Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · Updated to 31 Dec 2019 · Part II · Streets
Section 40
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
No person shall lay or carry any line of rails, mains, pipes, conduits or electric lines along, through, across, over or under any street or any place laid out or intended for a street within any local authority area without the prior written permission of the local authority which permission may be granted or not at the discretion of the local authority and upon such terms as it thinks fit.
person
“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
Penalty
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit, and the local authority may remove the lines of rails, mains, pipes, conduits or electric lines at his expense.
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;
Terms defined in s 3
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;
person
Defined · s 3“person” includes a company, a partnership, a body of persons and a corporation sole;
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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Drains
Part IV
Back-Lanes
Part V
Buildings
Part VI
Miscellaneous
Part VII