Parish of St. Charles Ex Rel. Department of Planning & Zoning v. Fontenot

|tI respectfully dissent. In my view, La. R.S. 9:5625 governs and the trial judge properly sustained the Parish’s exception of prescription insofar as the alleged use violations.

La. R.S. 9:5625(A)(1) and (3) provides:

A. (1) All actions civil or criminal, created by statute, ordinance, or otherwise, except those actions created for the purpose of amortization of nonconforming signs and billboards enacted in conformity with the provisions of R.S. 33:4722, which may be brought by parishes, municipalities, or their instrumentalities or by any person, firm, or corporation to require enforcement of…