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The Dawson News
Dawson, Terrell County, Georgia
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Georgia's legislature recently enacted amendments to the garnishment law, exempting $125 per day plus 50% of excess wages from garnishment, and a new fraudulent check law criminalizing issuing worthless checks without sufficient funds, punishable as a misdemeanor unless funds are deposited within 30 days.
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THE FULL TEXT OF THE MEASURE RECENTLY ENACTED.
Fraudulent Check Law Makes It Easier to Prosecute People Who Give Worthless Checks.
The new garnishment law passed at the last session of the legislature is of interest to merchants and people generally. Sweeping changes were made in the garnishment law. The fraudulent check law, which is also of much interest to business people, makes it easier to prosecute people who defraud by giving checks that are worthless.
The following are the two laws in full:
Garnishment Law.
Section 5298 of Vol. 1 of the Code (1910), amended to read:
All personal property shall be exempt from the demands and liabilities of garnishment on $125 per day of their daily, weekly or monthly wages and 50 per cent of the excess thereof, whether in the hands of their employers or others. Wages above the exemption herein provided for shall be subject to garnishment, and garnishee in making answer shall state specifically when the wages therein referred to were earned by defendant, and whether same were earned as daily, weekly or monthly wages."
Fraudulent Check Law.
"To be entitled an act declaring it a misdemeanor to draw and utter any check, draft or order where the drawer has not at the time sufficient funds to meet the same, provided such drawer does not deposit with drawee sufficient funds to meet the same within thirty days, providing punishment therefor, and for other purposes.
Section one. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this act any person who shall draw and utter any check, draft or order upon a bank, person, firm or corporation with which such drawer has not at the time sufficient funds to meet such check, draft or order, and shall thereby obtain from another money or other thing of value or induce such person to postpone any remedy he may have against such drawer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 1065 of the code.
"Provided, that if such drawer shall deposit with such drawee of such paper, within thirty days thereafter, sufficient funds to meet such check, draft or order, together with interest which may have accrued, there shall be no prosecution under the provision of this act."
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Recently Enacted At The Last Session Of The Legislature
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The garnishment law amends Section 5298 of Vol. 1 of the Code (1910) to exempt $125 per day of wages plus 50% of excess from garnishment. The fraudulent check law declares it a misdemeanor to issue checks without sufficient funds, punishable under section 1065 of the code, unless funds are deposited within 30 days.