The problem of abandoned vehicles has been around for a long while, and with no provisions in the law to quickly remove and dispose of them, dealing with these eyesores has been a lengthy and tedious process.
In a bid to speed up their removal, a local council has come up with a disposal scheme where vehicle owners can voluntarily surrender their disused vehicle without having to fork out a sen for it.
As The Star reports, the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) has set up a one-stop centre (OSC) for the purpose of handling the disposal of disused vehicles. It said that vehicles that can be surrendered for disposal are cars, motorcycles and bicycles.
According to MPAJ president Dr Ani Ahmad, no fee will be charged for the service, with all that is needed being for the vehicle owner to inform the council that the vehicle was being surrendered voluntarily and to provide the location of the disused vehicle.
“Applications will be processed within 48 hours, after which MPAJ will collect the vehicle,” she said,
adding that the surrendered vehicles would be sent to MPAJ depots. She said that MPAJ would then work with the road transport department (JPJ) and MyEG to handle all the paperwork required for the disposal process.
Ani said MPAJ was the first local authority to undertake such an initiative to tackle the issue. She said tThe move to introduce the scheme was because the local council faced difficulties in dealing with abandoned vehicles, as it had to comply with the law.
“MPAJ must issue a notice and give a grace period for the owner to remove their vehicle before we can proceed with further action. If the owner fails to comply, then we need to obtain a court order to dispose of the vehicle, but this process is costly. With our new initiative, we hope to get owners to cooperate voluntarily,” she said.
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“If the owner fails to comply, then we need to obtain a court order to dispose of the vehicle, but this process is costly.”
Isn’t it mandatory to have a valid insurance and road tax, even if the car is not usable any more, but parked on public space?
Stupid ruling from stupid PH council gomen. Cant use their heads to think, if they could the car even as scrap metal there is still money to gain so which stupid owner will want to dump abandoned cars. These cars are junked bcoz their owners cannot be located, or died, or it was stolen for parts. Resolve those issues then junked cars will be lesser, asking people to dispose for free siapa bodoh macam councilors yang propose idea bodoh ni.
You are muhideen arse licker
No wonder you name your self as Kanasai..
Insurance and road tax is only mandatory if the car is being driven.
This abandoned vehicle issue must be tackled by new laws jointly proposed by transport, environment and any other relevant ministries or else they will just keep piling up.
The problem of these abondaned car’s owner is reluctant to go to municipal to apply the process to dispose their old vehicle. In my taman at least 10-20 abandoned cars left for more than 5 years. No action is taken from any authority. The carplate is there but the road tax was long expired.
Government should set up a rule if the vehicle parked on roadside for over a year where roadtax expired long time, they should fine the car owner. If said 2 years still no response then authority should take action to dispose the abandon vehicle.
bicycles can dispose off. how about electric scooters and wheelchairs?
Great initiative! Hope more municipal council will follow suit.
how to dispose of useless, irrelevant politicians who refuse to retire?
abandon vehicles 4 units, next to TNB station at Jalan Cempaka 14, Ampang (behind Caltex petrol )