A.  This Section shall govern the reconsideration and/or judicial review of actions of the secretary under this Subpart, including coastal use permit and local program approval decisions and determinations of state or local concern under La. Rev. Stat. 49:214.30(C)(1) and determinations of direct and significant impact under La. Rev. Stat. 49:214.34.  

B.  A decision or determination shall be subject to reconsideration by the secretary if a petition for reconsideration is filed in writing with the secretary within ten days following public notice of a final coastal use permit or local program approval decision, or receipt of written notice of a determination made under La. Rev. Stat. 49:214.30(C)(1) or La. Rev. Stat. 49:214.34.  The grounds for reconsideration shall be either that:

(1)  The decision or determination is clearly contrary to the law or the evidence before the secretary;

(2)  The petitioner has discovered, since the decision or determination, evidence important to the issues which he could not, with due diligence, have presented to the secretary prior to the decision;

(3)  There is a showing that issues not previously considered, through no fault of the petitioner, ought to be examined in order to properly dispose of the matter; or

(4)  There exist other good grounds for further consideration of the issues and the evidence in the public interest.  

C.  The petition for reconsideration shall set forth the grounds which justify such action.  Nothing in this Section shall prevent the reopening or reconsideration of a decision or determination in accordance with other applicable statutory provisions or at any time on the grounds of fraud, perjured testimony, or fictitious evidence.  The reconsideration shall be limited to those grounds upon which it was granted, and the secretary may adopt regulations for the orderly consideration and disposition of reconsideration petitions.  The secretary shall render a decision upon the reconsideration petition within fifteen days of its receipt.  If a petition for reconsideration is timely filed, the period within which judicial review must be sought shall run from the final disposition of such petition.  The secretary, in the interest of justice, may grant a stay of a decision on a coastal use permit or approval of a local program until the final disposition of a petition for reconsideration.  

D.  Any person authorized by this Subpart to appeal a coastal use permit decision or any local government aggrieved by a final decision on approval of a local program may seek judicial review of that decision whether or not a petition for reconsideration has been filed under this Section.  A preliminary, procedural, or intermediate action by the secretary or a determination of local or state concern under La. Rev. Stat. 49:214.30(C)(1) or of direct and significant impact under La. Rev. Stat. 49:214.34 is immediately reviewable if review of the secretary’s final permit decision or action would not provide an adequate remedy or would inflict irreparable injury.  

E.  Proceedings for review may be instituted by filing a petition in the district court of the parish in which the proposed use is to be situated within thirty days after mailing of notice of the final decision by the secretary or, if a reconsideration is requested, within thirty days after the decision thereon.  

F.  Judicial review shall otherwise be pursuant to the Louisiana Administrative Procedure Act, provided that all such cases shall be tried with preference and priority.  Trial de novo shall be held upon request of any party.  

Acts 1978, No. 361, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1979.  Amended by Acts 1982, No. 813, §1; Acts 1983, No. 705, §4, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 1983, No. 591, §1, eff. July 14, 1983; Acts 1984, No. 408, §1, eff. July 6, 1984.  

{{NOTE:  SEE ACTS 1989, 2D EX. SESS., NO. 6, §7.}}