MajlisPerbandaranSubang Jaya or Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) is a local authority which administrates Subang Jaya town and the southern parts of Petaling district. This agency is under Selangor state government. MPSJ are 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. The MPSJ main headquarters is located at USJ 5, UEP Subang Jaya.
Formerly known as Majlis Daerah Petaling (MDP) (Petaling District Council) which was asministrates whole of Petaling Jaya district (except Subang Jaya north area, Petaling Jaya and Subang Jaya) such as Sungai Buloh, Bandar Sri Damansara, Bukit Lanjan, Bandar Utama, Subang, BatuTiga, UEP Subang Jaya, Puchong, Kinrara, Serdang and Seri Kembangan. In 1997, Subang Jaya was granted the status of a minicipality. Local authority was transferred from the MajlisPerbandaranPetaling Jaya (MPPJ) (Petaling Jaya Municipal Council) which administrates Subang Jaya north area to the newly gazetted MajlisPerbandaranSubang Jaya (MPSJ). The MPSJ holds local government authority not only iniSubang Jaya, but USJ, Bandar Sunway, Puchong, Kinrara, Seri Kembangan, and the southern parts of Petaling district.
Before 1963, Shah Alam, known as the Sungai Renggam and an oil palm estate located between Petaling Jaya and Bandar DirajaKlang and is connected through the only highway at that time, the Federal Highway.
The rapid growth of Malaysia since independence in 1957 under the 'Father of Modernisation', Malaysia's second Prime Minister AllahyarhamTun Abdul Razak Hussein. Shah Alam opened in 1963 aims to be the administrative center of Selangor after Kuala Lumpur as a Federal Territory on February 1, 1974. Pleasure of the Sultan of Selangor on the 8th, the late Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj on December 7, 1978, Shah Alam declared a state capital with an area of 41.69 sq km. Shah Alam had experienced some expansion of the area and the last was on January 1, 1997. Through the Gazette Plan 1190, Shah Alam expanded to 293 sq km.
Shah Alam rapid development and growing importance has led to significant upgrades to the declaration as a city on October 10, 2000. This Declaration executed by the Honourable Dato 'Seri Dr MohamadKhir Toyo, Selangor Chief Minister of the 13th. Shah Alam, which is administered by Local Authorities and the Shah Alam Municipal Council since 1978 are automatically awarded the Shah Alam City Council. With a population of 450.000 thousand Shah Alam target population to 700,000 people by 2010 as a result of migration of people across the country in addition to increasing the number of births.