Section 15-301 - Definitions.
§ 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.
[An. Code 1957, art. 8, §§ 6, 9; 1975, ch. 49, § 3; 2010, ch. 611, § 2.]