Types of activities that require DBKK's licences

1. Food Establishment

2. Trade and Business

3. Factories

4. Massages Establishment

5. Hotel

6. Rearing of Poultry and Animals (Dog Licence)

7. Private Markets

8. Advertisement

9. Places of Public Entertainment

10. Hawkers

11. Markets Stalls, Temporory Hawkers Sites and Complexes

12. Stalls on Public Road/Private Land

13. Seasonal Stalls/Festivals

• Obtain an application from (BPP&PK 2/2002 forms) at the Hawkers Management Section counter.
• Complete the form
• Attach required documents
• Submit the form to Hawkers Management Section
• DBKK Officers will check your application form
• Letter will be sent to you to inform whether your application is rejected or approved with conditions.

 For markets stalls, temporary hawker's sites and DBKK's Complexes

• Applicant will be called for an interview when there is a vacant stall.

For hawkers (static/itinerant)

• DBKK's officers will inspect your site/stall
• Letter will be sent to you on the outcome of your application

Itinerant Hawkers

• Not allowed to construct a structure
• Carrying out business using a van/itinerant car
• Not allowed to operate in the non-hawking zone
• Not allowed to trade near markets, schools and road-junctions
• Not allowed to sell raw meat.

Stalls on Private Land

• Must obtain and submit evidence of Landowner's permission
• Development plan including
• Location/Structural plan
• Comment from other relevant department

Stall on Eating Premises

• Shop owner's permission
• No obstruction to human movement flow

Stall on temporary sites complexes & night markets

• Subject to availability of vacant lot
• Successful interview

Seasonal stall

• Restricted Trading Places decide by Hawkers committee

Conditions of elegibility

• Applicant should not be less than 18 years of age, and a Malaysian citizen
• Must be local Sabahan or permanent resident

Conditions of licence

• Up to date payment of Licence Fees
• Non transferable
• Medical examinations if necessary
• Compliance with the relevant By-Laws

Cancellation/withdrawal of licence

• Non-payment of licence fees/rental
• Non-running of business
• Sub-letting
• Non-compliance of instruction/regulations (violation of rules)

Unlicensed trading offence will result in :

Compounded Seizure Court Actions

 PENALTY

If you operate a business (as listed above without a licence, you have committed an offence under the following Kota Kinabalu City Hall's by laws:

• DBKK (Food & eating premises) By-Laws
• DBKK (Massage Establishment) By-Laws.
• DBKK (Markets) By-Laws
• DBKK (Hawkers) By-Laws
• DBKK (Advertisement) By-Laws
• DBKK (Registration & Control of Dogs) By-Laws 1964
• DBKK (Tamus) By-Laws
• DBKK (Laundries) By-Laws
• DBKK (Hotel and lodiging Houses) By-Laws
• DBKK (Dairies & Dairymen) By-Laws
• DBKK (Offensive Trade) By-Laws