Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1905 – Exemption from execution
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1905
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Employee: means any person who is employed as a permanent employee of a parish who works at least twenty-eight hours a week and whose compensation is paid wholly or partly by said parish, but excluding all persons employed by a parish or city school board, and all persons eligible for any other public retirement system in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1902
- Employer: means any parish in the state of Louisiana, except Orleans and East Baton Rouge Parishes, or the police jury or any other governing body of a parish which employs and pays persons serving the parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1902
- Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
The following items are hereby exempt from any state or municipal tax and from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment, or any other process whatsoever as provided in this Chapter, except as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 11:292: the right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance, or to the return of contributions, the pension, annuity, or retirement allowance itself, any optional benefit or any other right accrued or accruing to any person, and the moneys in various funds created by this Chapter. These enumerated items shall be unassignable, except as in this Chapter specifically otherwise provided. Benefits paid under this Chapter shall be exempt from state income tax. If the contributions of an employee are paid by an employer in order to secure credit for service, these funds may be assigned to the employer until such time as the employee has repaid contributions so paid or the employer has released the contributions so paid by written notice to the board.
Acts 1979, No. 765, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Acts 1986, No. 767, §5; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 33:6105 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2010, No. 634, §1, eff. July 1, 2010.