§ 701.510.Property Levied On Not Subject to Be Sold

Sale is the ordinary next step once property has been levied on, and § 701.510 states that as the general rule: the levying officer sells everything that's been levied upon. Two other provisions carve out exceptions — § 687.020 and § 701.520, the latter of which redirects certain intangible property to collection instead of sale.

Two built-in limits apply even to property that will eventually be sold. Tangible personal property cannot be sold until the officer has physical custody of it, which matters most for property still in a third person's possession under a levy method like § 700.040. And cash cannot be sold at all unless it's worth more than its face value — a rule aimed at collectible or rare currency rather than ordinary money, which the officer applies directly toward the judgment instead.