Discharge of garnishee's obligation · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 6204. Discharge of garnishee's obligation. A person who, pursuant to an order of attachment, pays or delivers to the sheriff money or other personal property in which a defendant has or will have an interest, or so pays a debt he owes the defendant, is discharged from his obligation to the defendant to the extent of the payment or delivery.
A person who, under an attachment order, pays or delivers to the sheriff money or other personal property in which the defendant has or will have an interest, or pays the sheriff a debt owed to the defendant, is released from the obligation to the defendant to the extent paid or delivered. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Clerk: Civil Practice Law and Rules; Volume 1 — Your Career: Civil Practice in Plain English.