Accused of overzealous enforcement of signboards, DBKL says merely ensuring businesses comply with by-laws

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 — The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) today explained that its recent enforcement operations against signboard licensing violations around the city aimed at...

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In a statement, DBKL said that this includes the Advertisement By-Laws 1982 and the Local Government Act 1976, which among others require that all business signboards/advertisements must be in the national language, though they may also include other languages in accordance with the role of the Malay language as the national language.

In addition, it said DBKL is also responsible for processing and approving signboard applications for business premises, which are part of the composite licence, a licence that is approved along with the business premises licence. “Among them are premises that have a business licence but do not have approval for a signboard, which may be slapped with compound fines and removal of the signboards.

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