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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO GARNISHMENT.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 652-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 repealed.
 
 3      ["§652-14  Receipts to be given by creditor on penalty of
 
 4 forfeiture.  Any creditor collecting money under garnishment
 
 5 process shall furnish duplicate receipts therefor to the
 
 6 garnishee, one of which receipts shall be delivered by the
 
 7 garnishee to the debtor.
 
 8      No portion of any salary or wages withheld or sequestered
 
 9 shall be paid to any creditor unless such duplicate receipts are
 
10 delivered to the person in whose hands the funds are sequestered
 
11 or withheld, and any creditor failing to furnish such duplicate
 
12 receipts shall forfeit any amounts taken without the furnishing
 
13 by the creditor of the duplicate receipts, and the creditor shall
 
14 be personally liable, to debtor, for the amounts."]
 
15      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.  
 
16      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.