Section 38-5-5 Aid inalienable; cost of hospitalization, medical care, etc., not to constitute a lien on property of recipient. - Alabama Statutes

Section 38-5-5

Aid inalienable; cost of hospitalization, medical care, etc., not to constitute a lien on property of recipient.

All aid given as public assistance for the blind shall be absolutely inalienable by any assignment, sale, attachment, execution or otherwise; and, in case of bankruptcy, the assistance shall not pass through any trustee or other person acting on behalf of creditors. The cost of hospitalization or other medical care or other service furnished by the state or by a county to a recipient of assistance under this chapter shall not constitute a lien upon any real or personal property or personal effects of such recipient.

(Acts 1963, No. 574, p. 1195, §5.)