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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3462"
article_number: "3462"
status: active
heading: "Interruption by filing of action or by service of process"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XXIV › Chapter 2 › Section 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110485"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1982, No. 187, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Acts 2025, No. 250, §1."
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  - act_year: 1982
    act_number: 187
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1983-01-01
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 2025
    act_number: 250
    section: 1
    role: amendment
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# Art. 3462. Interruption by filing of action or by service of process

Unless otherwise expressly provided by legislation, prescription is interrupted when the owner commences action against the possessor, or when the obligee commences action against the obligor, in a court of competent jurisdiction and venue. If action is commenced in an incompetent court, or in an improper venue, prescription is interrupted only as to a defendant served by process within the prescriptive period. If an action is commenced in a competent court of improper venue, prescription is suspended for a period of seven days as to a defendant not served by process within the prescriptive period.