Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the claim for provisional construction contributions was time-barred by prescription or forfeiture.
Decisione estratta
No applicable prescription period could be derived to bar the municipality's claim for construction contributions under the Ticino water law framework.
Motivazione estratta
The court held that the LALIA regulates prescription of instalments and legal mortgage enforcement, but not a time limit for imposing construction contributions. The exclusion of the improvement-contribution act was deliberate, and the long-term, global financing of sewer networks differs from single public works; therefore no arbitrary denial of prescription was shown.