---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 3206"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "3206"
heading: "Discharge"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/3206"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 176 — Federal Debt Collection Procedure"
  - "Subchapter C — Postjudgment Remedies"
---

# §3206. Discharge


A [person](/usc/28/3002.md?p=10) who pursuant to an execution or order issued under this chapter by a [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) pays or delivers to the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15), a [United States marshal](/usc/28/3002.md?p=16), or a receiver, money or other personal [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) in which a [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8) [debtor](/usc/28/3002.md?p=4) has or will have an interest, or so pays a [debt](/usc/28/3002.md?p=3) such [person](/usc/28/3002.md?p=10) owes the [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8) [debtor](/usc/28/3002.md?p=4), is discharged from such [debt](/usc/28/3002.md?p=3) to the [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8) [debtor](/usc/28/3002.md?p=4) to the extent of the payment or delivery.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Nov. 29, 1990, and applicable with respect to certain actions for debts owed the United States pending in court on that effective date, see section 3631 of Pub. L. 101–647, set out as a note under section 3001 of this title.