Section 5
SEC. 5. In order to facilitate the determination of the maximum selling price of any commodity and for the on pose of enforcing the provisions of this Act, the Price Control Office, directly or through such agencies, official and employees of the government it may deputize, shall have the powers: (a) to examine bills of lading, bills of sales, invoices, books, records and other pertinent documents owned or in the possession of any importer, producer manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer, and for this purpose they may, by subpoena, or subpoena duces tecum, require any person to appear and testify or to appear and produce books, records and other documents, or both; and (b) upon the issuance of a search warrant, by a competent court, to inspect premises, bodegas or storerooms where stocks of controlled commodities or the documents and papers above referred to are kept; and in the case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpoena or subpoena duces tecum issued to any such person, the municipal court or the justice of the peace court of the city or municipality in which such importer, wholesaler, retailer, manufacturer or producer is found or resides or transacts business, upon application, and after notice to any such person and hearing, shall have jurisdiction to issue an order requiring such person to appear and give testimony or to appear ana produce books, records, and other writings, or both, and any failure to obey such order of the court shall be punished by such court as contempt thereof, with a fine of not more than six hundred pesos or imprisonment o not more than six months, or both.