The right to a retirement annuity, disability annuity, survivors annuity or benefit, death benefit or any other benefit under the provisions hereof by whatever name called, or refund, is personal with the recipient thereof, and the assignment or transfer of the benefit or any part thereof shall be void, except as herein provided. Any such annuity, benefit or refund shall not answer for debts contracted by the person receiving the same, and it is the intention of this section that they shall not be attached or affected by a judicial proceeding.
(1995 Code, § 2.88.290)