KUALA LUMPUR: City Hall fears the proposed amendments to the law to allow local authorities to conduct scheduled checks on buildings at hillslopes for early detection of underground movement will backfire.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) Civil Engineering and Urban Transportation Department director Abd Hamid Surip said these checks would incur costs and property owners might push the responsibility of ensuring the safety of their surroundings to DBKL.
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