Chap. 201.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6556 of the Code of Virginia,
which said section is in chapter 274 of the said Code on the subject of exemp-
tion of property of householders. [H B 363]

Approved March 23, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixty-five hundred and fifty-six of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows;

Section 6556. If summons in garnishment or a notice of an out-
standing execution issued on a judgment obtained against a laboring
man or woman, who is a householder, or head of a family, be served
on any employer of such person, the execution debtor may, after five
days’ written notice to the execution creditor and to the employer,
apply to the justice issuing such execution or to the court, or judge
thereof in vacation, from whose clerk’s office such execution issued,
as the case may be, to have so much of the wages of said execu-
tion debtor as does not exceed fifty ($50.00) dollars per month de-
clared exempt. Such application shall be informally heard forthwith,
and if it shall appear that the wages, or any part thereof, are ex-
empt, such court, judge, or justice shall so declare and thereupon
issue to the judgment debtor a certificate valid until revoked certi-
fying as follows:

“That the holder hereof has made affidavit that he is a house-
holder or head of a family and this certificate hereby entitles the
holder hereof to receive wages that may be due him or her not ex-
ceeding fifty ($50.00) dollars per month, and this certificate is full
authority for the employer of the holder hereof to pay over to him
or her such wages regardless of any other pending or future garnish-
ment, notice of lien, mortgage, assignment, sale, pledge, levy or any
other legal proceedings. This certificate shall be in force until re-
voked by order of court and it shall be the duty of any employer upon
being presented with this certificate to retain the same in his posses-
sion and pay the holder hereof such wages as will not exceed fifty
($50.00) dollars per month during the life of this certificate.”
The execution debtor to whom such certificate is issued shall pay a
fee of fifty cents for the same.

Any creditors upon having a garnishment issued on a judgment
against the holder of such certificate may give five days’ written no-
tice to be served personally on the employer and the judgment debtor
by any officer authorized by law to serve civil process; that he will
apply to the court in which the garnishment proceeding is pending
to have said certificate revoked, and upon satisfying the said court
that the holder of said certificate is no longer entitled to the ex-
emption allowed thereby, the court shall then revoke the same and
require the holder to-deliver said certificate to the court which shall
cancel the same.