If and in the event at a hearing conducted by the Board pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter that any person shall be guilty of the conduct during the course of the hearing as shall be equivalent to contempt of court, whether civil or criminal, the matter shall be certified to the Circuit Court of the county in which the hearing is held by the Board by petition filed in the Circuit Court on behalf of the Board certifying the facts concerning the matter, and the court shall pass upon the matter as in cases of contempt before the Circuit Court, direct, indirect or criminal and the court shall enter the order pertaining to the contempt as the facts shall disclose and shall subject the person, if found guilty of the contempt, to the penalty as to the court shall seem just and reasonable.
(1980 Code, § 11.613)