The Petaling Jaya City Council ( Malay : Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya , abbreviated MBPJ ) is the city council which administers the city of Petaling Jaya in the state of Selangor , Malaysia . This council was established after the city was officially granted city status on 20 June 2006. Their jurisdiction covers an area of 97.2 square kilometres.
9-497: The council consists of the mayor plus twenty-four councillors appointed to serve a one-year term by the Selangor State Government. MBPJ is responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure. In the early 1950s, Kuala Lumpur experienced congestion as
18-462: A Council legislation draft and forming policies to be implemented by the departments. Since 1977, the Municipal & city has been led by four mayors. The previous and incumbent mayors are listed as below: Twenty-one councillors were sworn in on 18 January 2024, while the other four vacancies were filled on 30 April 2024. The Petaling Jaya City Council is subdivided into twenty-four zones that cover
27-667: A mayor. Councillors are appointed by the Selangor State Executive Council. The Mayor is an officer of the Federal Government appointed by the state administration after obtaining the consent of the Menteri Besar. A mayor works full-time, assisted by a Deputy Mayor and Head of the Departments in setting and implementing the vision, mission, quality policy, objectives and activities of the council. The Council approved
36-653: A result of a rapid population growth and squatters existing in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. To overcome this problem, the State Government identified "Effingham Estate", a 1,200-acre rubber plantation in Jalan Klang Lama to create a new settlement known as Petaling Jaya. The party entrusted to govern the new settlement was the District Officer of the Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya Board before being taken over by
45-625: A statutory body, namely the Petaling Jaya Town Authority at the end of 1954. Petaling Jaya made history on 1 January 1964 when the Selangor State Government gazetted a Township Board with financial autonomy to govern the city. On 1 January 1977, Petaling Jaya Town Authority was upgraded to the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MPPJ), pursuant to the Local Government Act 1976 by the government. On 20 June 2006,
54-523: The Petaling Jaya Municipal Council was upgraded as the Petaling Jaya City Council. Now, the administrative area of MBPJ is 97.2 square kilometres which is rapidly growing. Petaling Jaya has a total population of over 619,925 people and the number of property holding of 217,930. Petaling Jaya is now known as the leading growth centre in Selangor. The City Council consists of 24 councillors led by
63-478: The addressing format for locations in Petaling Jaya. No. 15, Jalan SS20/6, SS20, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor This system would point to house number xx, 5th street, SS20, Petaling Jaya. This would remove the need to have an additional address line for the housing estate name (in this example, Taman Subang) like most addresses used for the rest of the country. The city sections are numbered as such that
72-485: The entire authority. Each zone comprises the different sections of Petaling Jaya . List of Petaling Jaya city sections Petaling Jaya is divided into several sections . Some sections themselves are subdivided into smaller neighbourhoods ( kejiranan ), for example SS5D. Some sections have their own names (SS1 is Kampung Tunku), while other sections are grouped together (SS4, SS5, SS6, and SS7 are part of Kelana Jaya ). These sections names are used in
81-536: The older sections have no prefixes to their section number (Section 1, Section 9) while later sections have prefixes such as SS (Sungei Way-Subang), PJS (Petaling Jaya Selatan) and PJU (Petaling Jaya Utara). Note: The missing neighbourhood between SS11 and SS20 (SS12 until SS19), are within Subang Jaya which is under the jurisdiction of the Subang Jaya City Council . (*) Note: PJU9 ( Bandar Sri Damansara )
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