- (a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b)
- (1) “Assignment” includes every transfer, sale, pledge, mortgage, or hypothecation, however made or attempted, of the wages of a person or any interest in them.
- (2) “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.
- (c) “County” includes Baltimore City.
- (d) “Court” means the District Court for the county where an assignor resides.
- (e) “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.
- (f) “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.
Added by Acts 1975, c. 49, § 3, eff. July 1, 1975. Amended by Acts 2010, c. 611, § 2, eff. June 1, 2010.
Formerly Art. 8, §§ 6, 9.