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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61738</law_id><section_number>34-3</section_number><catch_line>Articles not exempt from taxes or levies or for their purchase price</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="34">Homestead and Other Exemptions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">exemptions</span> under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exemption created" href="/34-4/">34-4</a>, <a class="law" title="Additional exemption for certain veterans" href="/34-4.1/">34-4.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Poor debtor's exemption; exempt articles enumerated" href="/34-26/">34-26</a>, <a class="law" title="Additional articles exempted to householder engaged in agriculture" href="/34-27/">34-27</a>, <a class="law" title="Maximum portion of disposable earnings subject to garnishment" href="/34-29/">34-29</a>, and <a class="law" title="Homestead allowance" href="/64.2-311/">64.2-311</a> shall not extend to distress or <span class="dictionary">lien</span> for state or local taxes or levies, nor to <span class="dictionary">levy</span>, distress, or <span class="dictionary">lien</span> for the purchase price of any articles claimed as <span class="dictionary">exempt</span> or any part of the price thereof nor for fines and <span class="dictionary">damages</span> or either arising from trespass by animals under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Damages for trespass by animals; punitive and double damages" href="/55.1-2810/">55.1-2810</a> as to such animal so trespassing. If an article purchased and not paid for is exchanged or converted into other property of the debtor, such property shall not be <span class="dictionary">exempt</span> from payment of the unpaid purchase money <span class="dictionary">debt</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 6563; 1990, c. 942; 1996, c. 323.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
