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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="15-301" title_number="15" title_name="Debt Collection -- Special Provisions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Assignment of Wages">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Assignment” includes every transfer, sale, pledge, mortgage, or hypothecation, however made or attempted, of the wages of a person or any interest in them.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Assignment” does not include an authorization by a borrower or his guarantor or surety for payroll deductions to repay a loan made by a state or federally chartered credit union to a credit union member.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“County” includes Baltimore City.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Court” means the District Court for the county where an assignor resides.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Person” includes an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Wages” means all remuneration paid to any employee for his employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash.</text>
  </level>
</section>
