§5827. Suspension and extension of prescription and peremption; 2016 flooding disaster

            In accordance with Executive Orders JBE 2016-53, 57, and 66, all prescriptive periods, including liberative, acquisitive, and the prescription of nonuse, and all peremptive periods were suspended or extended for a period beginning August 12, 2016, and ending September 30, 2016. To the extent that any prescriptive period or peremptive period would have run on or before September 30, 2017, but for the suspension or extension of the period pursuant to the Executive Orders JBE 2016-53, 57, and 66, the prescriptive or peremptive period will be deemed to have run upon the earlier of: (1) the date calculated pursuant to Civil Code Article 3472 or (2) September 30, 2017. The suspension and extension of prescriptive periods and peremptive periods contained in Executive Orders JBE 2016-53, 57, and 66 shall not apply to any prescriptive period or peremptive period accruing on or after October 1, 2017.

            Acts 2017, No. 186, §1, eff. June 12, 2017.