MPS warns legal action against errant property own

SEREMBAN: The Seremban Municipal Council (MPS) will take legal action against property owners in the municipality who fail to pay arrears in assessment rate and compound fines.

Its president Datuk Zazali Salehudin said the compound fines were not limited to traffic and parking offences but also unapproved renovation of buildings, unkempt houses, advertisements without permit, keeping dogs without a licence, operating massage parlours without a permit and hawking without a permit.

He said they would be given until this Nov 30 to settle the arrears, failing which action would be taken.

This, he said, would include sealing their properties and auctioning them off.

“Currently, the highest arrears are for assessment rate amounting to RM34.88 million, followed by traffic compounds, which have exceeded RM30 million,” he said, in a statement here today.

He said this year alone, 325 cases had been filed in court for traffic offences and another 180 cases involving other offences.

As for traffic compounds, he said MPS was offering a 50 per cent discount for those who made payments before Dec 31. – BERNAMA

Source: NST