Chap. 356.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6555 of the Code of
Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to exemptions of wages of a
laboring man who is a householder or head of a family, so as to increase
the amount of such exemptions in certain cases. | [H B 386]

Approved March 31, 1938
1. Be it enacted by the General ‘Assembly of Virginia, That section

sixty-five hundred and fifty-five of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 6555. In addition to the estate, not exceeding the value
of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars and the other property, which
every householder or head of a family residing in this Commonwealth
shall be entitled to hold exempt, as provided in the preceding sections
of this chapter, wages owing or to be owing to a laboring man who
is a householder or head of a family, shall be exempt from distress,
levy, garnishment or other process to the extent of seventy-five (75%)
per centum of such wages, provided, however, that in no case shall such
exemption be less than fifty ($50.00) dollars per month nor more than
seventy-five ($75.00) dollars per month; and every assignment, sale,
transfer, pledge or mortgage of the salary of a laboring man, who is a
householder or head of a family, to the extent the same is declared
exempt by this section, shall be void and unenforceable by any process
of law.