RCW 41.20.180
Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exception—Assignability.
The right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or retirement allowance, or disability allowance, or death benefits, or any optional benefit, or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter, and any fund created hereby, and all moneys and investments and income thereof, are exempt from any state, county, municipal, or other local tax, and shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, the operation of bankruptcy or insolvency laws, or other process of law whatsoever, whether the same be in actual possession of the person or be deposited or loaned and shall be unassignable: PROVIDED, That benefits under this chapter shall be payable to a spouse or ex-spouse to the extent expressly provided for in any court decree of dissolution or legal separation or in any court order or court-approved property settlement agreement incident to any court decree of dissolution or legal separation.
[ 2012 c 159 § 19; 1979 ex.s. c 205 § 2; 1965 c 33 § 1.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions
Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.
41.20.010 - Board of trustees—Composition.
41.20.020 - Officers of board—Annual report.
41.20.030 - Meetings—Disbursements of fund—Quorum.
41.20.040 - Additional powers of board.
41.20.050 - Pension on retirement for years of service.
41.20.060 - Pension on retirement for duty connected disability.
41.20.061 - Increase in presently payable benefits for service or disability authorized.
41.20.065 - Pension on retirement for nonduty disability.
41.20.070 - Certificate of disability.
41.20.080 - Pension on death before or after retirement.
41.20.086 - Increase in certain presently payable death benefits authorized.
41.20.090 - Lump sum payment on death before or after retirement.
41.20.100 - Examination of disability pensioners—Emergency duty.
41.20.110 - Withdrawal of pension—Grounds.
41.20.140 - Pension payments monthly—Surplus to general fund.
41.20.150 - Return of member's contributions—Option to be classified as vested member.
41.20.155 - Return of member's contributions—Applicability.
41.20.160 - Credit for membership in private organization acquired by city of first class.
41.20.170 - Transfer of membership.
41.20.180 - Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exception—Assignability.
41.20.900 - Construction—1959 c 6—Benefits retroactively authorized.
41.20.920 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.