Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part II · Streets
4. Maintenance and repair of public streets
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
The local authority shall, so far as the funds at its disposal will admit, cause all public streets together with the footways thereof, whether covered by arcades or not, to be maintained and repaired and may—
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;
cause the same to be paved, metalled, flagged, channelled, drained, kerbed, lighted or otherwise improved, and the surface thereof to be raised, lowered or altered as it thinks fit;
make and keep in repair any footways for the use of foot passengers in any such street;
place on the sides of such footways or otherwise such fences and posts as are needed for the protection of foot passengers;
provide street lighting.
Boundary stones
The local authority may set up or affix to any premises abutting on a public street, boundary stones or other marks to denote the length, width and alignment of such street.
premises
“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;
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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;
Penalty
Any person who removes, defaces or injures any stone or mark set up in accordance with this Act shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit.
person
“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
Owner or occupier to protect boundary stones
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;
The owner and occupier of any premises in or against or to which such stone or mark is set up or affixed shall protect the same.
occupier
“occupier” means the person in actual occupation of the land or building in respect of which the word is used, or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;
The expense of replacing any such stone or mark shall be paid by the occupier or, if the premises are unoccupied, by the owner, and shall be recoverable in the manner hereinafter provided.
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;
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;
occupier
Defined · s 3“occupier” means the person in actual occupation of the land or building in respect of which the word is used, or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;
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;
person
Defined · s 3“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
premises
Defined · s 3“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;
public street
Defined · s 3“public street” means any street over which the public has a right of way which was usually repaired or maintained by the local authority before the coming into operation of this Act or which has been transferred to or has become vested in the local authority under this Act or in any other manner;
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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