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33-1127. School equipment The library and philosophical and chemical or other apparatus belonging to a debtor and used for the instruction of youth in any university, college, seminary of learning, or school shall be exempt from execution, attachment or sale on any process issued from any court. 33-1128. Fire fighting equipment All fire engines, hooks and ladders, with the carts, trucks, carriages, hose, buckets, implements and apparatus appertaining thereto, and all furniture and uniforms of any fire company or department organized under any law of this state shall be exempt from execution, attachment or sale on any process issued from any court. 33-1129. Public property or property of a public character All court houses, jails, public offices, buildings, lots, grounds and personal property, the fixtures, furniture, books and papers and appurtenances belonging and pertaining to the jail and public offices belonging to any county or any city of this state and all cemeteries, public squares, parks and places, public buildings, town halls, markets, buildings for the use of fire departments and military organizations, and the lots and grounds thereto belonging and appertaining, owned or held by any town or city or dedicated by such town or city to health, ornament or public use, or for the use of any fire or military company organized under the laws of this state shall be exempt from execution, attachment or sale on any process issued from any court. 33-1130. Tools and equipment used in a commercial activity, trade, business or profession The following tools and equipment of a debtor used in a commercial activity, trade, business or profession shall be exempt from process: 1. The tools, equipment, instruments and books, including telephone numbers, client or customer contact information, or marketing tools, such as websites, domain names or any other intangible work product, in the possession of a debtor or the spouse of a debtor primarily used in, and necessary to carry on or develop, the commercial activity, trade, business or profession of the debtor or the debtor's spouse, not in excess of an aggregate fair market value of five thousand dollars. For the purpose of this paragraph, tools do not include a motor vehicle primarily used by a debtor for personal, family or household purposes such as transportation to and from the debtor's place of employment. 2. Farm machinery, utensils, implements of husbandry, feed, seed, grain and animals not in excess of an aggregate value of two thousand five hundred dollars belonging to a debtor whose primary income is derived from farming. 3. All arms, uniforms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by a debtor. 33-1131. Definition; wages; salary; compensation A. For the purposes of this section, "disposable earnings" means that remaining portion of a debtor's A. For the purposes of this section, "disposable earnings" means that remaining portion of a debtor's wages, salary or compensation for his personal services, including bonuses and commissions, or otherwise, and includes payments pursuant to a pension or retirement program or deferred compensation plan, after deducting from such earnings those amounts required by law to be withheld. B. Except as provided in subsection C, the maximum part of the disposable earnings of a debtor for any workweek which is subject to process may not exceed twenty-five per cent of disposable earnings for that week or the amount by which disposable earnings for that week exceed thirty times the minimum hourly wage prescribed by federal law in effect at the time the earnings are payable, whichever is less. C. The exemptions provided in subsection B do not apply in the case of any order for the support of any person. In such case, one-half of the disposable earnings of a debtor for any pay period is exempt from process. D. The exemptions provided in this section do not apply in the case of any order of any court of bankruptcy under chapter XIII of the federal bankruptcy act or any debt due for any state or federal tax.

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