SEMANGAT GOTONG ROYONG DAN TANGGUNG JAWAB BERSAMA AKTA STRATA TITLE 663

SEMANGAT GOTONG ROYONG DAN AKTA 663

Gotong-royong sudah menjadi sinonim dengan masyarakat Melayu dan semua warga malaysia. Mereka bergotong-royong untuk kenduri kahwin, membersih  surau apabila bulan Ramadhan menjelang tiba atau bila ada  aktiviti masyarakat . Rasa tanggung jawab bahawa mereka adalah sebahagian dari masyarakat dan setiap ahli masyarakat perlu memainkan peranan masing-masing merupakan di antara aset penting masyarakat Melayu Cina dan India sebagai rakyat Malaysia .

Walau bagaimanapun kadang-kala di kawasan-kawasan bandar atau pinggir-pinggir bandar, amalan ini telah pupus. Bukanlah perlu sangat ahli-ahli masyarakat itu turun bersama-sama bermandi peluh, untuk bertanya khabar di antara satu sama lain pun susah.

Tetapi dengan berkuatkuasanya Akta 663 tahun lepas yang menetapkan bahawa pengurusan sebarang rumah bertingkat sama ada pangsapuri atau kondominium akan akhirnya dilakukan oleh penduduknya sendiri, semangat amalan gotong-royong ini menjadi amat penting.

Dengan akta tersebut, setiap blok atau kawasan perumahan  perlu menubuhkan apa yang dipanggil sebagai Badan Pengurusan Bersama atau Joint Mananagement Board (JMB). JMB akan dianggotai oleh wakil-wakil penduduk dan seorang wakil dari pemaju. Selepas hak milik strata dikeluarkan maka JMB ini akan menjadi Perbadanan Pengurusan atau Management Corporation (MC) yang dikendalikan 100% oleh penduduk.

MC ini bertanggung jawab ke atas pengurusan kawasan kediaman itu. Sama ada untuk memastikan sampah-sampah di sapu, bil-bil elektrik dilunaskan, gaji penyelia  dibayar, , insuran bangunan diambil dan banyak lagi perkara kecil atau besar.

Tetapi perkara ini yang selalunya pembeli-pembeli kediaman bertingkat terlepas pandang. Pada mereka, mereka hanya membeli unit-unit kediaman sahaja. Mereka langsung tidak menyangka bahawa akhirnya bumbung yang bocor, Tangga  yang rosak, lampu taman yang tidak berfungsi, tangka air yang berkarat atau saluran najis dan longkang  yang tersumbat adalah juga tanggung jawab mereka bukan tanggung jawab majlis perbandaran atau kerajaan.

Penduduk bukan hanya bertanggung jawab ke atas unit mereka tetapi seluruh blok atau bangunan yang mereka duduki. Mungkin bukan mereka sebagai individu yang perlu menguruskannya tetapi ini adalah tugas JMB dan MC yang ditubuhkan. JMB dan MC ini pula berhak untuk memungut yuran penyenggaraan dari penduduk dan boleh meminta Pejabat Tanah Dan Galian menyita hartabenda mereka yang gagal membayar.

Mungkin jarang ada permintaan untuk menyita tetapi masalah akan timbul jika terdapat penduduk yang tidak berdisiplin dan menimbulkan kacau ganggu kepada penduduk-penduduk lain. Lebih teruk lagi jika tidak ada penduduk yang bersedia untuk menganggotai JMB atau MC. Maka tidak ada siapa akan menguruskan kediaman itu. Menurut akta, Pesuruhjaya Bangunan atau Commissioner Of Building (COB), selalunya Dato’ Bandaraya atau Yang Dipertua Majlis akan melantik ejen untuk menguruskan bangunan itu tetapi lazimnya harganya akan menjadi lebih mahal dari jika penduduk melantik ejen mereka sendiri.

Maka itu sebabnya semangat gotong-royong ini perlu ada. Walaupun mereka tidak bergotong royong membersihkan blok-blok mereka tetapi semangat tanggung jawab di sebalik konsep gotong royong ini akan menentukan sama ada penduduk akan tinggal di dalam persekitaran yang sempurna.

Saya amat berharap sekiranya pemilik pemilik yang berkemahiran  yang tinggal di kediaman bertingkat seperti Rumah Pangsa dapat memainkan peranan yang lebih untuk memastikan kediaman mereka diuruskan dengan baik. Mungkin bukan untuk tujuan politik semata-mata tetapi sebagai satu perkhidmatan kepada masyarakat yang memerlukan. Memimpin JMB dan MC sebab mereka sudah biasa berpersatuan.

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First meeting of Joint Management Body

First meeting of Joint Management Body

(1) The agenda for the first meeting of the Body shall include the following matters:

	(a) the election of the office bearers of the Committee as provided for in subsection 11(2);
	(b) to confirm the taking over by the Body of insurances effected by the developer;
	(c) subject to subsection 23(2), to determine the amount to be paid by the purchasers to the Building Maintenance Fund for the maintenance and management of the common property of the building;
	(d) the determination of the rate of interest payable by a purchaser in respect of late payment charges; and
	(e)any matter connected with the maintenance and management of the common property of the building.

(2) The quorum of the first meeting of the Body shall be one-quarter of the purchasers who have paid maintenance charges in respect of their parcels to the Building Maintenance Accounts (“members entitled to vote”) of the developer.

(3) If within half an hour after the time appointed for the meeting, a quorum is not present, the members entitled to vote who are present shall constitute a quorum.

(4) All resolutions at the first meeting of the Body shall be decided by a show of hands.

(5) Notwithstanding subsection (4), joint purchasers shall not be entitled to vote except by way of a jointly appointed proxy.

(6) In the event of an equality of votes, the chairman shall have a casting vote.

(7) Where an hour after the time appointed for the meeting, no member entitled to vote turns up or all the members present, for any reason, refuse to be the office bearers of the Committee, the developer shall, within seven days of the date of the meeting, inform the Commissioner of the fact and the Commissioner may –

	(a) appoint a new date for the first meeting of the Body; or
	(b)appoint a managing agent under subsection 25(1) to maintain the common property of the building.

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7. Duty of Body to inform Commissioner of name of Body

(1) The Body shall inform and register with the Commissioner the name of the Body within twenty-eight days of the first meeting.

(2) The Commissioner may, upon an application by the Body, issue a certificate certifying that the Body has been duly constituted under this Act on the day specified in the certificate.

(3) The constitution of the Body under this Act shall not be affected in the event the first meeting is subsequently invalidated, the provision of subsection 6(1) is not complied with or a situation under subsection 6(7) occurs.

8. Duties and powers of Joint Management Body

(1) The duties of the Body include the following:

	(a) to properly maintain the common property and keep it in a state of good and serviceable repair;
	(b) to determine and impose charges that are necessary for the repair and proper maintenance of the common property;
	(c) to insure and keep insured the building to the replacement value of the building against fire and such other risks as may be determined by the Body;
	(d) to apply insurance moneys received by the Body in respect of damage to the building for the rebuilding and reinstatement of that building;
	(e) to comply with any notices or orders given or made by the local authority or any competent public authority requiring the abatement of any nuisance on the common property, or ordering repairs or other work to be done in respect of the common property or other improvements to the property.
	(f) to prepare and maintain a register of all purchasers of the building;
	(g) to ensure that the Building Maintenance Fund is audited and to provide audited financial statements for the information to the purchasers;
	(h) to enforce house rules for the proper maintenance and management of the building; and
	(i) to do such things as may be expedient or necessary for the proper maintenance and management of the building.

(2) The powers of the Body shall include the following:

	(a) to collect from purchasers maintenance and management charges in proportion to the allocated share units of their respective parcels;
	(b) to authorize expenditure for the carrying out of the maintenance and management of the common property;
	(c) to recover from any purchaser any sum expended by the Body in respect of that parcel in complying with any such notices or orders as are referred to under paragraph (1)(e);
	(d) to purchase, hire or otherwise acquire movable or immovable property for use by the purchasers in connection with their enjoyment of the common property;
	(e) to arrange and secure the services of any person or agent to undertake the maintenance and management of the common property of the building;
	(f) to make house rules for the proper maintenance and management of the building; and
	(g) to do all things reasonably necessary for the performance of its duties under this Act.

(3) The Body shall be deemed –
	(a) for the purposes affecting any insurance under paragraph (1)(c), to have an insurable interest in the building equal to its replacement value or any value as determined by the Body; and
	(b) for the purposes of effecting any insurance under paragraph (1)(d), to have an insurable interest in the subject matter of the insurance.
(4) Where the Body incurs any expenditure or performs any repair, work or act that it is required or authorized by or under this Part to do or consequent upon the service on the Body of any notice or order by any local authority or under any other written law, and the expenditure or the repairs, work or act were or was rendered necessary by reason of any willful or negligent act or omission on the part of, or breach of any provision of its by-laws by, any purchaser or his tenant, lessess, licensee or invitee, the amount of that expenditure expended by the Body in performing the repairs, work or act shall be recoverable by the Body from that purchaser.
(5) The generality of this section shall not be prejudiced by any other provision in this Part conferring a power or imposing a duty on the Body.

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9. Annual General Meeting

(1) An annual general meeting of the Body shall be held to consider the Building Maintenance Fund and to transact such other business as may arise.

(2) The annual general meeting shall be held once in each year and not more than fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one annual general meeting and the next.

10. Extraordinary general meeting

(1) A general meeting other than the annual general meeting shall be known as an extraordinary general meeting.

(2) The Body –

	(a) shall convene an extraordinary general meeting upon a requisition in writing made by the purchasers who are together entitled to at least one-quarter of the total number of parcels registered under section 12;
	(b) shall convene an extraordinary general meeting upon receiving a direction in writing from the Commissioner for the transaction of such business as the Commissioner may direct; and
	(c) may convene an extraordinary general meeting on such other occasion as the Body thinks fit.

(3) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that the Body has not been properly constituted, he may authorize in writing any purchaser to convene an extraordinary general meeting for such purposes as may be approved by the Commissioner.

11. Joint Management Committee

(1) The Body shall elect a Joint Management Committee who subject to any restriction imposed or direction given by the Body at a general meeting, may perform the Body’s duties and conduct the Body’s business on its behalf, and may for that purpose exercise any of the Body’s powers.

(2) The Committee shall consist of the developer and not less than five and not more than twelve purchasers, who shall be elected at the annual general meeting of the Body and shall hold office for a period not exceeding three years or until the dissolution of the Body in accordance with section 15, whichever is earlier.

(3) From among the members of the Committee elected under subsection (2), there shall be elected a chairman, a secretary and a treasurer.

(4) The provisions of the First Schedule shall apply to the Committee.

(5) The State Authority may amend the First Schedule by order published in the Gazette.

KOLEKSI BERITA DAN MASAALAH PENUBUHAN JMB (FIKIR FIKIRKANLAH)

Penduduk tidak jelas tunggakan, mesyuarat ditangguh 23 Mac
15/03/2008 Utusan Malaysia

AMPANG Hasrat penduduk Pangsapuri Riveria 2, di sini, untuk menubuhkan Badan Pengurusan Bersama (JMB) tidak kesampaian apabila kebanyakan daripada mereka masih belum menjelaskan tunggakan sehingga 31 Januari lalu.

Antara syarat yang membolehkan penduduk menjadi jawatankuasa dalam JMB ialah mereka perlu menjelaskan semua tunggakan yang ada.

Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Teratai, Jenice Lee, berkata, masalah tersebut timbul kerana penduduk tidak mendapat maklumat yang tepat tentang syarat-syarat yang diperlukan bagi membolehkan mereka menubuhkan JMB.

"Penduduk juga ada menyuarakan masalah tentang tidak puas hati dengan pemaju yang tidak menjalankan perkhidmatan dengan baik.

"Namun, untuk mengelakkan pertelingkahan yang lebih buruk berlaku, saya telah meminta supaya pemaju melanjutkan tarikh mesyuarat penubuhan JMB kepada satu tarikh yang sesuai, sehingga penduduk menjelaskan tunggakan mereka," katanya ketika dihubungi, di sini, hari ini.

Jenice juga telah meminta penduduk supaya menjelaskan tunggakan yang ada supaya mereka layak menjadi jawatankuasa dalam JMB.

Menurut beliau, JMB iaitu satu badan yang terdiri daripada pembeli dan pemaju yang bertanggungjawab untuk menyelenggara dan menguruskan harta bersama.

"JMB akan diberi kuasa untuk membuat apa sahaja keputusan berkaitan pengurusan bangunan dan adalah penting untuk penduduk yang membuat keputusan itu sendiri berbanding melantik syarikat lain.

"Saya berharap penduduk dan pemaju akan sepakat dalam membuat keputusan untuk kebaikan kedua-dua belah pihak," katanya.

Jenice memberitahu tarikh untuk mengadakan mesyuarat penubuhan JMB telah ditetapkan pada 23 Mac ini.

 DIPETIK DARI NATIONAL HOUSE BUYERS ASSOCIATION