2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXVI STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS
Chapter 525 Garnishments
Section 525.310. Compensation of state and municipal employees subject to writ of sequestration.

525.310. 1. When a judgment has been rendered against an officer, appointee or employee of the state of Missouri, or any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state, the judgment creditor, or his attorney or agent, may file in the office of the clerk of the court before whom the judgment was rendered, an application setting forth such facts, and that the judgment debtor is employed by the state, or a municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state, with the name of the department of state or the municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state which employs the judgment debtor, and the name of the treasurer, or the name and title of the paying, disbursing or auditing officer of the state, municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state, charged with the duty of payment or audit of such salary, wages, fees or earnings of such employee, and upon the filing of such application the clerk shall issue a writ of sequestration directed to the sheriff or other officer authorized to execute writs in the county in which such paying, disbursing or auditing officer may be found and the sheriff or other officer to whom the writ is directed shall serve a true copy thereof upon such paying, disbursing or auditing officer named therein, which shall have the effect of attaching any and all salary, wages, fees or earnings of the judgment debtor, which are not made exempt by virtue of the exemption statutes of this state and are not in excess of the amount due on the judgment and costs, then due and payable, from the date of the writ to the return day thereof.

2. The paying, disbursing or auditing officer charged with the duty of payment or audit of the salary, wages, fees or earnings of the judgment debtor shall deliver to the sheriff or officer serving the writ the amount, not to exceed the amount due upon the judgment and costs, of the salary, wages, fees or earnings of the judgment debtor not made exempt by virtue of the exemption* statutes of this state, as the same shall become due to the judgment debtor. The paying, disbursing or auditing officer shall pay to the judgment debtor the remaining portion of his salary, wages, fees or earnings, as the same shall become due to the judgment debtor. The sheriff, or officer serving the writ, shall provide to the paying, disbursing or auditing officer along with the writ sufficient information to compute the amount which shall be delivered to the sheriff or officer serving the writ. Neither the state, municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state, nor the paying, disbursing or auditing officer shall be liable for the payment of any amount above the amount delivered to the sheriff or officer serving the writ if the computation of the amount delivered is in accordance with the information provided with the writ.

3. The sheriff or officer serving such writ shall endorse thereon the day and date he received the same, and upon receiving any amount in connection with the writ, shall issue his receipt to such paying, disbursing or auditing officer therefor. All amounts delivered to the sheriff, or officer serving said writ, in connection with the writ, or so much thereof as shall be necessary therefor, shall be applied to the payment of the judgment debt, interest and costs in the same manner as in the case of garnishment under execution. The sheriff or other officer serving the writ shall make his return to the writ showing the manner of serving the same, and he shall be allowed the same fees therefor as provided for levy of execution, and the writ shall be returnable in the same manner as the execution issued out of the court in which the judgment was rendered. Nothing in this section shall deprive the judgment debtor of any exemptions to which he may be entitled under the exemption laws of this state, and the same may be claimed by him to the sheriff or other officer serving the writ at any time on or before the return day of the writ in the manner provided under the exemption laws of this state. It shall be the duty of such sheriff or other officer serving the writ, at the time of the service thereof, to apprise the judgment debtor of his exemption rights, either in person or by registered letter directed to the judgment debtor to his last known address.

(L. 1943 p. 400 1315(a), A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1987 H.B. 517, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)

*Word "exception" appears in original rolls.

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