Supreme Court allows retrospective local law challenges by prosecutors after July 15, 2000, despite non-retroactivity principles.

The Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision dismissing a prosecutor's complaint against a local zoning plan. While the lower court argued the new statutory provision allowing unlimited challenge time could not apply retroactively, the Supreme Court held that the act being challenged remains valid and normative at the time of the complaint. The court reasoned that the purpose of the complaint is to verify current legality, not to alter past facts, thus permitting the new rule to apply to acts predating the statutory change.