CHAPTER 217

An Act to amend and reenact § 34-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to what wages or salary of laboring man exempt from gar-
nishment and other process.

[H 460]

Approved March 7, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 34-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 34-29. In addition to the estate, not exceeding the value of two
thousand dollars 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 chapters of this title, wages or salary owing or
to be owing to a laboring man who is a householder or head of a family,
whether a resident or nonresident of this State, shall be exempt from dis-
tress, 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 one hundred dollars per month nor more than
one hundred fifty dollars per month; and the wages or salary of a labor-
ing man residing * within or without this State who is not a householder
or head of a family shall be so exempt to the extent of fifty per centum
of the exemption herein provided for a laboring man who is a householder
or head of a family; and every assignment, sale, transfer, pledge or mort-
gage of the wages or salary of a laboring man which is so exempted, to the
extent of the exemption provided for by this section, shall be void and un-
enforceable by any process of law. In determining the exemption to which
the employee is entitled, the employer may until otherwise ordered by the
court rely upon the information contained in the employee’s withholding
exemption certificate filed by the employee for federal income tax purposes
and any person showing more than one exemption thereon shall be consid-
ered by him to be a householder or head of a family. The exemption grant-
ed under this section to a laboring man who is a householder or head of a
family shall extend to any person under an order of a court to support a
parent, child, husband or wife and may be claimed by him or on his behalf
by any agency of government or person in interest.