upon presentation of such certificate

to any judge of a court of record in the county in which such person is, such judge

shall fix a time and place for a hearing, and shall make an order directing the witness

to appear at a time and place certain for the hearing. If at a hearing the judge determines that the witness is material and necessary, that

it will not cause undue hardship to the witness to be compelled to attend and testify

in the prosecution or a grand jury investigation in the other state, and that the

laws of the state in which the prosecution is pending, or grand jury investigation

has commenced or is about to commence (and of any other state through which the witness

may be required to pass by ordinary course of travel), will give to him protection

from arrest and the service of civil and criminal process, he shall issue a summons,

with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the witness to attend and testify

in the court where the prosecution is pending, or where a grand jury investigation

has commenced or is about to commence at a time and place specified in the summons. In any such hearing the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all the facts

stated therein. If said certificate recommends that the witness be taken into immediate custody and

delivered to an officer of the requesting state to assure his attendance in the requesting

state, such judge may, in lieu of notification of the hearing, direct that such witness

be forthwith brought before him for said hearing; and the judge at the hearing being

satisfied of the desirability of such custody and delivery, for which determination

the certificate shall be prima facie proof of such desirability may, in lieu of issuing

summons, order that said witness be forthwith taken into custody and delivered to

an officer of the requesting state. If the witness, who is summoned as above provided, after being paid or tendered by

some properly authorized person the sum of 10 cents a mile for each mile by the ordinary

traveled route to and from the court where the prosecution is pending and $5 for each

day, that he is required to travel and attend as a witness, fails without good cause

to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner

provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court

of record in this state.