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The City Council of Penang Island or ''Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang'' (MBPP) is a local authority which administers the city of George Town and Penang Island. This agency is under Penang state government. The City Council of Penang Island (MBPP) is responsible for urban planning, heritage preservation, public health, sanitation, waste management, traffic management, environmental protection, building control, social and economic development, and general maintenance of urban infrastructure. The City Council of Penang Island (MBPP) headquarters is located at the City Hall, George Town, which had served as the seat of the City Council of George Town until 1976. The City Council also has an office in Komtar, George Town. ==History== A committee of assessors was established in George Town in 1800 and was the first local authority established in Malaya. In 1857, local government in George Town was placed in the hands of five municipal commissioners, three of whom were elected by taxpayers. The elections were abolished in 1913. In 1951, the British colonial authorities reintroduced local elections of nine of the fifteen municipal commissioners for George Town, the first municipal council in Malaya to do so. By 1956, George Town had become the first municipality in the Malaya to have a fully elected council. On 1 January 1957, George Town became a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, becoming the first city in the Federation of Malaya, and the only city in Malaysia (other than Singapore between 1963 and 1965) until 1972, when Kuala Lumpur was granted city status. The first Mayor of George Town was D. S. Ramanathan (Labour). In 1965, the Malaysian federal government suspended local elections as a result of the Indonesian Confrontation. The George Town City Council was at the time the richest local authority in the country, with annual revenue almost double that of the Penang state government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Saravanamuttu ) 〕 In response to allegations of maladministration and misconduct, a Royal Commission of Enquiry was set up by the federal government under Senator Athi Nahappan, while the functions of the City Council were temporarily transferred to the Chief Minister of Penang. The Royal Commission recommended the restoration of elected local councils. However, this was never carried out. The remaining local authorities in Penang, including the Penang Rural District Council, were taken over by the Penang state government in 1971.〔Goh Ban Lee, ''Report of the Local Elections Working Group'', 20 April 1999〕 Following the passing of the Local Government Act 1976, which provided for non-elected local councils, local councils in Penang were permanently merged into the two municipal councils, Penang Island (''Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang'') and Province Wellesley (''Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Perai''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penang Island City Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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