REFERENCE TITLE: return of writ of attachment

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

First Regular Session

2015

 

 

HB 2293

 

Introduced by

Representative Farnsworth E

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 12-1531, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to SPECIAL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS TO ENFORCE CLAIMS OR JUDGMENTS.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 12-1531, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE12-1531.  Return of writ; duties of officer; further return

A.  An officer executing a writ of attachment shall return the writ with his the officer's action endorsed thereon or attached thereto and signed by him, the officer to the court from which it issued within thirty twenty‑five days after the date of the levy.

B.  The return shall describe the property attached with sufficient certainty to identify it and shall state when it was attached and whether any personal property attached still remains in his the officer's custody, and if not, the disposition made of the property.

C.  When personal property has been replevied the officer shall deliver the replevin bond to the clerk or justice to be filed in the action.

D.  When the property levied on is claimed, replevied or sold after the return, the officer shall immediately make a further return to the clerk or justice of the peace showing the disposition of the property. END_STATUTE