Kuala Lumpur City Hall (Malay: Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, DBKL) is the local authority charged with the administration of Kuala Lumpur. It is an agency under the Federal Territories Ministry of Malaysia.
DBKL 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. Executive power lies with the mayor in the city hall, who is appointed for three years by the Federal Territories Minister since local government elections were suspended in 1970. The current mayor of Kuala Lumpur is Ahmad Phesal Talib, who has been in office since July 18, 2012.
The headquarters of DBKL is the Kuala Lumpur City Hall building at Jalan Raja Laut. DBKL has another office building, Menara DBKL 2 Jalan Raja Laut & Menara DBKL 3 at Jalan Raja Abdullah as well as 11 branch offices around KL.
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