In cases where a disaster has occurred or is likely to occur, when the mayor of a municipality finds it particularly necessary for protecting people's lives and bodies from a disaster or for preventing the spread of a disaster, the mayor may give instructions to evacuate to take refuge to the residents, etc. for whom evacuation for refuge is found necessary in an area where evacuation for taking refuge is found necessary.
In cases where the mayor of a municipality finds it necessary for giving instructions for evacuation to take refuge pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the mayor may give instructions indicating the designated emergency evacuation site or other evacuation sites as points to take refuge.
前項の規定により避難のための立退きを指示する場合において、必要があると認めるときは、市町村長は、その立退き先として指定緊急避難場所その他の避難場所を指示することができる。
In cases where a disaster has occurred or is imminent, when the mayor of a municipality finds that evacuation for taking refuge is likely to rather put the lives or bodies of people at risk and finds urgency in light of the situation, the mayor may give instructions to the residents, etc. for whom these measures are found necessary in an area where these measures are found necessary to move to heights, take refuge in sturdy buildings nearby, retreat to a place inside a building away from openings facing the outdoors, or take other urgent measures to ensure safety (hereinafter referred to as "urgent measures to ensure safety").
When the mayor of a municipality, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), has instructed evacuation for taking refuge, has specified the point to take refuge, or, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, has instructed urgent measures to ensure safety, the mayor must promptly report to the prefectural governor to that effect.
When there is no longer the need for evacuation, the mayor of a municipality must immediately make a public notice to that effect. The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to this case.
市町村長は、避難の必要がなくなつたときは、直ちに、その旨を公示しなければならない。前項の規定は、この場合について準用する。
In cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture has occurred, when a municipality is unable to perform all or the majority of its affairs because of the occurrence of the disaster, the prefectural governor must implement on behalf of the mayor of the municipality all or a part of the measures to be implemented by the mayor of the municipality pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) and the first sentence of the preceding paragraph.
都道府県知事は、当該都道府県の地域に係る災害が発生した場合において、当該災害の発生により市町村がその全部又は大部分の事務を行うことができなくなつたときは、当該市町村の市町村長が第一項から第三項まで及び前項前段の規定により実施すべき措置の全部又は一部を当該市町村長に代わつて実施しなければならない。
When the prefectural governor has begun or completed the implementation of affairs on behalf of the mayor of the municipality pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the governor must make a public notice to that effect.
都道府県知事は、前項の規定により市町村長の事務の代行を開始し、又は終了したときは、その旨を公示しなければならない。
Necessary matters related to the prefectural governor in acting on behalf of the mayor of the municipality under paragraph (6) are prescribed by Cabinet Order.
第六項の規定による都道府県知事の代行に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。
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disastermachine translation
「災害」
Damage caused by a storm, tornado, heavy rain or snow, flood, slope failure, debris flow, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, soil liquefaction, volcanic eruption, landslide or other abnormal natural phenomenon, or by a large fire or explosion or another cause that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as causing damage on a similar scale.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
residents, etc.machine translation
「居住者等」
Residents (居住者), people staying in the area (滞在者) and others.
Short name set inArticle 33-2, paragraph (1), item (i)
urgent measures to ensure safetymachine translation
「緊急安全確保措置」
Urgent steps to keep safe, such as moving to higher ground, sheltering in a sturdy building nearby or keeping away from openings to the outside inside a building, which the mayor of a municipality may instruct residents and others to take when leaving to evacuate would itself put their lives or bodies at risk.
Short name set inArticle 60, paragraph (3)