Civil court powers enable authorities to order discovery, attendance and record production, with proceedings treated as judicial. The authority and the appellate authority have powers of a civil court for discovery and inspection, enforcing attendance and oath examination, issuing commissions, and compelling production of books and records. They are deemed a civil court for a specified prosecutorial sanction purpose but not for a named chapter of the criminal procedure code, and every proceeding before them is treated as judicial proceedings for application of certain penal provisions.