Chap. 253.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 6555 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to the exemption from certain processes of law of the
wages or salary of laboring persons under certain circumstances. {S 39]

Approved March 16, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, That section sixty-five hundred fifty-five of the Code of
Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 6555. What wages or salary of a laboring man resident
in this State are exempt; etc—In addition to the estate, not
exceeding the value of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) and the
other property, which every householder or head of a family
residing in this State shall be entitled to hold exempt, as provided
in the preceding sections of this chapter, wages or salary 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 per centum of such wages
or salary, provided, however, that in no case shall such exemption
be less than fifty dollars ($50.00) per month, nor more than one hun-
dred dollars ($100.00) per month; and the wages or salary of a
laboring man residing in this State who is not a householder or
head of a family shall be so exempt to the extent of fifty per
centum (50%) of the exemption herein provided for a laboring
man who is a householder or head of a family; and every assign-
ment, sale, transfer, pledge or mortgage of the wages or salary of
a laboring man which is so exempted, to the extent of the exemp-
tion provided for by this section, shall be void and unenforceable by
any process of law.