Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part II · Streets
26. Local authority may put up lamp posts and lamps
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The local authority may cause lamp irons, lamp posts or other lighting apparatus to be put up or fixed upon or against the walls or palisades of any building or enclosure, doing as little damage as is practicable thereto, or to be put up or erected in such other manner within any street, road or place as it deems proper and may cause such number of lamps of such sizes and sorts to be provided and affixed and put on such lamp irons and lamp posts as are necessary for lighting all
local authority
“local authority” means any city council, municipal council, town council, town board, local council, rural board or similar local authority established by written law and in relation to the Federal Territory means the Commissioner of the City of Kuala Lumpur appointed under section 3 of the Federal Capital Act 1960;
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street
“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, service road, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, and also the way over any bridge, and also includes any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public have a right of way over it or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of such street;
or any of such streets, roads and places and cause the same to be lighted during such hours as are necessary.
Troughs and pipes to be fixed
The owner of every house or building shall, within twenty-one days after the service of notice from the local authority to that effect, put up and keep in good condition proper troughs, gutters and pipes for receiving and carrying the water from the roof and other part of such house or building and for discharging the same in such manner as the local authority may direct so that it shall not fall upon persons passing along the street or enter any sewer.
owner
“owner” means— (a) the registered proprietor of the land; (b) the lessee of a lease including a sub-lessee of the land whether registered or not; (c) the agent or trustee of any of the owners described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this definition if in the opinion of Street, Drainage and Building 15 a local authority any of those persons cannot be traced or, if any of those persons has died, his legal personal representative; (d) the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver or who would receive the same if such premises were let to a tenant;
If the notice is not complied with the local authority at any time after the expiration of the time so specified may cause the work to be done and the cost and expenses of so doing shall be paid to the local authority by the owner in default.
Terms defined in s 3
building
Defined · s 3“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure support or foundation connected to the foregoing;
house
Defined · s 3“house” includes dwelling-house, warehouse, office, countinghouse, shop, school, and any other building in which persons are employed;
local authority
Defined · s 3“local authority” means any city council, municipal council, town council, town board, local council, rural board or similar local authority established by written law and in relation to the Federal Territory means the Commissioner of the City of Kuala Lumpur appointed under section 3 of the Federal Capital Act 1960;
owner
Defined · s 3“owner” means— (a) the registered proprietor of the land; (b) the lessee of a lease including a sub-lessee of the land whether registered or not; (c) the agent or trustee of any of the owners described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this definition if in the opinion of Street, Drainage and Building 15 a local authority any of those persons cannot be traced or, if any of those persons has died, his legal personal representative; (d) the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver or who would receive the same if such premises were let to a tenant;
sewer
Defined · s 3“sewer” has the same meaning assigned to it under the *Water Services Industry Act 2006;
street
Defined · s 3“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, service road, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, and also the way over any bridge, and also includes any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public have a right of way over it or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of such street;
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