Signboard is an important marketing tool in promoting and show up to the public what type of business you are actually running. People first see through your signboard will help them to decide whether it is the services or products that they wanted to find. However, installing a signboard in front of your premise is not just as easy as it do. An individual must ensure that he or she get a signboard license in order to install the signboard legally and in a correct way. Same as business license, obtaining a signage permit is act as a protection to the business owner. A signboard who gain permit from local authority will be install in a safe place and it wouldn't cause any possible incidents or injuries to the public.

To apply for signage license, the first thing that an business owner need to do is to figure out who is the local authority in charge. This can be figure out by the area of the business. For example, if the owner is from Petaling Jaya, then the local authority in charge is MBPJ, Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya. Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya, or MBPJ, is the city council which administers the city of Petaling Jaya in the state of Selangor. After the city had officially a city status on 20 June 2006, the city council is then formed. Their coverage area is around 97 kilometers. The council is open for people stay in Petaling Jaya to apply for business license, signboard license, and also renovation building plan approval.