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Public Law 86-130 AN ACT To amend the code of law for the District of Columbia by modifying the provisions relating to the attachment and garnishment of wages, salaries, and commissions of judgment debtors, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended, is amended by inserting after section 1104 thereof a new section as follows: "SEC. 1104A. ATTACHMENT OF WAGES.— (a) Notwithstanding any

August 4, 1959 [H. R. 836]

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other provision of this chapter, where an attachment is levied upon wages due a judgment debtor from an employer-garnishee, such attachment shall become a lien and a continuing levy upon the gross wages due or to become due to the judgment debtor for the amount specified in the attachment to the extent of (1) 10 per centum of so much of the gross wages as does not exceed $200 due or to become due to the judgment debtor from the employer-garnishee for the pay period or periods ending in any calendar month, plus (2) 20 per centum of so much of the gross wages as exceeds $200 but does not exceed $500 due or to become due to the judgment debtor from the employer-garnishee for the pay period or periods ending in any calendar month, plus (3) 50 per centum of so much of the gross wages as exceeds $500 due or to become due to the judgment debtor from the employer-garnishee for the pay period or periods ending in any calendar month. Such levy shall be a continuing levy until the judgment, interest, and costs thereof are fully satisfied and paid, and in no event shall moneys be withheld, by the employer-garnishee from the judgment debtor, in amounts greater than those prescribed by this section. Only one attachment upon the wages of a judgment debtor shall be satisfied at one time. Where more than one attachment is issued upon the wages of the same judgment debtor and served upon the same employer-garnishee, the attachment first delivered to the marshal shall have priority, and all subsequent attachments shall be satisfied in the order of priority set D. C. Code 16forth in section 452 of this Act. 308. "(b) I t shall be the duty and responsibility of any employer upon E m p l o y e r paywhom an attachment is served, and who at such time is indebted for mentst otos. iudgment credi r wages to an employee who is the judgment debtor named in such attachment, or who becomes so indebted to such judgment debtor in the future and while such attachment remains a lien upon such indebtedness, to withhold and pay to the judgment creditor, or his legal representative, within fifteen days after the close of the last pay period of the judgment debtor ending in each calendar month, that percentage of the gross wages payable to the judgment debtor for the pay period or periods ending in such calendar month to which the judgment creditor is entitled under the terms of this section until such attachment is wholly satisfied: Provided, That upon written notice of any court proceeding attacking such attachment or the judgment on which it is based, the employer shall make no further payments to the judgment creditor or his legal representative until receipt of an order of court terminating such proceedings. Any payments made by an employer-garnishee in conformity with this subsection shall be a discharge of the liability of the employer to the judgment debtor to the extent of such payment. Under this subsection the employergarnishee shall not withhold or pay over more than 10 per centum of the gross wages payable to the judgment debtor for any pay period ending in any calendar month until the total amount of gross wages

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