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PUBLIC LAW 88-241-DEC. 23, 1963

(b) The term "wages" does not include any amount paid or payable to an employee who is not a resident of the District of Columbia as remuneration for services performed within the District of Columbia, if the period for which the employee is engaged by the employer to perform such services within the District of Columbia is less than 15 consecutive days' duration; and any such amount shall be subject to attachment without regard to this subchapter. §16-572. Attachment of wages; percentage limitations; priority of attachments Notwithstanding any other provision of subchapter II of this chapter, where an attachment is levied upon wages due a judgment debtor from an employer-garnishee, the 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) 60 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. The levy shall be a continuing levy until the judgment, interest, and costs thereof are fully satisfied and paid, and in no event may 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 may 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 employergarnishee, the attachment first delivered to the marshal shall have priority, and all subsequent attachments shall be satisfied in the order of priority set forth in section 16-507. §l&-573. Employer's duty to withhold and make payments; percentage (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an employer upon whom an attachment is served, and who: (1) at the time is indebted for wages to an employee who is the judgment debtor named in the attachment; or (2) becomes so indebted to the judgment debtor in the future— shall, while the attachment remains a lien upon such indebtedness, withhold and pay to the judgment creditor, or his legal representative, within 15 days after the close of the last pay period of the judgment debtor ending in each calendar month, that percentage of the gross wages {)ayable 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 the attachment is wholly satisfied. (b) Upon written notice of any court proceeding attacking the 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 the proceedings.

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