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[CITE: 28USC3206]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
             CHAPTER 176--FEDERAL DEBT COLLECTION PROCEDURE
 
                   SUBCHAPTER C--POSTJUDGMENT REMEDIES
 
Sec. 3206. Discharge

    A person who pursuant to an execution or order issued under this 
chapter by a court pays or delivers to the United States, a United 
States marshal, or a receiver, money or other personal property in which 
a judgment debtor has or will have an interest, or so pays a debt such 
person owes the judgment debtor, is discharged from such debt to the 
judgment debtor to the extent of the payment or delivery.

(Added Pub. L. 101-647, title XXXVI, Sec. 3611, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 
4959.)
