Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-5-909 :
Chapter 5. Personnel
Part 9. Teachers' Local Retirement Systems
� 49-5-909. Transfer or assignment; attachment; exemptions
All annuities granted and payable out of the teachers' retirement fund shall be and are exempt from seizure or levy upon attachment, execution, supplemental process and all other process, whether mesne or final. Such annuities or any payment of the same shall not be subject to sale, assignment or transfer by any beneficiary, and such transfer shall be absolutely void.
Last Amended: 1917
1917
1917 Pub.Acts, c. 76, � 8.