Every court shall have power: (1) To preserve and enforce order in its immediate presence and as near thereto as is necessary to prevent interruption, disturbance or hindrance to its proceedings; (2) To enforce order before a person or body empowered to conduct a judicial investigation under its authority; (3) To compel obedience to its judgments, orders and process and to orders of a judge out of court, in an action or proceeding therein; (4) To control, in furtherance of justice, the conduct of its officers and all other persons connected with a judicial proceeding before it in every matter appertaining thereto; (5) To administer oaths in an action or proceeding pending therein and in all other cases where it may be necessary in the exercise of its powers and duties; and (6) To amend and control its process and orders so as to make them conformable to law and justice.
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