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The municipal judges of the judicial region where the property is located shall have jurisdiction to take cognizance of the eviction lawsuits when the rate payment owed or the legal claim does not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year. In all other cases, the Court of First Instance of the Judicial Region where the property is located shall take cognizance of the eviction lawsuits. However, under any of the circumstances, the same procedure shall be followed.\nIf the property is located on land that corresponds to two or more judicial regions, the suit may be instituted before any of the respective courts in whose land some portion of the property is located.\nAppearance by the parties, in case competency in this class of trial originally corresponds to a municipal judge, it [sic] may be instituted by the parties summoned on their own right or by the legal representation of the parties.\nHistory —Code Civil Proc., 1933, § 622; Dec. 4, 1998, No. 291, § 1; Sept. 27, 2007, No. 129, § 2.