Which department is in charge of lightning rods?

Legal analysis: Generally speaking, lightning rod is a part of the ancillary facilities of the building and belongs to the owner's property, which should be effectively managed. If there is no property, the owners' committee should be able to manage.

Legal basis: Meteorological Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 2 This Law shall be observed when engaging in meteorological exploration, forecasting, service, meteorological disaster prevention, utilization of climatic resources, and meteorological scientific and technological research in People's Republic of China (PRC) and other sea areas under the jurisdiction of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 3 Meteorological undertakings are basic public welfare undertakings for economic construction, national defense construction, social development and people's lives, and meteorological work should focus on public welfare meteorological services.

The people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the leadership and coordination of meteorological work, incorporate meteorological undertakings into the national economic and social development plans and financial budgets at the central and local levels, and ensure that they give full play to their functions of serving the public, government decision-making and economic development. Local meteorological projects built by local people's governments at or above the county level according to the needs of local social and economic development are mainly borne by the finance at the corresponding level.

Meteorological offices and stations can carry out paid meteorological services according to law on the premise of ensuring free public meteorological services.

Article 4 Meteorological offices and stations subordinate to the competent meteorological departments of counties and cities shall take agricultural production as the main service object, and provide timely and proactive public welfare meteorological information services needed to ensure local agricultural production.

Article 5 The competent meteorological department of the State Council shall be in charge of meteorological work throughout the country. Local competent meteorological departments at various levels shall be responsible for meteorological work within their respective administrative areas under the leadership of the competent meteorological departments at higher levels and the people's governments at the corresponding levels.

Meteorological offices and stations belonging to other relevant departments of the State Council and other relevant departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall accept the guidance, supervision and industry management of their meteorological work by the competent meteorological departments at the same level.