§ 5230. Executions. (a) Form. An execution shall specify the date\nthat the judgment or order was entered, the court in which it was\nentered, the amount of the judgment or order, the applicable interest\nrate and the date as of which the new interest rate applies if the\ninterest rate for consumer debt pursuant to section five thousand four\nof this chapter applies and the amount due thereon and it shall specify\nthe names of the parties in whose favor and against whom the judgment or\norder was entered. If the applicable interest rate changes pursuant to\nsection five thousand four of this chapter while an execution is\nongoing, the judgment creditor shall issue an amended execution within\nsixty days of the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two\nthousand twenty-one which amended this subdivision, effective as of the\ndate of the rate change. An execution shall direct that only the\nproperty in which a named judgment debtor or obligor who is not deceased\nhas an interest, or the debts owed to the named judgment debtor or\nobligor, be levied upon or sold thereunder and shall specify the last\nknown address of that judgment debtor or obligor. Except in cases when\nthe state of New York, or any of its agencies or municipal corporations\nis the judgment creditor, or if the debt enforced is for child support,\nspousal support, maintenance or alimony, provided that in those\ninstances the execution contains a legend at the top thereof, above the\ncaption, in sixteen point bold type with the following language: "The\njudgment creditor is the state of New York, or any of its agencies or\nmunicipal corporations, AND/OR the debt enforced is for child support,\nspousal support, maintenance or alimony.", an execution notice shall\nstate that, pursuant to subdivision (l) of section fifty-two hundred\nfive of this article, two thousand five hundred dollars of an account\ncontaining direct deposit or electronic payments reasonably identifiable\nas statutorily exempt payments, as defined in paragraph two of\nsubdivision (l) of section fifty-two hundred five of this article, is\nexempt from execution and that the garnishee cannot levy upon or\nrestrain two thousand five hundred dollars in such an account. Except in\ncases when the state of New York, or any of its agencies or municipal\ncorporations is the judgment creditor, or if the debt enforced is for\nchild support, spousal support, maintenance or alimony, provided that in\nthose instances the execution contains a legend at the top thereof,\nabove the caption, in sixteen point bold type with the following\nlanguage: "The judgment creditor is the state of New York, or any of its\nagencies or municipal corporations, AND/OR the debt enforced is for\nchild support, spousal support, maintenance or alimony.", an execution\nnotice shall likewise state that pursuant to subdivision (i) of section\nfifty-two hundred twenty-two of this article, an execution shall not\napply to an amount equal to or less than ninety percent of the greater\nof two hundred forty times the federal minimum hourly wage prescribed in\nthe Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 or two hundred forty times the\nstate minimum hourly wage prescribed in section six hundred fifty-two of\nthe labor law as in effect at the time the earnings are payable, except\nsuch part as a court determines to be unnecessary for the reasonable\nrequirements of the judgment debtor and his or her dependents. Where the\njudgment or order was entered in a court other than the supreme, county\nor a family court, the execution shall also specify the date on which a\ntranscript of the judgment or order was filed with the clerk of the\ncounty in which the judgment was entered. Where jurisdiction in the\naction was based upon a levy upon property or debt pursuant to an order\nof attachment, the execution shall also state that fact, describe all\nproperty and debts levied upon, and direct that only such property and\ndebts be sold thereunder. Where
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