Civil - Rol N° C-28059-2011

El 22° Juzgado Civil de Santiago acogió la demanda de prescripción extintiva de deuda por patente municipal, declarando prescritos cobros por $7.143.562 correspondientes a periodos de 2008, debido a la inacción judicial de la Municipalidad de Providencia.

• Plaintiff ASESORÍAS, INVERSIONES E INMOBILIARIA MARTINEZ Y PINTO LIMITADA sought to declare the extinctive prescription of municipal patent collection actions by the ILUSTRE MUNICIPALIDAD DE PROVIDENCIA.
• The debt in question pertains to municipal patent fees for the first and second semesters of 2008.
• The plaintiff argued that prescription applied because the Municipality had not initiated judicial collection efforts for the debt.
• The plaintiff invoked Articles 2517, 2521, and 2523 of the Civil Code to support the claim of extinctive prescription.
• The Municipality partially accepted the prescription for the period July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, but opposed prescription for the second semester of 2008.
• The Municipality's opposition was based on the argument that the patent paym...