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Dear Mayor Avra:

This office is in receipt of your recent opinion request in which you inquire as to the steps of recourse to be taken with the former Mayor who allegedly still has keys to the town's properties and continues to use them.

This office is of the opinion that an action for trespass can be taken against the former mayor. Louisiana precedence has stated that, "trespass is the unlawful physical invasion of the property of another." See TerreAux Bouefs Land Co., Inc. v. J.R. Gray Barge Co., 811 So.2d 887. Damages from trespass must be proved by a preponderance of the evidence, and this…