Amounts payable under the plan to a participant or beneficiary shall be paid only to him or her and upon his or her personal receipt (except in the case of a minor or other person under legal disability as provided in § 33.161) unless such amounts are payable to an alternate payee on or after January 1, 1985, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in I.R.C. § 414(p). No benefit payable under the provisions hereof shall otherwise be assigned or alienated or be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or charge. Any attempt to so anticipate, alienate, sell, transfer, assign, pledge, encumber or charge shall be void. Nor shall the Fund be in any manner liable for or subject to the debts, contracts, liabilities, engagements or torts of the person entitled to any benefit payment.
(Ord. MET 86-13, passed 5-30-1986)