Alabama Code Title 45. Local Laws § 45-49A-81.07

Directions to the trustee for payments provided herein shall be signed by the regular constituted authorities of the City of Prichard, Alabama. The trustee shall be protected in acting upon any direction delivered to it which upon its face appears to be genuine. No portion of the pension and relief funds shall, before or after its order for distribution be seized or held or be in anywise subject to garnishment or levy or execution or attachment issued out of or by any court of this state or any other state, so far as the same may be sought to respond to the payment or satisfaction of any debt, demand, damage, claim, judgment, or decree against any beneficiary in such fund, but shall be totally exempt therefrom.