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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="8-307" title_number="8" title_name="Landlord and Tenant" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Distress for Rent">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The following are exempt from distress:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Hand-powered and operated tools used by a tenant in the tenant’s occupation or livelihood;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Law books of an attorney;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Hand-operated instruments of a physician;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Medical books of a physician;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Files and professional records of an attorney or physician; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The prior perfected security interest in all goods in which the tenant has an interest.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The landlord in the landlord’s petition shall certify as to the existence of a perfected security interest in any goods of the tenant. If the security interest was perfected prior to the levy under the distraint, the landlord either shall release the property from the distraint proceedings or pay to the holder of the security interest the balance due under the security interest. If the landlord pays the balance, it becomes a part of the costs in the distraint proceedings. However, the holder of the security interest, on demand by the landlord, shall give a true written statement of the balance due under the security interest, and, if the landlord pays the balance, the holder shall assign or release the security interest to the landlord.</text>
  </level>
</section>
