11-716. NOTICE OF GARNISHMENT — DISCHARGE OF GARNISHEE. Any person who has been served with a copy of the writ and notice as provided in sections 8-506, 11-706, 11-707, 11-709, 11-710 and 11-715, Idaho Code, shall be deemed a garnishee, and service of copy of writ and the notice therein provided for, shall, for the purpose of sections 11-708, 11-711, 11-716, 11-719 through 11-727, 11-730 and 11-731, Idaho Code, be deemed to be notice of garnishment, and whenever any person shall have been served with notice of garnishment as herein defined, he may discharge himself by paying or delivering to the officer all debts owing by him to the judgment debtor, or a portion thereof sufficient to discharge the claim of the judgment creditor, or any or all money of the judgment debtor in his hands to a similar amount, taking a receipt therefor from the officer, that shall discharge such person from any and all liability to the extent of such payment, and that shall be held by the officer subject to the orders of the court out of which the writ issued.
History:
[11-716, added 2017, ch. 303, sec. 9, p. 810.]