Seremban Municipal Council

Seremban Municipal Council
Majlis Perbandaran Seremban
MPSNS
Agency overview
Formed 1897
Preceding agencies
  • 1. Health Board
    (Leambaga Kesihatan)
  • 2. Seremban Town Council
    (Majlis Bandaran Seremban)
Jurisdiction Negeri Sembilan State Government
Headquarters Wisma Perbandaran Seremban, Jalan Yam Tuan, 70990 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.
Motto Seremban : Designing Cities For People
Annual budget MYR
Agency executive
  • Datuk Zazali Bin Salahudin, Yang DiPertua
Website www.mpsns.gov.my

Seremban Municipal Council (Malay: Majlis Perbandaran Seremban, abbreviated MPSNS) is a local authority in Malaysia which administers Seremban town and surrounding areas such as Senawang, Rasah, Mambau, Seremban 2, Seremban 3, Bandar Ainsdale, Bandar Sri Sendayan, Sikamat, Ampangan and Paroi. This agency is under the Negeri Sembilan State Government. MPSNS are 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. The MPSNS main headquarters is located at Jalan Yamtuan in Seremban town. The council is expected to have a name change to Seremban City Council (Majlis Bandaraya Seremban) [1][2][3][4] in January 2019 once Seremban is officially declared as a city. This will also include the merging of Nilai Municipal Council (Majlis Perbandaran Nilai) into Seremban Municipal Council.

History

For more information, refer to Seremban, History

President of Seremban Municipal Council

From 1954, the Council was led by a President who was in office on a yearly basis, occasionally sitting for more than a year. On 23 July 1965, the head of the Council was handed over to the current Menteri Besar at the time. [5]

NumberNameStart Of TermEnd of Term
1YM Tunku Mustapha19541956
2Jaafar bin Tahar19571958
3Tham Tat Ming19591959
4Robert Singam19601960
5Lam Teck Choon19611961
6Chin See Yin19621962
7Gumam Singh Gill19631964
8Lai Pong Yuen196522 July 1965

Following the Local Governments Act 1976 (Akta Kerajaan Tempatan 1976), the head of the Council was referred to as Yang DiPertua. The trend of the Council was headed by the sitting Menteri Besar was overturned in 1998 where the head of the Council was an independent individual. [6]

NumberNameStart Of TermEnd of Term
1YAB Dato' Rais Bin Yatim19781982
2YAB Dato' Seri Utama Tan Sri Hj Mohd Isa Bin Dato` Hj Abdul Samad198231 Julai 1998
3Dato' Haji Hassani @ Hassan Bin Mohd. Zain1 August 19987 July 2003
4Dato' Mohd Jaafar Bin Mohd Atan1 August 200315 August 2004
5Dato' Haji Abdul Halim Bin Abdul Latif1 September 200431 July 2018
6Datuk Zazali Salahudin1 August 2018Incumbent

Departments

The Council is made up of 14 department as follows. [7]

NumberDepartment
1Building Control Department (Jabatan Kawalan Bangunan)
2Finance Department (Jabatan Kewangan)
3Engineering Dpertmant (Jabatan Kejuruteraan)
4Services Management Department (Jabatan Khidmat Pengurusan)
5Jabatan Komuniti Dan Perhubungan Awam (Jabatan Komuniti Dan Perhubungan Awam)
6Licensing and Cleaning Department (Jabatan Pelesenan dan Pembersihan)
7Valuation and Property Department (Jabatan Penilaian dan Hartanah)
8Development Planning Department (Jabatan Perancangan Pembangunan)
9Department of Parks and Landscape (Jabatan Taman Dan Landskap)
10Department of Information Technology and Communication (Jabatan Teknologi Maklumat Dan Komunikasi)
11Law and Enforcement Department (Jabatan Undang-Undang dan Penguatkuasaan)
12Internal Audit Unit (Unit Audit Dalaman)
13Building Commissioner Unit (Unit Pesuruhjaya Bangunan)
14Local Center Unit (Unit Pusat Setempat)

Organisation Chart

The organisation chart of the Council can be found in the Council's official website. [8]

See also

References

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