CHAPTER 417

An Act to amend and reenact § 34-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to exemption of wages or salary.

[H 444]
Approved March 29, 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 pro-
vided 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, 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 one hundred dollars per month
nor more than one hundred fifty dollars per month; provided such mini-
mum and maximum exemptions shall be increased by fifteen dollars per
month for each dependent child of such householder or head of a family;
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 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 mortgage 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 unenforceable by any process of law. In determining the exemp-
tion 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 considered by him to be a householder or head of a family. The
exemption granted under this section to a laboring man who is a house-
holder 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.