CODE OF VIRGINIA

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES EXEMPTED TO HOUSEHOLDER ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURE (§ 34-27)

If the householder be at the time actually engaged in the business of
agriculture, there shall also be exempt from such levy or distress, while he is
so engaged, to be selected by him or his agent, the following articles, or so
many thereof as he may have, to wit: a pair of horses or mules unless he selects
or has selected a horse or mule under § 34-26, in which case he shall be
entitled to select under this section only one, with the necessary gearing, one
wagon or cart, one tractor, not exceeding in value $ 3,000, two plows, one drag,
one harvest cradle, one pitchfork, one rake, two iron wedges and fertilizer and
fertilizer material not exceeding in value $ 1,000. It shall not be required
that a householder designate any property exempt under this section in a deed in
order to secure such exemption.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 6533; 1932, p. 324; 1956, c. 637; 1970, c. 428; 1977, c.
496; 1993, c. 150.