2018 Maryland Code
Commercial Law
Title 15 - Debt Collection -- Special Provisions
Subtitle 3 - Assignment of Wages
§ 15-301. Definitions
(a) In general. -- In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) Assignment. --
(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. -- "County" includes Baltimore City.
(d) Court. -- "Court" means the District Court for the county where an assignor resides.
(e) Person. -- "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. -- "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.